Thinking Sideways: Rudolph Hess

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In May 1941 Rudolf Hess, the 3rd most powerful man in Nazi Germany and a close friend of Hitler, climbed into a Messerschmidt Bf 110 fighter and flew solo to Scotland, with the avowed intent of single-handedly brokering a peace deal with Britain. Hitler was reportedly furious and felt betrayed, and issued an order for Hess to be shot on sight if he returned to Germany. Why did Hess fly to Scotland? And was Hitler really totally in the dark?

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0:00.0	Thinking sideways is not supported by a fleet of puppy supremacists.
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0:11.7	And thanks.
0:15.4	Thinking sideways.
0:17.6	I don't understand.
0:19.4	Don't not compute.
0:21.3	You never know.
0:22.8	Can't depict the face of the planet in a smile.
0:25.5	What?
0:26.4	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:31.7	Hi there.
0:32.4	Welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways.
0:34.8	I'm your host, Joe.
0:36.2	Join my my co-hosts.
0:38.1	Devon.
0:38.6	And Steve.
0:40.3	And this week we're going to talk about a really, really interesting World War II mystery.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:45.2	Yeah, that's a lot of cool stuff happen around World War II time.
0:48.4	Kicking at old school.
0:49.6	Yeah.
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