Title

The wreckage of Rudolf Hess's Messerschmidt Bf 110 aircraft, Scotland, World War II, May 1941. Artist: Unknown

Caption

The wreckage of Rudolf Hess's Messerschmidt Bf 110 aircraft, near Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, Scotland, World War II, May 1941. Hess (1894-1987) was appointed Adolf Hitler's deputy shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1941, just before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to begin peace negotiations with the British government, but was arrested and spent the rest of the war as a POW. Found guilty of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, Hess spent the rest of his life in Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Date

1920

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_281

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26,5Mb (897,3Kb) / 12,0in x 8,6in / 3594 x 2574 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Germany countryside people male looking job man men German country flight law guy occupation British Scotland aeroplane aircraft plane airplane police war mystery policeman location SCOTTISH century Britain profession leader wreckage concept police officer B&W 1940s MONOCHROME renfrewshire Forties air Transport CRASHED World War II World War two WWII Nazi black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century deputy Nazis Nazism Scots decade Second World War TGN WW2 photograph Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown Rudolf Messerschmidt Bf 110 Rudolf Hess Hess Rudolf Hess photograph