[gr8eman]

My case study was "Why did Hess fly to Scotland to try to broker a deal?" Germany and England were in an all out war yet the Nazis were still trying to cut a deal. The reason is that Hitler wasn;t so clueless to realize that he couldn't win a two front war, as six weeks after Hess flew to Scotland, Operation Barbarossa was set.

Hitler did have reasonable issues as to the Sudeten Germans and Danzig, but instead of engaging in diplomacy, even at knifepoint, he went postal.

Chamberlain was not a coward or a pu$$y. He followed the political line that was shared by the King, Lord Fairfax, and the upper classes of which Lord Hamilton, the target of Hess' mission, were toeing.

I admit that I bought into this perversion of history and it is purely ignorant. The only more egregious perversions are by the Churchill haters, who to this day rewrite history to slander him for whatever reason!

[Peter Libra]

I have carefully noted your comments on the events that lead to the irrecoverable decision to promote the war. One point of view of others,you have stated. This view does not put Winston Churchill in a favourable light. It is easy for wishful thinking and I have engaged in it myself. So much misinformation exists. Chamberlain's statement that "Hitler has missed the bus" was construed to mean the Germans were willing to negotiate a cease in hostilities. I bought into it.

The statement was made to mean that had Hitler have attacked Britain in 1938, he would have had an immediate success. Churchill was kind enough to deliver a eulogy a few days after Chamberlain's death in 1940. He was a broken man because of the perfidy of Hitler.

Excuse the ramble and I shall have to do more reading of Hess and his flight.