Rudolf Hess mission to secure peace with

[Still Waters]

Rudolf Hess’s flight to Britain during World War Two in a bizarre attempt to secure peace was backed by Adolf Hitler, fresh documents claim.

History has long recorded that the Nazi number three was acting alone when he piloted a Messerschmitt to Scotland in May 1941.

He parachuted out over Renfrewshire and was arrested by a farmhand with a pitchfork.

Hess was, apparently, trying to contact the Duke of Hamilton to set peace talks with Winston Churchill in motion under his own initiative.

Hitler was even supposed to have scrambled aircraft to try to stop Hess, his deputy, from leaving Germany.

But a 28-page notebook discovered in a Russian archive disputes this theory and indicates that Hitler was in on the mission. It was written in 1948 by Major Karlheinz Pintsch, a long-time adjutant to Hess.

He was captured by the Soviets and spent years undergoing torture and interrogation at their hands.

In the notebook he writes that Hitler hoped that an ‘agreement with the Englishmen would be successful’.

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