WW2 pilot
On 10 May 1941, the Nazi party’s deputy leader Rudolf Hess flew himself by Messerschmitt Me 110 from Germany to Scotland with a ‘peace offer’ for Churchill’s government. The offer was rejected – it would have amounted to a virtual capitulation in the longer term – and Hess was arrested.
Hess had acted on his own. He had lost power in the Nazi leadership and planned his flight to restore it.
Hess was tried at Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal after Germany’s final defeat, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in Spandau prison in August 1987, at the age of 93.
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