by Martin Allen
29 F. Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries (London, 1982), entry 22 March 1935.
30 Doc. No. RG226 T253, Roll 59, Notes 26 March 1935 – National Archives, Washington DC.
31 David Irving, Goebbels (London, 1996), p.201.
32 Doc. No. RG226 T253, Roll 59, Fm 1500066 – National Archives, Washington DC.
33 Ibid.
34 Doc. No. Folder I, Memo 21 November 1937 – Lord Halifax Papers, Borthwick Institute, York.
35 Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (London, 1981), p.211.
36 Hitler’s Table Talk, op. cit., p.202.
37 James Douglas-Hamilton, Motive for a Mission (London, 1971), p.54.
38 Robert Rhodes James (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon (London, 1957), pp.185–6.
39 Andreas Mayor (ed.), Ciano’s Diary 1937–38 (London, 1952), pp.44–5.
40 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. I, ‘The Hossbach Memorandum’, pp.29–30.
41 Martin Allen, Hidden Agenda (London, 2000), p.66.
42 ‘The Hossbach Memorandum’, op. cit.
43 Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth about Rudolf Hess, op. cit., pp.94–9.
44 Ibid.
45 HMSO, The International Military Tribunal: Trial of German Major War Criminals (HMSO, 1946–51), Vol. 38, pp.172–3.
CHAPTER TWO – PEACEABLE ATTEMPTS
1 Doc. No. FO 371/24408 – Public Records Office, Kew.
2 Author’s conversation with Joachim von Ribbentrop’s former Private Secretary, Herr Reinhardt Spitzy, 14 May 2001.
3 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. VIII, Doc. No. 384.
4 Schwarzwäller, op. cit., p.123.
5 HMSO, Documents on German–Polish Relations, Doc. No. 120, Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939).
6 Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (London, 1970), p. 165.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. VIII, ‘Dahlerus Memorandum’, pp.140–5.
10 Ibid.
11 William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (London, 1964), p.772.
12 Völkischer Beobachter, 7 October 1939.
13 Shirer, op. cit., pp.773–5.
14 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Rhodes James (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, op. cit., p.210.
19 Ibid, p.222.
20 Doc. No. FO 371/24405 – Public Records Office, Kew.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 André Brissaud, Histoire de Service Secret Nazi (Paris, 1972), p.239.
24 Ibid, p.241.
25 Doc. No. FO 371/23107 – Public Records Office, Kew.
26 Ibid.
27 Brissaud, op. cit., p.244.
28 Ibid, p.249.
29 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
30 Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano’s Diary (London, 1947), Vol. II, p.455.
31 Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth about Rudolf Hess, op. cit., p.203.
32 For further details concerning the Duke of Windsor/Bedaux relationship, and events at this time, see Allen, op. cit., Chapters 2 and 4.
33 Doc. No. 10505–27, Military Intelligence Division, US National Archive, Washington DC.
34 Dossier No. 100–49901, FBI Archive, Washington DC.
35 Ibid.
36 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. VIII, Doc. No. 203.
37 Ibid., Doc. No. 235.
38 Allen, op. cit., pp.148–52.
39 Doc. No. WO 202/3/25A – Public Records Office, Kew.
40 Doc. No. FO 371/28741 – Public Records Office, Kew.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid. Extract from British Intelligence Report of 21 February 1940: ‘Saw Walbach [British agent in Germany’s Hague Embassy] again this evening. He informed me that Bedeaux [sic] is visiting Z[ech]-B[urkesroda – German Ambassador in The Hague] on an almost fortnightly basis…W[albach] has had an opportunity to see the transcribed information that B[edaux] brings verbally, and says it is of the best quality – defence material, strengths, weaknesses, and so on. There is little doubt from what W[albach] has told me that B[edaux]’s source is with the B.E.F., for he was recently in London to attend an A[llied] W[ar] C[ouncil] meeting.’
43 Ibid. Extracts from British Intelligence Report of 4 April 1940: ‘W[albach] has said the Z[ech] B[urkesroda] accidentally referred to B[edaux]’s source as “Willi”, and thinks this might be part of the man’s name. Also Z-B has on more than one occasion hinted that B[edaux]’s source is an important person with the BEF!!.
