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4. Britain in the Winter of 1940–41 as Seen from the Wilhelmstrasse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

George O. Kent
George O. Kent
Affiliation:
Historical Office, The State Department, Washington
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The Historical Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 120 - 130
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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References

1 Documents on German Foreign Policy,1918–1945 (Washington/London, 1949– ), ser. D, vol. VIII, doc. nos. 326, 348, 375, 559; vol. IX, doc. nos. 155, 487, 529.Google Scholar

2 Loc. cit. vol. x, doc. no. 191.

3 Cf. loc. cit. vol.XI, doc. no. 39.

4 Ibid. doc. no. 105.

5 Loc. cit. vol. x, doc. nos. 197, 201.

6 Lisbon tel. no. 1107, of 17 September 1940, B 15/B 002744–45. All documents referred to are from the files of the German Foreign Ministry’s archives and microfilms of these documents have been deposited in the Public Record Office in London and in the National Archives in Washington. The documents are cited here by their serial (B 15) and frame numbers (B 002744–45). For an explanation of these numbers and of the German Documents Project which microfilmed the archives, see George O. Kent, ‘The Foreign Ministry’s Archives at Whaddon Hall, 1948–58’, in The American Archivist (January 1961), 43–54.Google Scholar

7 Tel. no. 584, B15/B 002754–55. In transmitting this report, Hempel, the German Minister in Ireland, added that he could not vouch for this report because he had no way of checking the reliability of his source.

8 This was relayed by the German Embassy in Madrid to Berlin in tel. no. 318 of 19 September 1940, B 15/B 002756–57.

9 Lisbon tel. no. 1129 of 18 September [?] 1940, B 15/B 002759–60.

10 Helsinki tel. no 572 of 20 September 1940, B 15/B 002763.

11 Lisbon tel. no. 1151 of 23 September 1940, B 15/B 002778.

12 Dublin tel. no. 606 of 28 September 1940, B 15/B 002792.

13 Lisbon tel. no. 1207 of 1 October 1940, B 15/B 002799–80.

14 Stockholm tel. no. 1510 of 8 October 1940, B 15/B 002807.

15 Dublin tel. no. 642 of 11 October 1940, B 15/B 002808–09.

16 Woermann memo of 24 October 1940, B 15/B 002841–42.

17 Woermann memo of 29 October 1940, B 15/B 002848–49.

18 Woermann memo of 9 November 1940, B 15/B 002870.

19 Ankara tel. no. 922 of 14 November 1940, B 15/B 002880.

20 Lisbon tel. no. 1487 of 16 November 1940, B 15/B 002890–91. In forwarding this report, Huene added that one should keep in mind that the Portuguese Ambassador was known to be a great friend of Britain.

21 Lisbon tel. no. 1486 of 16 November 1940, B 15/B 002894–95.

22 Tokyo tel. no. 1387 of 12 December 1940, B 15/B 002957.

23 Geneva report no. 2775 of 14 December 1940, 3056/601306–374.

24 Geneva report no. 117 of 17 January 1941, 3989/E 056923–7002.

25 Bern report no. 516 of 31 January 1941. 3989/E 057012–18.

26 A marginal note indicates that this report was shown to Hitler.

27 Bern tel. no. 163 of 18 February 1941, 3989/E 057019–20.

28 Bern report no. 416 of 20 February 1941, 3989/E 057021–26.

29 Bern report no. 969 of 4 March 1941, 3989/E 057039.

30 Ibid.

31 Three more reports of this kind were sent to Berlin within the next two weeks, 3989/E–057027–38.

32 Directive of 25 February 1941, 3989/E 057003–09.

33 These were filmed on serial 3989.