British files made public Wednesday seemed to settle a 51-year-old riddle by confirming that Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, kept secret from the Fuehrer the plans for his baffling solo flight to try to ...

When top Nazi Rudolph Hess parachuted into in an Ayrshire field on 7 May 1941, he fell on fertile ground for conspiracy theorists. His peace mission to Scotland came at the bleakest point of Britain's ...

Was Rudolf Hess's infamous flight to Great Britain in 1941 coordinated with Adolf Hitler? Although historians have long believed that the Nazi Party's second-in-command was acting on his own, newly ...

Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi Party and author of most of Germany’s anti-Jewish laws, today became the center of widespread speculation over trouble within the Nazi ranks as the Nazi Party ...

After Hess’ failed peace treaty attempt he was cut off by the Nazis. Hitler ordered Hess to be shot should he return to Germany and he was depicted as delusional in state media. But speculation has ...

EVEN at face value, at its most simple, the story of Rudolf Hess - Hitler's "lone nut" deputy, and his 900-mile wartime flight from Germany to Scotland on an apparent peace mission that ended with his ...

New memories have surfaced of one of the most remarkable incidents in Britain during the Second World War - the flight to Scotland of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, in May 1941. An article written for ...

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 ...

Hamlet: Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? Clown: Why, because ‘a was mad. ‘A shall recover his wits there; or if ‘a do not, ’tis no great matter there. Hamlet: Why? Clown: ‘Twill not be seen in ...