Edward Harrison - Hitler’s Traitors

HITLERS TRAITORS

DISSENT, ESPIONAGE AND THE HUNT FOR RESISTERS

EDWARD HARRISON

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In memory of the Reverend John Morris Harrison, present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

I would like to thank those who edited the original versions of the articles, namely Renate Bihl, Betsy Breuer, R.J.W. Evans, Hermann Graml, Mirella Kraska, Thomas Schlemmer and Manfred Weissbecker.

I should also mention those who provided decisive help in other respects. My siblings John and Patricia, both accomplished Germanists, have been an unfailing source of encouragement. The late Bill Calder gave strong support at an early stage. Through clouds of pipe smoke the late Dr Erich Langstadt of the Brotherton Library introduced me to primary sources about the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany. My first meeting as a graduate student was in Munich, where I spent an unforgettable afternoon with the late Martin Broszat and Elke Froehlich. With exemplary generosity, Jonathan Duering OSB made available to me the private records which he was using for his own doctoral thesis. The late Sir Alistair Horne of St Antonys College Oxford provided the opportunity to complete my essay on Helldorf. Blair Worden gave invaluable guidance as Literary Executor to Lord Dacre of Glanton [Hugh Trevor-Roper]. The presence of two essays on Trevor-Roper is also very much due to exceptional help from Judith Curthoys, the Christ Church archivist. At Pen and Sword Charles Hewitt expertly redesigned the project as two volumes the first on Secret Service has already appeared. Lester Crook was a most thoughtful and enthusiastic editor. On the production side Harriet Fielding went beyond the call of duty in solving my IT issues, and provided unfailing guidance. Paul Middleton was a meticulous copy-editor and Richard Munro skilfully compiled the index. Invaluable help with image permissions was provided by Dr. Hannah Hien, Enrico Litschko, Julia Martin, Abbot Michael Reepen OSB and Ursula Schedl.

The six essays included in this volume were originally published as follows:

May 1941: Rudolf Hess, the Uninvited Guest in Kurt Paetzold and Manfred Weissbecker, Rudolf Hess. Der Mann an Hitlers Seite (Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 1999), pp. 36892.

Count Helldorf, the Nazi Movement and the Opposition to Hitler Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte vol. 45/3 (July 1997), pp. 385423.

The Red Flag and the Cross European History Quarterly vol. 22/1 (Jan. 1992), pp. 104119.

The Nazi Dissolution of the Monasteries: a Bavarian Case-Study English Historical Review vol. CIX /431 (April 1994), pp. 32355.

Hugh Trevor-Roper and The Last Days of Hitler , Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte vol. 57/1 (Jan. 2009), pp. 3360.

Funeral in Berlin: Hugh Trevor-Ropers Special Missions in 194546 and his Evidence for The Last Days of Hitler, Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte vol. 65/4 (Oct. 2017), pp. 50744.

I would like to thank The English Historical Review , The European History Quarterly , Militzke Verlag and the Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte for kind permission to republish articles which first appeared in their pages.

Edward D.R. Harrison