World War Two
Published 12 May 2020In a series of events, Hitler’s 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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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
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Adrien Fillon, https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colo…Bibliography:
– Balfour, Michael, Propaganda in War, 1939–45: 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), 75–101.
– Heiden, Konrad, “Hitler’s 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) 19–38.
– Schmidt, Rainer, “The Marketing of Rudolf Hess: A Key to the ‘Preventative War Debate’?” War in History 5 (1998) 62-83.Sources:
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Portrait of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, courtesy Nationaal Archief
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