Authors: Roger Moorhouse
Tags: #History, #General, #Europe, #Western, #Germany
4
Michael Bloch,
Ribbentrop
(London, 1992), p. 219.
5
Chamberlain speech to the House of Commons, 31 March 1939, quoted in William Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(London, 1964), p. 554.
6
Ewan Butler, “I Talked of Plan to Kill Hitler,” in
The Times
, 6 August 1969, p. 1.
7
E. T. Williams and H. Palmer (eds.),
The Dictionary of National Biography 1951–60
(Oxford, 1971), p. 712.
8
Quoted in Ewan Butler,
Mason-Mac
(London, 1972), p. 74.
9
E. L. Woodward and R. Butler,
Documents of British Foreign Policy
[hereafter DBFP], Series 3, Vol. IV, Appendix V, p. 623; Ogilvie-Forbes to Strang, 29 March 1939.
10
See Heinrich Hoffmann,
Ein Volk ehrt seinen Führer
(Berlin, 1939), reproduced in Cowdery and Cowdery,
Masters of Ceremony
(Rapid City, SD, 1998), p. 119.
11
Butler,
Mason-Mac
, p. 75.
12
DBFP, 3, IV, Appx V, Mason-Macfarlane Memorandum, p. 626.
13
Imperial War Museum Archive, Mason-Macfarlane papers, ref: MM40.
14
See, for instance, Anthony Cave Brown,
The Secret Servant: The Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill’s Spymaster
(London, 1987), p. 195.
15
See Stephenson’s entry in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Vol. 52 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 513–14.
16
See, for example, H. Montgomery Hyde,
The Quiet Canadian
(London, 1962), p. 8, and William Stephenson,
A Man Called Intrepid
(London, 1976), p. 38.
17
Quoted in Cave Brown, op. cit., p. 195.
18
Quoted in the
Times
, 6 August 1969, p. 9.
19
Nigel West,
MI6 British Secret Intelligence Operations 1909–45
(London, 1983), p. 38.
20
Christopher Andrew,
Secret Service
(London, 1987), p. 408.
21
Quoted in Alan Judd,
The Quest for C
(London, 1999), p. 470.
22
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
(London, 1990), p. 32.
23
Andrew Cook,
On His Majesty’s Secret Service: Sidney Reilly
(London, 2002), pp. 127, 131.
24
Anthony Read and David Fisher,
Colonel Z—The Life and Times of a Master of Spies
(London, 1984), p. 12.
25
Ibid., p. 276.
26
Quoted in Roy Jenkins,
Churchill
(London, 2001), p. 567.
27
George Orwell, “The Lion and the Unicorn,” from
Orwell and Politics
(London, 2001), p. 104.
28
Ben Pimlott (ed.),
The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton: 1940–45
(London, 1987), p. 67.
29
Quoted in M. R. D. Foot,
SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940–46
(London, 1984), p. 19.
30
David Stafford,
Churchill and the Secret Service
(New York, 1998), pp. 187–88.
31
Killing Hitler
, BBC Television, 2003.
32
Stephen Dorril,
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations
(London, 2000), p. 377.
33
Quoted in Russell Miller,
Behind the Lines
(London, 2002), p. 3.
34
Ibid., p. 12.
35
M. R. D. Foot,
SOE in France
(London, 2004), p. 79.
36
The Goebbels Diaries (London, 1948), p. 65, 28 February 1942.
37
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 214.
38
David Stafford,
Britain and European Resistance, 1940–45
(London, 1980), p. 35.
39
Stafford,
Churchill
, p. 240.
40
Ibid., p. 241.
41
Callum MacDonald,
The Killing of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
(London, 1990), p. 121.
42
Quoted in ibid., p. 156.
43
Quoted in ibid., p. 160.
44
Stafford,
Churchill
, p. 241.
45
See Anthony Head, “The Tragedy of Lidice,” in
History Today
, June 2002.
46
William Mackenzie,
The Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940–45
(London, 2000), p. 319.
