Killing Hitler (57 page)

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.