Unsolved Mysteries of the Second World War — Season 1, Episode 12: The Riddle of Rudolph Hess
Documentary • 25 min • 3 seasons, 22 episodes
Episode synopsis
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?