Hitler and Nazi Resurgence

WWII Hess crash relic up for auction
UKTV

A section of the wing of a plan carrying Hitler's deputy Hess to Britain is on sale in Shropshire this week.

Part of the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Scotland carrying Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess to Britain has been placed up for sale.

The fighter bomber came down in Lanarkshire in May 1941 and Hess was captured and jailed and a small section of it is now expected to fetch between £400 and £500.

Mullock's auctioneers are selling a small section of fixing from the wing of the plane at Ludlow Racecourse this week. It was recovered from the site of the crash near Eaglesham, south of Glasgow.

Also up for sale in the Shropshire auction were two pink triangles used to identify around 60,000 homosexual men during the 1930s and World War Two.

Rudolph Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party and is thought to have been flying solo to Britain to negotiate peace on the eve of war with the Soviet Union, but was instead arrested, tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life internment in Spandau Prison.

A number of conspiracy theories have sprung up about the reasons for Hess flying to Scotland and his lengthy imprisonment in Spandau, where he died in 1987. It has been suggested that he was on an official mission to forge a deal with Britain.