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Rudolf Hess was a leading member of the Nazi Party and Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler. But in 1941 he did something so unexpected that the Germans, British, and Soviets alike dismissed him as mentally unstable.
The afternoon of May 10, Hess climbed into his aircraft and flew to Scotland. He claims that he was there to negotiate a peace deal with the United Kingdom and end the war.
Hitler was infuriated, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin believed a secret anti-Bolshevik alliance was being forged between the British and the Germans.
Ultimately, the British held him prisoner until the end of the war, and Hess was then sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg trials for crimes against peace.
The former Nazi Deputy Leader was found hanging in a garden house at Spandau prison in 1987. It was declared a suicide, but many historians reckon it could have been foul play.
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