Hitler's Spy Chief (42 page)

2
Hoehne, op. cit. chapter 1

3
Peter von Gephardt,
Stammbaum der Familie Canaris
, privately printed, Berlin 1938 Canaris papers

4
K. H. Abshagen,
Canaris
, p. 33, Stuttgart 1948

5
See Morgenthau,
Secrets of the Bosporous
1918

6
Wiedenfeld,
Die Bagdhadbahn
, p. 19 1911

7
P. Rohrbach in
Die Bagdhadbahn
, 1902

8
Gottlieb, op. cit. p. 24

9
Grey,
Twenty Five Years
, p. 20, 1923

Chapter Four

1
Lord Home,
Letters to a Grandson
, p. 18, London 1983

2
U 128 War Diary, 29 November 1918, BAA

3
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 60

4
Allfrey, op. cit. p. xvi

5
Störmer quoted Allfrey, op. cit. p. xvii

6
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 63ff

7
Abshagen, op. cit. pp. 51?7

8
Author interview with Inge Haag, 26 March 2004

9
Philip Noel-Baker,
The Private Manufacture of Armaments
, p. 379ff, London 1936

10
BA/MA OKM/20

11
Kelly, op. cit. chapter 3

12
PRO 5559 HE 396300

Chapter Five

1
Diaries of Captain Thomas Troubridge R.N. 1936-39, IWM

2
Hoehne, op. cit. pp. 137?9

3
Allfrey, op. cit. p. 252

4
Author interview with Inge Haag, 24 March 2004

5
ibid.

6
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 321

7
Troubridge, op. cit.

8
Deacon op. cit. chapter 22; see also Colvin, op. cit. p. 2off

9
Hoffmann, unpublished diaries, Chile

10
Colvin, op. cit. p. 23

11
ibid.

12
ibid. p. 47ff

13
Colvin, op. cit. p. 26

14
ibid

15
Gerhard Henke, Bericht und Errinerungen eines Ic
Die Nachhut
15 November 1967

16
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 205ff

17
Oscar Reile,
Geheime Westfront
, p. 47, Munich 1962

18
Leverkuen, op. cit. p. 200

19
Abshagen, op. cit. p. 109

20
See Reinhard Spitzy,
How we Squandered the Reich
, London 1995

21
See Willi Grosse,
Die Juden Stern
, private papers

22
von Hassell,
Diaries
, p. 26, London 1948

23
Lahousen, Allied interrogation KV 2 173, October 1945, IWT and PRO

24
Abshagen, op. cit. pp. 107?123

25
Lahousen, PRO KV 2 173

26
John Wheeler-Bennett,
The Nemesis of Power
, p. 333ff, London 1954

Chapter Six

1
Hilaire Belloc, ‘The Salvation of Spain', in
Places
, London 1942

2
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 34

3
Dieckhoff, Series 3, volume 11, p. 9 AA Archives

4
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 223

5
See for example the latest writings of John Keegan

6
Faber du Faur, Series 3, volume 11, p. 11 AA Archives

7
Noel-Baker, op. cit. Craven to Spear, 14 March 1934

8
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 221

9
Colvin, op. cit. p. 35

10
Brissaud, op.cit. p. 43

11
ibid, p 38

12
Peter Kemp,
The Thorns of Memory
, p. 76

13
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 44ff

14
ibid, p. 100

15
Brian Crozier,
Franco
, p. 156, London 1967

16
Merkes, Series 3, volume 11, AA Archives

17
See Stille deposition IfZ

18
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 97

19
ibid. p. 98

20
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 231

21
Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, p. 191ff, New York 1994

22
ibid. p. 189ff

23
Hossbach Memorandum, quoted Brissaud, op. cit. p. 91

Chapter Seven

1
PRO KV2/173

2
ibid. p. 182ff

3
Colvin, op. cit. p. 39

4
Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit. p. 179

5
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 234

6
ibid. p. 234

7
ibid. p. 240

8
Colvin, op. cit. p. 43

9
ibid. p. 41

10
Otto Skorzeny,
Meine Kommando Unternehmen
, p. 90, Munich 1975

11
Colvin, op. cit. p. 43

12
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 106

13
PRO KV2/173

14
PRO KV2/173

15
Colvin, op. cit. p. 46

16
Allfrey, op. cit. p. 253

17
Buchheit, op. cit. p. 191

18
See Hossbach,
Zwischen Wehrmacht und Hitler 1934-38
, p. 186ff, Hannover 1949; for a translation of the Hossbach memorandum see ‘Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-45', Series D I 29-39

19
Colvin, op. cit. p. 45

20
NC/18/1/1026 30 October 1937

21
CAB 23/90 43 (37) 24 November 1937

22
ibid.

