Conversations with Speer in Spandau
Jul 30, 2021
4 minutes
ON THE night of May 10, 1941, Hitler’s deputy, Rudolph Hess, made a secret unauthorised solo flight from Germany to Scotland in a misguided attempt to make peace with Britain. He parachuted near Glasgow and was quickly arrested. Churchill ordered Hess’s detention in the Tower of London, then in Wales. Hitler declared Hess ‘insane’.
A year later, a recently married young Artillery officer was on a course in Wales; his wife was a typist in one of the ministries in London. This officer was unexpectedly detailed to escort Hess to Surrey for medical reasons, after which the newly married pair met up, and nine months later Adrian was
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