B[edaux] should be stopped.’ ‘Willi’ was the German code-name for Edward, the Duke of Windsor.
44 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. IX, Docs No. 378, 456.
45 Rhodes James (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, op. cit., p.252.
46 Doc. No. FO 797/19 – Public Records Office, Kew.
47 Doc. No. B15/B002545 – Bundesarchiv, Koblenz.
48 Walther Schellenberg, Memoirs (London, 1956).
49 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. X, Doc. No. B15/B002655.
50 Ibid, Doc. No. 152.
51 Josef Wulf, Die SS (Bonn, 1956).
52 Allen, op. cit., p.277.
53 Doc. No. FO 371/24408 – Public Records Office, Kew.
54 Ibid.
55 Ibid.
56 Doc. No. FO 837/593 – Public Records Office, Kew.
CHAPTER THREE – FLAG-WAVING
1 Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint and John Pritchard, Total War (Harmondsworth, 1972), pp.140–1.
2 ‘The British Act [of bombing German civilian targets], though a logical development of their strategy, was itself a retaliation for bombs dropped on London on 24 August. The German pilot concerned had dropped them against orders.’ A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (Oxford, 1965), p.499.
3 Doc. No. FO 371/24408 – Public Records Office, Kew.
4 B.H. Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War (London, 1970), p.150.
5 F.W. Winterbotham, The Nazi Connection (London, 1978), p.151.
6 Doc. No. FO 837/593 – Public Records Office, Kew.
7 Doc. No. FO 371/24408 – Public Records Office, Kew.
8 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 12.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Doc. No. RG226 T542, Roll 59 – National Archives, Washington DC.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 12.
20 Ibid., Doc. No. 46 (C109/C002188–89).
21 John Harris, Hess: The British Conspiracy (London, 1999), p.249.
22 F.H. Hinsley et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War (HMSO, 1979), Vol. I, p.49.
23 Nigel West, Secret War (London, 1992), p.12.
24 Ibid, p.14.
25 Ben Pimlott, Hugh Dalton (London, 1985), p.305.
26 Gilbert, op. cit., p.153.
27 Dr Michael Stenton, Radio London and Resistance to Occupied Europe (Oxford, 2000), p.7.
28 Bruce Lockhart Diaries, 15 June 1940, House of Lords Library.
29 Sefton Delmar, Black Boomerang (London, 1962), p.37.
30 Doc. No. FO 898/0009 – Public Records Office, Kew.
31 Ibid.
32 Doc. No. FO 837/593 – Public Records Office, Kew.
33 Doc. No. FO 898/0009 – Public Records Office, Kew.
CHAPTER FOUR – NEGOTIATION
1 Doc. No. FO 371/55672 – Public Records Office, Kew.
2 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 76 (Enclosure 1).
3 Ibid.
4 Doc. No. C109
D002194 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, London.
5 File No. NKVD 20566/24.10.42 – The KGB Archive, Moscow.
6 Ibid.
7 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 103.
8 Doc. No. C3084D613500 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, London.
9. Doc. No. C3084D613511 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, London.
10 Cabinet note 06.05.40 – The Halifax Papers, Borthwick Institute, York.
11 Ibid.
12 Doc. No. FO 371/26991 – Public Records Office, Kew.
13 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
14 Doc. No. FO 371/26945 – Public Records Office, Kew.
15 David Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill (London, 1999), pp.52–96.
16 Ibid, p.96.
17 Ibid, p.107.
18 Doc. No. FO 371/26991 – Public Records Office, Kew.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Doc. No. F5/0458–0462 – Auswärtiges Amt, Bonn.
22 Doc. No. FO 898/00009 – Public Records Office, Kew.
23 Doc. No. FO 371/26199 – Public Records Office, Kew.
24 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Doc. No. FO 645, Box 155 – Imperial War Museum, London.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Gita Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth (New York, 1995), p.242.
32 Doc. No. FO 645, Box 155 – Imperial War Museum, London
33 Roy Conyers-Nesbit, Failed to Return (Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1988), p.63.
34 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 532.
