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Whatever his reasons, it appears that Hess had been planning his scheme for some time. Two previous attempts were scuttled at the last minute, and finally, on May 10th, 1941, he made his infamous flight to Scotland under cover of darkness.
If one believes a conversation allegedly overheard by one of Hess' ajutants, Hitler apparently knew of the plan - but whether he actually took it serious is another matter. One thing is for certain, when Hitler found out what Hess had done, he "flew into a rage and was quick to follow Hess' suggestion, in a letter written before he left, that if his mission failed he could be disowned as being insane.
Meantime, after a five hour, 900-mile flight Rudolf Hess arrived over Scotland. While the purpose of the flight is still a matter of great controversy, we do know that Hess bailed out of his aircraft, parachuted into a field near the Renfrewshire village of Eaglesham, surrendered to farmer David McLean, and was offered tea at McLean's cottage before he was taken into custody.
Rudolf Hess was either a very good navigator, or, as some say, he had assistance in his journey from various quarters. In any case, he parachuted down a scant 14 miles from his apparent target of the future Duke of Hamilton's home. Considering that he was traveling alone and at night over a distance of 900 miles, this is excellent navigation. Rudolf's only injury from the ordeal was a broken leg which he suffered from either the jump from the aircraft or the parachute landing.
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Rudolf spent much of the next month in captivity. His wounds were tended at Buchanan Castle, in Scotland, which was serving as a hospital during the war. Over the next four years, he was transferred to the Tower of London, Mytchett Place near Aldershot and finally to South Wales. The fact that Hess appeared unstable to the pschiatrists who interviewed him and that Hitler had declared him a lunatic didn't help Hess' case. And he never did manage to reach the ear of the King: Sir Winston Churchill refused to have anything to do with him and treated him as a prisoner of state. It is even rumored that Rudolf Hess attempted to kill himself when he discovered in June 1941, that his 'peace' mission had failed.
In 1946, Hess was a defendant at the Nuremberg trials and was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. For the rest of his long life, Hess was a prisoner at Berlin's Spandau prison, where he was the only inmate from 1966 onwards. He was found dead in his cell in 1987, the victim of an apparent suicide - although some believe he was murdered.
Theories abound about Rudolf Hess' true mission in Scotland, fuelled in part by Britain's refusal to release all the files surrounding his case. In the end, we may never know what Hess' real intentions were....