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Finally, at week's end, Berlin called the incident officially closed. No explanations were given, but the Nazis denied arresting Hess's wife and son, his geopolitical mentor, Professor Karl Haushofer, Plane Designer Willy Messerschmitt. But Nazi spokesmen were probably not exaggerating when they said, "The English . . . will have more headaches over this matter than...
Hess took off from the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg in a new type of reconnaissance plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel...
David McLean, a tenant of the Duke's, saw the Messerschmitt crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
Finally the enemies brushed in Iraq. First-line German planes, Heinkel bombers and Messerschmitt fighters hurried to attack the British at their Habbannia airport. German cadres of officers headed Iraqi troops for new infantry attacks near Basra. The British counter-bombed the Luftwaffe bases. The Fleet Air Arm planes flew 160 miles up the Tigris to bomb oil tanks at Amarah. R.A.F. fliers caught convoys of French motor trucks carrying Arab volunteers from Syria to Iraq...
Agents of the Nazi Gestapo were said in a Swedish report to have questioned Willy Messerschmitt, famous airplane designer and builder, on suspicion of providing Hess with a specially-equipped plane and aiding him in his daring fight...