Contents

Preface by the The Most Revd & Rt Hon. Dr xi

Foreword by the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford The Very Revd Christopher Lewis xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1

House of Lords Speeches 1. Refugee Problems 13 2. Peace Mediation 17 3. The Fifth Column 25 4. Germany and the Hitlerite State 32 5. German Atrocities 40 6. International Relations after the War 46 7. Agricultural Policy 48 8. Bombing Policy 52 9. Europe Relief Problems 73 10. The Moral Revival of Europe 76 11. War Memorials 83 12. World Organization for Peace 88 13. World State 91 14. Economic Situation in Germany 95 15. Employment of Prisoners of War 98 viii

16. Displaced Persons 102 17. Let Europe be Envisaged as a Whole 107 18. The Work of UNESCO 112 19. German War Crimes Trials 116 20. German Prisoners in Russia 128 21. The Schuman Plan 135 22. How to Meet the Strategy of Post-war Totalitarianism? 139 23. Persecution of Religion in Communist States 142 24. Total War, Just War, the Use of the Atomic Bomb 144 25. On German Unity 146 26. The Importance of the Building of New Houses 148 27. Central African Federation 150 28. University Education 161 29. The Reform of the Constitution of the 164 30. Retirement of the 168 31. Farewell Speech: Developments Hostile to Religious Liberty in Eastern Germany 170

Appendix: Correspondence with Rudolf Hess 185 1. Interview with Rudolf Hess (20 September 1935) 187 2. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (4 October 1935) 189 3. Bishop George Bell to Mrs Rudolf Hess (4 October 1935) 190 4. A Memorandum on the Question of the German Evangelical Church in Relation to the National Socialist State (4 October 1935) 191 5. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (2 December 1935) 195 ix

6. Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell (3 February 1936) 197 7. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (9 March 1936) 198 8. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (1 September 1936) 199 9. Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell (6 October 1936) 200 10. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (8 October 1936) 201 11. Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell (23 October 1936) 203 12. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (30 December 1936) 204 13. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (1 March 1937) 206 14. The Personal Adjutant of Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell (4 March 1937) 207 15. From the Bishop of Chichester to Reichsminister Rudolf Hess (18 March 1937) 208 16. Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell (11 July 1937) 210 17. Bishop George Bell to Rudolf Hess (18 September 1938) 212

German Text of Letters from Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell 213

Index 221