Scotsman with Rudolf Hess's crashed plane, WW2

Scotsman with Rudolf Hess's crashed plane, Scotland, WW2. In 1941 Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland to enter into peace negotiations: a world sensation. After long preparations, on May 10th, 1941 the Minister of the Reich started with his Me-110 in Augsburg to fly to Scotland. Hess did it without any orders (but later the question, whether he didn't fly with Hitler's consent, arose, people speculated about ulterior motives.) Hitler's deputy, who was designated as a worldly innocent idealist, had intended to make contact with an English statesman, to enter into peace negotiations with Great Britain and to interest in a united action against the Soviet Union. Rudolf Hess parachuted out near the country seat of the Duke of Hamilton, whom he already knew; he was arrested and held in Great Britain until the end of the war. In the war crimes trial of Nuremberg, on October 1st, 1946, Rudolf Hess was sentenced to imprisonment for life because of a Plot against world peace and the planning of an offensive war'. After the end of the main war crimes trial, together with six other prisoners he was taken to the former military prison in Spandau which was rebuilt for that purpose. There he was guarded by turns by the four powers. Eventually he was the only prisoner left in Spandau, at the age of 87 years. Photo shows a Scottish captain inspecting the wreck of Rudolf Hess's crashed plane in Scotland

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