In one of the most bizarre episodes of the
war,
Hitler's deputy and confidant,
Rudolf
Hess, the man who had written
Mein
Kampf as Hitler dictated it, flew across the North Sea and
parachuted into Scotland on May 10, 1941, to negotiate a peace
agreement. Hitler had known nothing about Hess's intention and
was furious for months after he found out about it. The
British, meanwhile, didn't know what to make of Hess, but
concluded he was mentally unbalanced. This was also the line
put out by the Nazis who said Hess had suffered a
hallucination.
