A file of documents on Rudolf Hess' imprisonment in Britain from late 1942 to the end of 1943. Subjects discussed include the provision of food, clothes, and books for Hess; Hess' mental health and continuing suspicions of poisoning by his guards; and arrangements for the opening of Hess' prison in Maindiff to other prisoners of war with psychological conditions. The file also includes papers discussing a request from the Red Cross to conduct a psychiatric interview with Hess after his wife raised her concerns with the organisation. The intelligence services were afraid that such an interview would reveal to the world the true state of Hess' mental health, belying British propaganda assertions that he was not mentally unstable.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- England Germany Sicily Switzerland
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/16/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Report Memorandum
- File Reference
- FO 1093/16
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0016.002
- Keywords
- Prisoners Of War Vetting Of Prisoner Correspondence Postal Communications Diplomatic Officials Finances Medical Records Hess' Mental Condition Military Spending Security Secrecy Rumours Leakage Of Information Personal Correspondence Treaties
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary's Department International Red Cross
- Pages
- 182
- Persons Discussed
- Alexander Cadogan Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler Peter Loxley Stewart Menzies Franklin Delano Roosevelt Orme Sargent
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance