EpisodeS3E224 min1994-06-20
Unsolved Mysteries of the Second World War
The Riddle Of Rudolf Hess
On May 10, 1941 Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, made an extraordinary lone flight to Britain. Why did the British government, instead of treating the incident as a propaganda coup, shroud the Hess affair in a web of official secrecy?