A file of documents on Rudolf Hess' imprisonment in Britain covering the second half of 1941. The file includes a lengthy treatise written by Hess on the need for an Anglo-German rapprochement to counter the Bolshevik threat in light of the commencement of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, as well as intercepted communications and a transcript of a conversation between German prisoners of war regarding Hess' flight to Britain in May 1941. The file also contains medical reports discussing Hess' precarious mental state, including his paranoia that his attendants were secretly poisoning him.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Belgium Bermuda Cameroon Chile Denmark Egypt England France Germany Gibraltar Great Britain Greece India Iraq Ireland Italy Morocco Netherlands Norway Palestine Poland Portugal Réunion Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Soviet Union Spain Sweden Syria United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/12/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Summary Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/12
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0012.002
- Keywords
- Predicting Enemy Intentions Peace Proposals Post-war Planning Invasion Of The Soviet Union War Materials Weapons Production Casualties German War Aims Manpower German Strategy Diplomacy Communism Anglo-soviet Relations Prisoners Of War Security Hess' Mental Condition Medical Records Naval Warfare Propaganda German U-boats Air Warfare Economic Warfare Blockades Censorship Press Reports Ideology German Propaganda Nazi Leadership Nazi Party Intelligence Channels Signals Vichy Regime Personal Correspondence Rumours Assassinations
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Geheime Staatspolizei Secret Intelligence Service Security Service Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 192
- Persons Discussed
- Alexander Cadogan Hermann Göring Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler Peter Loxley Benito Mussolini Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance
