Austria: HG interrog., Nbg., July , (in The Treason Trial of Dr. Guido
Schmidt before the Vienna People’s Court [Vienna; ], p. ff; cited
hereafter as Schmidt Trial); also, testimony of Seyss-Inquart, July , ,
and Dr. Kajetan Mühlmann, Mar. , (ibid.); the proceedings also re-
produce HG’s correspondence with Schmidt.
Ward Price: Report in PRO file FO./; for his other conversations with
HG, see Eden Papers, PRO file FO./ (Mar. , ); and Halifax Pa-
pers, PRO file FO./ (Nov. , , and Mar. , ).
Mackenzie-King: Diary, June , (Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa,
MG./J.). Henderson to Eden, June , (PRO file FO./). Sir
Francis Floud would write from Ottawa on Aug. , , that Mackenzie-
King thought that HG resembled “a large and friendly Newfoundland
dog” (PRO file FO./). Four years later, on Aug. , , K i n g
George would relate to the Canadian PM that he had at one time “in-
vited Göring to England.”
Bugged the conversations: HG freely admitted this under pretrial interrog. at
Nuremberg, Oct. , .
Party rally: Henderson memoirs, and letter to Eden, Sept. , (PRO file
CAB./).
Lloyd-George: Telegram of Phipps to Eden, Oct. , (PRO file CAB./).
Hunting diary: Sept. , , through Oct. , (Library of Congress,
Ac.). The many remnants of the famous green-and-gold Sèvres por-
celain “hunting service” (now owned by Mr. Keith Wilson of Kansas
City) also act as a kind of diary. Each piece commemorates particular tro-
phies like “The High and Mighty of Gilge,” Sept. , ; Kastaunen, Sept.
, ; Finohr, Rominten, Sept. , ; “The High and Mighty of
Schuiken,” Rominten, Sept. , ; Farve, Oct. , ; Springe, Nov. ,
; Basedow, Oct. , ; Reichenbach, June , ; Schorf-Heath, Feb.
, ; and “Matador,” Rominten, Sept. , .
Henderson at Rominten: Henderson, p. f; and letter to Eden, Oct. ,
(PRO file CAB./).
Game exhibition: Final program printed in Schmidt Trial, p. f. See also
Scherping Papers, and Henderson’s report of Nov. , (PRO file
FO./).
Hossbach conference of Nov. , : Hossbach’s text is ND, -PS. See Walter
Bussmann’s paper in VfZ (), p. ff. For the arms-production back-
ground of this conference, see Milch’s letter to HG, Oct. , (MD.,
), and the paper by Dr. Treue in BA-MA, M./a. Blomberg’s
invitations to HG and others to attend this conference will be found i n
BA-MA file WiIF./. Cf. HG testimony in IMT, ix, p. f; interrogs. at
Nuremberg, Aug. and Nov. , , and Bross, op. cit., p. .
Lord Halifax: Diary in Halifax Papers, Borthwick Institute, York University.
For a partial transcript, see PRO file FO./.
Chapter : The Blomberg–Fritsch Affair
This chapter, the inside story of the scandal, is largely based on the private
papers and draft letters of Gen. Baron Werner von Fritsch, which were
seized by Soviet authorities in and are now in private hands in Mos-