A dossier of documents apparently drawn
up by Rudolf Hess after the Nazi leader's flight to Scotland in 1941
has been discovered, and will be auctioned in the US. Whether it will
shed any light on the bizarre actions of the Deputy Führer is another
matter.
The pilot of the enemy Messerschmitt had sprained his ankle and was
still busy struggling with his parachute when, shortly before midnight
on May 10, 1941, he was discovered on a meadow at Floors Farm in
Scotland by farmer David McLean. He identified himself as Hauptmann, or
Captain, Alfred Horn, but just a few hours later, after the farmer had
handed him over to the local Home Guard, his real identity became clear:
The captured flier was, in fact, Rudolf Hess; the Deputy Führer of Nazi
Germany.
Ever since that day, there has been much puzzlement over what exactly
prompted the Third Reich's third-most powerful man to travel to
Scotland, what he hoped to achieve with his mission and whether he was
acting on his own authority or had the backing of
Adolf Hitler, or had even been ordered by Hitler to fly to Britain....