35 Andrew Roberts, Holy Fox (London, 1991), p.273.
36 Who’s Who (London, 2000).
37 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
38 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
39 Ibid.
40 Doc. No. FO C109 002203 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, London.
41 David Irving, Hess: The Missing Years (London, 1987), p.97.
42 James Leasor, Rudolf Hess: The Uninvited Envoy (London, 1962), pp.73–81.
43 Nesbit, op. cit., p.63.
44 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
45 Doc. No. FO 371/26145 – Public Records Office, Kew.
46 Roberts, op. cit., p.267.
47 Ibid.
48 Doc. No. FO 898/306 – Public Records Office, Kew.
49 Doc. No. FO 898/14 – Public Records Office, Kew.
50 Who’s Who (London, 2000).
51 Wolf Rüdiger Hess, op. cit., pp.185–6.
52 Ibid.
CHAPTER FIVE – A TENSE SPRING
1 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
2 Winston Churchill, The Second World War (London, 1952), Vol. III, p.86.
3 Ibid, p.91.
4 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
5 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No. 680.
6 Ibid, Doc. No. 93.
7 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
8 Ibid.
9 William Shirer, The Nightmare Years (Boston, 1964), p.407.
10 Doc. No. FO 794/19 – Public Records Office, Kew.
11 Documenti Diplomatici Italiani, 1939–43, Ser. 9, Vol. I, Lequio to Miny, 14 March 1941.
12 Doc. No. FO 645, Box 155 – Imperial War Museum, London.
13 Churchill, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 169.
14 Ibid, p.170.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid, p.191.
18 Ibid, p.207.
19 Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1939–45 (London, 1967), p.149.
20 Memorandum by D. Lloyd George, 11 September 1940 – Liddell Hart Papers, Kings College, London.
21 Peter Padfield, Hess: Flight for the Führer (London, 1991), p.168.
22 Who’s Who (London, 2000).
23 Churchill, op. cit., Vol. III, p.197.
24 Oliver Harvey’s Diary, entries 17–18 April 1941 – British Library, London.
25 Nicolson Diaries, op. cit., pp. 162–3.
26 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
27 Padfield, op. cit., p.177.
CHAPTER SIX – SOMEONE IS EXPECTED
1 Nesbit, op. cit., p.63.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Doc. No. FO 371/26971 – Public Records Office, Kew.
5 Doc. No. FO 371/26945 – Public Records Office, Kew.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XII, Doc. No. 422.
9 Doc. No. FO 371/26945 – Public Records Office, Kew.
10 Ibid.
11 Doc. No. FO 898/14 – Public Records Office, Kew.
12 Ladislas Farago, The Game of Foxes (London, 1956), p. 100.
13 F.W. Winterbotham, Secret and Personal (London, 1969), p.81.
14 Audrey Whiting, The Kents (London, 1985) p.97.
15 Professor Scott Newton Profits of Peace (Oxford, 1996), p.153.
16 Ibid., p.142.
17 Doc. No. FO 371/26542 – Public Records Office, Kew.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Doc. No. FO 898/14 – Public Records Office, Kew.
21 File No. FO 645, Box 155 – Imperial War Museum, London.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Doc. No. RG 319 IRR00887 – National Archives, Washington DC.
25 Doc. No. FO 898/14 – Public Records Office, Kew.
26 Ibid.
27 Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth about Rudolf Hess, op. cit., p.195.
28 Klaus Scholder, Die Mittwochs-Gesellschaft. Protokolle aus dem geistigen Deutschland 1932 bis 1944 (Berlin, 1982), p.79.
29 Ibid.
30 Doc. No. 1504/371076 23.6.40 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, London.
31 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XII, Doc. No. 500.
32 Karl Haushofer interviewed by E. Mann, Glasgow Evening Citizen (1945); Padfield, op. cit., p.179.
33 Doc. No. FO 645, Box 155 – Imperial War Museum, London.
34 Churchill, op. cit., Vol. III, p.53.
35 Ilse Hess, op. cit.
36 Geheime Staatspolizei Records: Questioning of Gunther Sorof and Franz Lutz, 22 May 1941. Located at Archiv RSHA Protokolle, Institute für Zeitgeschicht, Munich.
