Art wrote:
"He was found to be insane and put in the tower."

Rudolph Hess was thought to be insane and put away for life after
piloting an aircraft to London. I had never heard that Hess was a
messenger from the German High Command. Considering the message, he
should have been respected.

Ambassador Joe Kennedy`s assessment wasn`t far off the mark. Without
massive foreign help, Hitler`s disregard of his general staff, and his
premature panic attack of the Soviet Union, when his forces were already
fully occupied, the Battle of Brittain would have been lost by the
British. The apes on Gibralter and the crows in the Tower of London
would have been of little help. Hitler`s forces had excellent training
and equipment. They were also accustomed to winning and quickly too.

Thankfully, Hitler made mistakes which doomed his enterprise.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI