A file of documents on Rudolf Hess' imprisonment in Britain in 1945. The documents include Hess' personal correspondence with his family, covering life in Germany and casualties of the final months of the war, and letters written by Hess to the Swiss minister in London in which he complains of a British decision to begin force feeding him after he had gone on hunger strike, and notifying the minister of his intention to commit suicide. The file also contains reports discussing Hess' worsening mental health, concerns that he was a suicide risk, means to prevent the press learning that Hess had been treated as a psychiatric patient, and the beginning of the Nuremberg trials.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- England Germany Iraq Russia Switzerland Wales
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/18/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Memorandum Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/18
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0018.002
- Keywords
- Personal Correspondence Diplomatic Officials Postal Communications Vetting Of Prisoner Correspondence Prisoners Of War Censorship Hess' Mental Condition Post-war Planning Peace Proposals Equipment Nuremberg Trials Military Organisation Security Secrecy Press Reports Release Of Information Medical Records War Crimes Home Front
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office International Red Cross Services Liaison Department Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 126
- Persons Discussed
- Thomas Bromley Alexander Cadogan Patrick Dean Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler Peter Loxley Franklin Delano Roosevelt Josef Stalin
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance Propaganda Censorship Psychological Warfare
