On the night of May 10th, 1941, a Scottish farmer named David McLean found a German Messerschmitt ai

On the night of May 10th, 1941, a Scottish farmer named David McLean found a German Messerschmitt airplane ablaze in his field and a parachutist who identified himself as Captain Alfred Horn.McLean’s mum was soon serving him a cup of tea by the cottage fireside, but their surprise guest was no ordinary Luftwaffe pilot. Incredibly, he was Rudolf Hess, a longtime Hitler loyalist, to say the least and  Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler. Hess’s appearance on Scottish soil, a self-described mission of peace just weeks before Hitler would launch his ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union, was one of the war’s strangest incidents. The search for explanations began on the morning after and has roiled on now for 77 years.Hess’s unlikely “landing” site was Dungavel House, home of the Duke of Hamilton, but he failed to locate the property in the darkness.  Hess hoped to make contact with one of the highly placed British figures who, unlike Churchill, were willing to make peace with the Nazis on Hitler’s terms. Hess believed that Hamilton headed a faction of such people and immediately asked his captors to be taken to him. But Hess was misinformed. Hamilton, who wasn’t home that night but on duty commanding an RAF air base, was committed to his country and to its fight against Germany. Hess injured his foot either as he tried to exit the aircraft, or when he hit the ground taken to hospital in Glasgow , from there he was kept in the Tower of London until the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. Despite the fact that he was displaying symptoms of amnesia (whether real or false), he was declared fit to stand trial. Some conspiracy theorists say that his memories were erased. He was tried and convicted of crimes against peace, but not against humanity like some of his comrades.Rudolf Hess never once fully revealed the nature of his flight to Scotland. Furthermore, he continued to say he went of his own volition until the day he died of an apparent suicide at Spandau Prison. He supposedly hung himself with an electrical cord. He was a virtually invalid 93-year-old man at the time.We will never know the reason for his flight and it will remain a mystery, I, personally, think his death was no suicide either, but why someone would kill him so many years after the war is also a mystery.Pics include part of the wreckage from his plane, the colour pic shows it in The Imperial War museum.  -- source link

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