British Ambassador to Germany Nevile Henderson, Ribbentrop and Hitler.:
The following is the German record of a meeting between Henderson and Hitler on August 23, 1939:
The Führer declared that there were people in the British Government who wanted war.
The Ambassador vigorously denied this and declared that Chamberlain had always been a friend of Germany.
The Führer mentioned the Minister for War (ie Leslie Hore-Belisha, a Jew), saying he could not imagine him as one.
Henderson said he thought that the proof of Chamberlain's friendship was to be found in the fact that he had refused to have Churchill in the Cabinet. The hostile attitude to Germany did not represent the will of the British people. It was the work of Jews and enemies of the Nazis.
Memorandum by an Official of the Foreign Minister's Secretariat, August 42, 1939.
Record of the interview between the Führer and the British Ambassador,
Sir Nevile Henderson, at the Berghof on August 23, 1939.
Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945. Series D (1937-1945).
Volume VII. The Last Days of Peace. August 9 - September 3, 1939.
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1956. p.214
Source: I leant this from the IHR's director Mark Weber's broadcast:
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