Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, flies to Britain with a peace proposal

Category
Peace
Place
Europe
Date
1941
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Found by local people with a broken ankle, he was taken prisoner by the army and confined for the rest of the war in an English country house.… Whether Hess came on the orders of Hitler is not known." [1001 Days]

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Category
World War II
1939
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