Scottish Farmers Hid Rudolf Hess' Wrecked Plane

Farm workers in Scotland squirrelled away parts of the fuselage of Rudolf Hess's plane after it crashed into a field during the Second World War, it has emerged, as the wreckage has been put up for sale.
Adolf Hitler's right-hand man flew to Britain in a secret attempt to broker a peace deal in May 1941, but bailed out of the Messerschmitt he was piloting after getting dangerously low on fuel.
First on the scene was Dave McLean, the foreman at Floors Farm in Eaglesham, just south of Glasgow, who apprehended Hess and handed the injured Nazi, who did not reveal he was the Deputy Fuhrer, over to the police.

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