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The Marketing of Rudolf Hess: A Key to the `Preventive War Debate'?

It was way past midnight in the Kremlin and the atmosphere was more relaxed and friendly than ever. The negotiations for establishing spheres of influence in south-east Europe, under way in Moscow since 9 October 1944, had been reasonably successful so far. Suddenly, Joseph Stalin took his guest, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, aside and brought up a topic which had persistently haunted him: the flight of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, in a secret and mysterious peace mission to Scotland on 10 May 1941. But what the Soviet dictator heard was the old familiar version, which in essence reiterated previous British official statements that had been issued about the Hess affair: Hess's flight had been made without the knowledge or consent of Hitler; his plan had been to meet the Duke of Hamilton, who was supposed to take him to the King; immediately after arriving in Britain Hess was put in prison, where he tried to commit suicide by throwing himself over the banisters. 'He is now, Churchill grinned, completely mad' and his 'relations with Hitler were probably abnormal'. No wonder that the Soviet dictator was far from satisfied with this explanation. According to the record of the conversation, Stalin then 'rather unexpectedly proposed the health of the British Intelligence Service which had inveigled Hess into coming to England. He could not have landed without being given signals. The Intelligence Service must have been behind it all.1 Neither a three-year military alliance against Nazi Germany, nor the provision of massive war supplies, nor the Normandy invasion by the Western allies in June 1944, designed to terminate the war early at Stalin's request, had been enough to dispel Soviet suspicions of a sinister role played by London in the Hess affair. Given these persistent Soviet suspicions, and alluding specifically to that dispute in October 1944, Churchill thought it necessary to prohibit a visit of the Duke of Hamilton to the United States in the following spring of 1945, for fear that the