Rudolf Hess - Nazi Pacifist, Traitor or Madman? - WW2 Special Episode

In a series of events, Hitlers second in command Rudolf Hess decides to fly to Britain to enter peace negotiations with the Allies. But the true reasons behind and effects of his action remain ambiguous at best.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Joram Appel
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

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Bibliography:
- Balfour, Michael, Propaganda in War, 193945: Organizations, Policies, and Publics in Britain and Germany (London, 1979).
- Fox, Jo. Propaganda and the Flight of Rudolf Hess, 1941-45. In: The Journal of Modern History 83:1 (March 2011) 78-110.
- Gorodetsky, Gabriel, The Hess Affair and Anglo-Soviet Relations on the Eve of Barbarossa. In: The English Historical Review 101:399 (Apr 1986) 405-420.
- Görtemaker, Manfred, The Bizarre Mission: Rudolf Hess in Britain, in Britain and Germany in the 20th Century, ed. M. Görtemaker (Oxford, 2006), 75101.
- Heiden, Konrad, Hitlers Better Half. In: Foreign Affairs 20:1 (Oct 1941) 73-86.
- Kettenacker, Lothar, Mishandling a Spectacular Event: The Rudolf Hess Affair, in Flight from Reality: Rudolf Hess and His Mission to Scotland, ed. David Stafford (London, 2002) 1938.
- Schmidt, Rainer, The Marketing of Rudolf Hess: A Key to the Preventative War Debate? War in History 5 (1998) 62-83.

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
Portraits of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, duke of Hamilton and Duff Cooper, MP, courtesy National Portrait Gallery
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Portrait of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, courtesy Nationaal Archief
IWM D 8987

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