47
Ralf Reuth (ed.),
Joseph Goebbels Tagebücher 1924–1945
, Vol. IV (Munich, 1992), p. 1815.
48
Quoted in John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976), p. 712.
49
N. Cameron and R. H. Stevens (trans.),
Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944
(London, 1953), p. 512.
50
Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
, 2nd edition (New York, 2000), p. 119.
51
Anthony Verrier,
Assassination in Algiers
(London, 1990), p. 246.
52
National Archive (London) [hereafter NA], HS8/199, Minutes of SOE council meeting, 22 June 1943.
53
NA, HS6/272, File No. 240, correspondence from 5 August 1943 and 22 October 1943.
54
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 366.
55
For more on the Kreipe kidnapping, see W. Stanley Moss,
Ill Met by Moonlight
(London, 1950), or Antony Beevor,
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
(London, 1991).
56
NA, HS5/728, report by Major Leigh Fermor.
57
Quoted in Vera Rule, “An English Odysseus,” in
The Independent on Sunday
, 9 November 2003.
58
Moss, op. cit., p. 180.
59
NA, HS6/823, HS8/886, HS8/887, Operation Boykin, planning, report, and interrogation.
60
On Operation Flipper, see, for example, Michael Asher,
Get Rommel
(London, 2004).
61
Interview with Professor M. R. D. Foot, formerly the SAS officer responsible for planning the kidnap mission, 25 February 2004.
62
David Irving,
The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel
(London, 1977), p. 379.
63
Aarhus Stiftstidende
, 17.11.1944, with thanks to Anders Thygesen.
64
Charles Cruickshank,
SOE in Scandinavia
(Oxford, 1986), pp. 18–19.
65
NA, HS6/674, Operation Chalgrove correspondence, 27 January 1945.
66
Quoted in Miller, op. cit., p. 23.
67
See Foot,
SOE
, pp. 248–49.
68
Geoffrey Household,
Rogue Male
(London, 1939), p. 15.
69
Ibid., pp. 16–17.
70
Ibid., p. 17.
71
Ibid., p. 18.
72
Ibid., p. 192.
73
Geoffrey Household,
Against the Wind
(London, 1958), p. 98.
74
Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 28 (Oxford, 2004), p. 292.
75
Household,
Wind
, p. 94.
76
Richard Meinertzhagen,
Middle East Diary 1917–1956
(London, 1959), p. 179.
77
Ibid., p. 149.
78
Ibid., pp. 159–60.
79
NA, AIR20/2081, Stevenson to Douglas, 13 July 1940.
80
Albert Speer, op. cit., p. 246.
81
NA, AIR16/619, Harris to Douglas, 21 February 1941.
82
NA, AIR16/619, Harris to Douglas, 7 March 1941.
83
NA, AIR16/619, Harris to Douglas, 18 March 1941.
84
Hans Baur,
Ich flog Mächtige der Erde
(Kempten, 1956), translated by Edward Fitzgerald as
Hitler’s Pilot
(London, 1958).
85
C. G. Sweeting,
Hitler’s Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur
(Washington, DC, 2000), p. 148.
86
See, for instance, Peter Padfield,
Hess: The Führer’s Disciple
(London, 1991).
87
NA, HS6/623, Gubbins to Ismay, 20 June 1944.
88
Julian Amery,
Approach March
(London, 1973), p. 240.
89
Hoffmann, op. cit., pp. xx-xxxiii.
90
Ibid., pp. 118–22.
91
NA, HS6/623, p. 64.
92
Quoted in Denis Rigden,
Kill the Führer: Section X and Operation Foxley
(London, 1999), p. 50.
93
The file has been reproduced as
Operation Foxley: The British Plan to Kill Hitler
(London, 1998).
94
Interview with Professor M. R. D. Foot, who knew Joll from his SOE days and claimed to have recognized his writing style in the Foxley file. A file in the National Archive in London (HS9/806/2) confirms that Joll was indeed seconded to Section X in the autumn of 1943.