23
Orme Sargent, quoted by Lord Home in
Letters to a Grandson
, p. 37, London 1983

24
Allied interrogation of Colonel-General Jodl, October 1945, text in IfZ

25
See G.E.R. Gedye,
Fallen Bastions
, London 1939

26
Karl Bartz,
die Tragödie der Deutschen Abwehrs
, p. 10ff, Salzburg 1955; Colvin, op. cit. p. 50

27
Padfield,
Himmler
, p. 232ff, London 1995

28
Colvin, op. cit. p. 57

29
ibid. p. 60

30
For the bizarre story of Lord Rothermere and Hohenlohe see Martha Shad,
Hitler's Spionin
, Munich 2002

31
Roberts,
The Holy Fox
, p. 203, London 1991

32
Beck, quoted in Hoehne, op. cit. p. 216ff

33
ibid.

34
Schad, op. cit. p. 38

35
Colvin, op. cit. p. 62

36
Wheeler-Bennett, op. ci.t p. 410

37
ibid.

38
Woodward and Butler, Third Series ii 683-9

39
See Kissinger,
Diplomacy
, p. 821, London 1994

40
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 283

41
ibid. p. 284

42
See Donald Cameron Watt essay ‘Churchill and Appeasement' in Blake and Louis, Churchill, London 1993, for another misreading of the Kleist visit

43
Partly quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit. p. 410

44
Roberts, op. cit. p. 308

45
Cameron Watt, op. cit. p. 206

46
Winston Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
, p. 103, London 1948

47
Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit. p. 410

48
Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit.

49
Henderson,
Failure of a Mission
, p. 147ff, London 1940

50
Bloch,
Ribbentrop
, p. 209, London 2003

51
Rothenfels,
The German Opposition to Hitler
, p. 62, Illinois 1948

52
Home, op. ci.t p. 53

53
A. J. P. Taylor,
Origins of the Second World War
, p. 170f, London 1962

54
Rothenfels, op. cit. p. 263

55
Home, op. cit. p. 54

56
ibid.

57
Roberts, op. cit. p. 203

58
See Colvin, Gisevius, Spitz, Vernon Bartlett, David Astor etc.

59
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 246

60
Home, op. cit. p. 63

61
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 422

62
Harold Nicolson,
Diaries
, 20 September 1938, London

63
David Astor,
Balliol Record
1982

64
Colvin, op. cit. p. 69

65
Weitz,
Hitler's Banker
, p. 237, London 1999

Chapter Eight

1
Lord Halifax, speech at the RIIA, 29 June 1939

2
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 297

3
Home, op. cit. p. 64

4
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 310ff

5
Julian Amery,
Approach March
, p. 70, London 1973

6
Amery Crosby Kemper lecture op. cit.

7
ibid.

8
Leo Amery Diaries,
The Empire at Bay
, p. 396, 13 August 1935, London 1988. Leo Amery had been one of the first British statesmen to visit Hitler. Amery noted ‘he (Hitler) did not waste much time on compliments but got on to high politics at once … on this he talked what seemed to me vigorous commonsense … A bigger man on the whole than I had expected … interesting to see how he shapes … if he lasts.'

9
Deacon, op. cit. p. 171

10
Colvin, op. cit. p. 76

11
Farrago, op. cit. p. 15

12
Cave Brown,
The Secret Servant
, p. 177, New York 1987

13
ibid. p. 144

14
private information A.C.L.

