VOLLERO LA PACE (I NAZI E I CIRCOLI INGLESI SAGGI), MA EBBERO LA GUERRA PER COLPA DI W. S. CHURCHILL

The Rudolf Hess’ flight of mystery: i.e., the Cold War focus of Spandau’s secret, “I have come here, in Great Britain, to save humanity,“ he said. “I am Rudolf Hess.“ No single incident in Britain's wartime history has given birth to so many conspiracy theories, all of them centred on an alleged plot by the intelligence services to lure Hess to Britain. Hess flew to Britain in a Messerschmitt-110 on May 10, 1941, intent on making contact with the Duke of Hamilton, who he believed would help him mediate a peace deal whereby Britain would join Nazi Germany in a war against the Soviet Union. It was a hopeless mission based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the British establishment. Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime prime minister, was convinced that it had produced an intelligence windfall for Britain. Seven months before Hess flew to Britain, in September 1940, one of his close advisers, Albrecht Haushofer, the leading expert on Great Britain in the German Foreign Office, h