37 Ibid.
38 Ibid.
39 Adolf Hitler (ed. R. Roussy de Sales), My New Order (London, 1942), pp.754–65.
40 Ibid.
41 Irving, Hess: The Missing Years, op. cit., p.64.
42 Ivan Maisky’s Memoirs, p.637, quoting Byorn Prytz, Swedish Ambassador, 30 April 1941.
43 Schwarzwäller, op. cit., p.218.
44 Doc. No. RG266 XL22853 – National Archives, Washington DC.
45 A. Jacobsen, Karl Haushofer (Boppard, 1979), p.508.
46 Stars and Stripes, January 1946.
47 L. Picknett, C. Prince, S. Prior and R. Brydon, Double Standards (London, 2001), p.286.
48 Rhodes James (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, op. cit., p.302.
49 Michael Smith, Station X (London, 1998), p.72.
50 Doc. No. WO 190/893 – Public Records Office, Kew.
51 Churchill, op. cit., Vol. III, pp.51–2.
52 Rhodes James (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, op. cit., pp.302–3.
53 Ibid.
54 Ibid., pp.303–4.
55 Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook (London, 1992), p.328.
56 Kenneth Young (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (London, 1980), p.97.
57 Hitler’s Table Talk, op. cit., p.7.
58 HMSO, Documents on German Foreign Policy, Ser. D, Vol. XI, Doc. No
. 532.
59 Hitlers politisches Testament. Die Bormann-Diktat vom February & April 1945 (Hamburg, 1988)
60 J. and S. Poole, Who Financed Hitler? (London, 1979), p. 100.
61 Ibid.
62 Padfield, op. cit., p.191.
CHAPTER SEVEN – AN EMISSARY COMES
1 Doc. No. FO 898/00009 – Public Records Office, Kew.
2 Young (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, op. cit., Vol. II, p.98.
3 Doc. No. FO 898/00009 – Public Records Office, Kew.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Doc. No. FO 898/14 – Public Records Office, Kew.
8 Pimlott, op. cit., p.325.
9 Bruce Lockhart Diaries, entry 8 August 1941, House of Lords Library, London.
10 Picknett, Prince, Prior and Brydon, op. cit., p. 177.
11 Ibid.
12 Wolf Rüdiger Hess, op. cit., p.17
13 Ibid, p.18.
14 Laurie Brettingham, Beam Benders No. 80 (Signals) Wing 1940–45 (Midland Publishing, 1997), p. 17.
15 Doc. No. FO 1093/11 – Public Records Office, Kew.
16 Ibid.
17 Doc. No. Bundle 5011, Hamilton Papers/28.03.41 – Public Records Office, Scotland.
18 Doc. No. Bundle 5011, Hamilton Papers/18.04.41 – Public Records Office, Scotland.
19 Leasor, op. cit., p.59.
20 Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth about Rudolf Hess, op. cit., p.63.
21 F.H. Hinsley, British Intelligence During the Second World War (HMSO, 1979), Vol. I, p.553.
22 Ibid., p.557.
23 Brettingham, op. cit.
24 Hansard (House of Commons), Vol. 371, col. 1591, 22 May 1941.
25 Picknett, Prince, Prior and Brydon, op. cit., p. 186.
26 Andrew Rosthorn, Sunday Telegraph, 21 February 1999.
27 Ilse Hess, England (Druffel Verlag, 1955), p.34.
28 Picknett, Prince, Prior and Brydon, op. cit., pp.268–9.
29 Stafford, op. cit., p.96.
30 Picknett, Prince, Prior and Brydon, op. cit., p.269.
31 Churchill, op. cit., Vol. III, p.51.
32 Daily Record, 18 May 1941.
33 Doc. No. WO 199/3288A – Public Records Office, Kew.
34 Douglas-Hamilton, Motive for a Mission, op. cit., p.283.
35 Doc. No. AIR 41/46 – Public Records Office, Kew.
36 Daniel McBride, in Hong Kong Telegraph, 6 March 1947.
37 Doc. No. KV 235 17.5.41 – Public Records Office, Kew.
38 Ibid.
39 Doc. No. FO 1093/11 30.5.41 – Public Records Office, Kew.
40 Ibid.
41 Glasgow Herald, 16 May 1941.
42 Padfield, op. cit., p.354.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.