15
Frederick Winterbotham,
The Nazi Connection
, p. 164, London 1978

16
ibid. p. 14

17
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 256ff; also Lamb, op. cit. pp. 110-14 and David Marsh,
History of the Bundesbank
, London 1991

18
Lord Halifax, Chatham House speech, op. cit.

19
G. Etherington-Smith interview, 29 January 2004

20
Winterbotham, op. cit. p. 142

21
Padfield,
Hess
, op. cit. p. 118

22
ibid. p. 119

23
Colvin, op. cit. p. 54

24
ibid. p. 82

25
Horace Wilson, 24 July 1939, quoted Lamb, op. cit. p. 110

26
Lewis Namier,
Diplomatic Prelude
, p. 417ff, London 1948

27
Documents on British Foreign Policy FO 371/39178

28
Colvin, op. cit. p. 84

29
Lahousen, PRO KV2/173

30
Johnson,
Germany's Spies and Saboteurs
, p. 12, New York 1995

31
ibid. p. 76

32
Jebb, memo on Beaverbrook, quoted Lamb op. cit. p. 136

33
Trevor Roper Cornhill magazine op cit

34
Inge Haag, interview 26 March 04

35
Neal Ascherson,
Struggles for Poland
, London 1985

36
Hassell, op. cit. p. 73

37
Tatiana Metternich,
Bericht eines ausgewoenlichen Lebens
, p. 178, Vienna 1978

38
Alexander von Stahlberg,
Die verdammte Pflicht
, p. 313ff, Germany 2002

39
Halder,
Diaries
, London 1998

40
Metternich, op. cit. p. 138

41
Colvin, op.cit. p. 89

42
Private information

43
Colvin, op. cit. p 91

44
Josef Garlinski,
The Swiss Corridor
, p. 84, London 1981

Chapter Nine

1
Schmidt, op. cit. pp. 502-3; also Colvin, op. cit. p. 131

2
Hoehne, op. ci.t p. 384

3
ibid. p. 385

4
Colvin, op. cit. p. 108

5
Abshagen, op. cit. pp. 205-11

6
Colvin, op. cit. p. 110

7
Hoehne, op. cit. pp. 263-9

8
Robert Cooper,
The Breaking of Nations
, p. 21, London 2003

9
Owen Chadwick,
Britain and the Vatican in the Second World War
, p. 98ff, London 1986

10
FO 371/24962/72

11
Chadwick, op. ci.t p. 98

12
Hoehne, op. cit. p. 400ff

13
Interview, Lord Amery, 18 September 1993

14
Churchill,
Their Finest Hour
, p. 576, London 1949

15
ibid. p. 310

16
Colvin, op. ci.t p. 118

17
Stafford, op. cit. p. 189

18
Colvin, op. cit. p. 118

19
ibid.

20
Protze, quoted Colvin, op. cit. p. 119

21
Soltikow, op. cit. p. 6

22
Colvin, op. cit. p. 117

23
ibid.

24
Deacon, op. cit. p. 276

25
Werner Emil Hart, deposition 23 June 1953, IfZ

26
Schmidt, op. cit. p. 500

27
Stille, deposition, IfZ

28
Hart, op. cit.

29
ibid.

30
Hart, op. cit.

31
Schmidt, op. cit. p. 501

32
Hart, op. cit.

33
ibid.

34
This school of diplomacy, as the events of March 2003 at the Security Council underlined, regrettably has begun to enjoy something of a revival in certain parts of the ‘diplomatic' corps of the Anglo-Saxon nations

35
Schmidt, op. cit. p. 502

36
Stafford, op. cit. p. 202ff

37
WSC to Godfrey, ADM 223/490

38
Stafford, op. cit. p. 203

Chapter Ten

1
Conversation, Julian Amery, 19 Sepember 1993

2
ibid.

3
Amery,
Approach March
, p. 191

4
See Callum Macdonald,
The Killing of Obergrüppen-Führer Reinhard Heydrich
, London 1989

5
Wehrmacht Diary, IfZ

6
Amery, op. cit. p. 172

7
Michael Bloch,
Ribbentrop
, p. 340, London 2003

8
DGFP D/XI no. 325

9
Hart, op. cit.

10
Keitel, quoted by Brissaud, op. cit. p. 218