33 Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy
34 Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
35 New York Daily News, 13 December 1966
36 New York Times; Mark Allen, Hidden Agenda
37 Allen, Hidden Agenda
38 PRO ADM 223/490 Spanish help to the Germans
39 Michael Bloch, Operation Willi: The Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor, July 1940, p.74
40 Philip Ziegler, Edward VIII, p.434
41 King George VI writing to Queen Mary, 7 July 1940
42 Baron von Hoyningen-Huene, German ambassador to Portugal, to Berlin, 10 July 1940
43 Higham, Wallis, p.249
44 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p.435
45 Bloch, Operation Willi, pp.226–7
46 Liberty, 22 March 1941
47 FBI Report on Wallis Simpson sent to President Roosevelt, 1939
48 FBI memorandum to Hoover, 13 September 1940
49 Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
50 FBI memorandum to Hoover, 2 May 1941
12 Intrigue in America and London
1 Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933–49
2 Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.71
3 Letter from Hitler to Princess Stephanie, 28 December 1937
4 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
5 Memorandum from Ward Price, 30 March 1938; Foreign Office Papers 800/313/54-5
6 ‘Munich – The 1938 Appeasement Crisis’, The History of the Times Vol. IV 1912–1948, p.193
7 Ibid.
8 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
9 Ibid.
10 Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.84
11 ‘11–16 July 1938’, in J. Harvey (ed.), The Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey 1937–40, pp.161–2
12 W. Selby, Diplomatic Twilight, p.72
13 David Faber, Munich: The Appeasement Crisis, p.107
14 Lord Halifax Memorandum, 11 August 1938
15 Faber, Munich, p.198
16 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian ambassador to London, memorandum to Prague, 22 July 1938
17 Sir Walford Selby, British ambassador to Austria, memorandum to British Foreign Office
18 H. Von Dirksen, Moscow, Tokyo, London: Twenty Years of German Foreign Policy
19 Fritz Wiedemann’s memorandum to Ribbentrop; Documents of German Foreign Policy D/VII Appendix 111(H); Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
20 Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: A Biography of Lord Halifax, p.103
21 Daily Express, 31 July 1938
13 Chatelaine of Schloss Leopoldskron
1 Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.92
2 Document signed by Wiedemann, adjutant to the Führer, 10 June 1938
3 Time Magazine, 30 January 1938
4 British and Foreign Newspaper Reports; Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 4)
5 Telegram from Rothermere to Hitler, 1 October 1938
6 Letter from Princess Stephanie to Hitler, November 1938
7 PRO KV2/1696
14 Comic Opera in the High Court
1 Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.105
2 ‘24 October 1938’, in Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
3 Ibid., ‘January 1939’
4 Fritz Wiedemann, Der Mann, der Feldherr warden wollte – The Man who Wanted to Command: Memoirs of Fritz Wiedemann
5 Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.108
6 Time Magazine, 30 January 1939
7 Ibid.
8 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
9 PRO KV2/1696
10 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1); Letter from Rothermere to Princess Stephanie, 19 January 1938
11 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1); Letter from Princess Stephanie to Rothermere, 2 February 1938
12 Letter from Rothermere to Ribbentrop, 7 July 1939
13 PRO KV2/1696
14 Letter from Rothermere to Hitler, 17 June 1939
15 ‘15 November 1939’, in Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
16 PRO KV2/1696
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 PRO KV2/1697
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 ‘15 November 1939’, in Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
26 Eastern Daily Press, 11 November 1939
27 ‘Law Report’, The Times, November 1939
28 Letter from Lady Oxford to Princess Stephanie, 14 November 1939; Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3)
29 Time Magazine, November 1939
30 PRO KV2/1697
15 Exile
1 Letter from Lord Rothermere to Churchill, summer 1939
2 Quoted as a footnote to N.J. Crowson, Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks
3 Telegram from Lord Rothermere to Lord Beaverbrook, 4 May 1940
4 Crowson, Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics
5 Ibid.
6 ‘Review of My Fight to Rearm Britain’, The Times, December 1939
7 Letter from Lord Rothermere to Ribbentrop, 2 August 1939
8 Letter from Ribbentrop to Rothermere, 5 August 1939
9 Daily Mail, 4 September 1939
16 Trailed by the FBI
1 New York World Telegram, 12 December 1939
2 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2); Letter from Hearst Magazines Inc., 31 July 1941
3 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3); Letter from Wiedemann to Princess Stephanie, 3 March 1940
4 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 3); Time Magazine, 30 January 1939
5 Memorandum from John Wiley (US Treasury official) to Henry Morgenthau Jnr, 2 January 1940
6 Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
7 Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933–49
9 Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.133
10 H. Montgomery Hyde, The Quiet Canadian: The Secret Service Story of Sir William Stephenson
11 Morgan Reynolds, Wilson, Churchill, Roosevelt & Bush: The Banality of Betrayal
12 President Roosevelt received a thirty-page report from the FBI on the November 1940 meeting in suite 1024–1026 of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco
13 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)
14 Memorandum re Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, 24 October 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
15 Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, pp.143–4
16 Directive from President Roosevelt to Attorney General Robert Jackson, 7 March 1941
17 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)
18 Higham, Trading with the Enemy
19 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2)
20 Ibid.; Memorandum from Lemuel Schofield to Attorney General Francis Biddle
21 Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.151
22 Higham, Trading with the Enemy
23 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1); Report, New York Journal, December 1941
17 The President’s Anger
1 Paul Atkinson, ‘Pearl Harbor and the Nazi Geopolitik Fifth Column’, from Ellis Zacharias, Secret Missions (1946), www.buzzle.com (accessed 2010)
2 Time Magazine, 8 October 1945
3 Martha Schad, Hitler’s Spy Princess, p.152
4 Letter from President Roosevelt to J. Edgar Hoover, 17 June 1942
5 Letter from President Ro
osevelt to Attorney General Biddle, 11 July 1942
6 Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy
7 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 1)
8 PRO KV2/1697
18 Just Desserts?
1 N.J. Crowson, Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks
2 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers; Letter from Rothermere to Princess Stephanie, 19 January 1938
3 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 2); Yorkshire Post, November 1939
4 Crowson, Fleet Street, Press Barons & Politics
5 ‘9 January 1940’, in Fred Taylor (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41
6 San Francisco Examiner, 13 July 1947
7 ‘Society Notes’, 26 March 1947
8 Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin, April 1953
9 Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1955
10 Letter from Lemuel Schofield to US Immigration authorities, 15 September 1950
11 Invitation to Presidential inauguration etc.: Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers
12 Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe Papers (Box 6); Letter from Princess Stephanie to Roy Jenkins, 4 December 1966
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