Witness recalls Nazi Rudolf Hess landing in Scotland

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Witness recalls Nazi Rudolf Hess landing in Scotland

Published 10 May 2011



Exactly 70 years ago, one of the most bizarre episodes of World War II unfolded on a farm to the south of Glasgow.

On 10 May 1941, Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland, landing in a field near Eaglesham.

The prominent Nazi had flown solo for nearly 1,000 miles from Bavaria in a Messerschmitt Bf 110, apparently on a peace mission in the days leading up to Germany's invasion of Russia.

He was promptly arrested by a pitchfork-wielding local farmer who took Hess to his farmhouse before alerting the authorities.

Another account tells of the war criminal being pulled from his wrecked plane and surrendering his luger pistol to members of the Corporal Royal Signals, based at Eaglesham House.

George McKenzie, from Rothesay, said his father Jack helped the airman out of the plane.

Read on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-13333536