Adolf Hitler was said to be furious when he discovered what Hess had done, ordering that he be shot if he ever returned to Germany.But could Hess really have made the flight from Bavaria under Hitler’s nose without help?A journalist who met them both believed the Nazi leader – who was about to invade the Soviet Union – wanted to offer British Prime Minister Winston Churchill the chance of peace or an alliance against the communists.While a notebook of a Hess associate suggests Hitler did authorise the mission, a letter supposedly left for Hitler by Hess suggests he didn’t know.Soviet leader Joseph Stalin reckoned the British engineered Hess’s flight and once raised the matter with Churchill.But he insisted the Allies had no warning, later.
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