Rudolf Hess – The Man who Knew too Much

In May of 1941, during a conflict that soon widened into the Second World War, at a time when most people now alive were not yet born, a man flew unescorted from Augsburg in Germany to the Scottish highlands in an unarmed Messerschmitt 110 twin-engine plane which he piloted himself.

The plane had been specially prepared for this mission by the installati…