Rudolf Hess flys to Chamberlins Uk.

We all know about the Rudolf Hess and his otl attempt to negotiate peace with Churchill's England but I have yet to see what the result would be if he arrived in Chamberlins England (Chamberlin stays in power). So I ask you all what would become of this, would it succeed and should you believe it to fail is there anything that you believe could change that (different offer, crushing British defeat at Dunkirk, etc.)?
 
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We all know about the Rudolf Hess and his otl attempt to negotiate peace Churchill's England but I have yet to see what the result would be if he arrived in Chamberlins England. So I ask you all what would become of this, would it succeed and should you believe it to fail is there anything that you believe could change that (different offer, crushing British defeat at Dunkirk, etc.)?
I actually think this thought experiment is rather interesting. But it probably ends with zero trust. Hess needs to promise to get rid of Hitler
 
Though if one goes by the idea that Chamberlain knew war was highly likely and that Munich was an effort to buy time for further British rearmament, then would it make any real difference?
 
A book similar to this was written called Dominion, which saw a puppet UK government (Con-Lab coalition, they couldn't force the black-shirts onto Britain yet) disguised as a friendly peace with the world superpower of Germany. There is also a resistance headed up by Churchill. It gets very dark, with British Jews being shipped off to the Isle of Wight and then the East.
 
Why would he fly to England and not Scotland like he actually did ? And why would he only want to make peace with England ? What has he got against the rest of the UK ?
 
Why would he fly to England and not Scotland like he actually did ?

The whole point was to try and contact the Duke of Hamilton (due to Hess' misunderstanding of British politics he thought that if he could convince the Duke to side with him then Churchill would be forced to make peace by the aristocracy) who was based nearby his estate in central Scotland. So unless the Duke is based down south and Hess somehow gets word of it I can't see why he'd try to land in England.
 
The whole point was to try and contact the Duke of Hamilton (due to Hess' misunderstanding of British politics he thought that if he could convince the Duke to side with him then Churchill would be forced to make peace by the aristocracy) who was based nearby his estate in central Scotland. So unless the Duke is based down south and Hess somehow gets word of it I can't see why he'd try to land in England.
Sorry, force of habit. Where I'm from England is used as a synonym for the UK so I tend to use them interchangeably (As I did in the title and opening post)
 
We all know about the Rudolf Hess and his otl attempt to negotiate peace with Churchill's England but I have yet to see what the result would be if he arrived in Chamberlins England (Chamberlin stays in power). So I ask you all what would become of this, would it succeed and should you believe it to fail is there anything that you believe could change that (different offer, crushing British defeat at Dunkirk, etc.)?
Problem 1: Neville Chamberlain died in November 1940 from bowel cancer... Even if he doesn't step down after the Fall of France he's long gone before Hess's OTL.

Problem 2: Okay, lets put the Zombie Chamberlain issue aside and presume he's still PM despite being undead... Hess's flight had no official approval: He wasn't able to actually offer peace! Why on earth should the poms pay him any attention when a real peace offer would have come through more conventional channels?

Problem 3: Even if Zombie Chamberlain is still the PM, well, the Germans have pretty thoroughly burnt all trust the poms once had for them. How can the poms have any confidence that whatever peace is proposed is worth the paper it's written on?
 
Problem 1: Neville Chamberlain died in November 1940 from bowel cancer... Even if he doesn't step down after the Fall of France he's long gone before Hess's OTL.

Problem 2: Okay, lets put the Zombie Chamberlain issue aside and presume he's still PM despite being undead... Hess's flight had no official approval: He wasn't able to actually offer peace! Why on earth should the poms pay him any attention when a real peace offer would have come through more conventional channels?

Problem 3: Even if Zombie Chamberlain is still the PM, well, the Germans have pretty thoroughly burnt all trust the poms once had for them. How can the poms have any confidence that whatever peace is proposed is worth the paper it's written on?

Yeah, this is repeatedly brought up as something more than it was. A really misguided attempt by a person who knew nothing about the British government to try and offer something he had no authority to offer. He'd likely just be arrested and imprisoned for the remainder of the war as he was OTL. He was deluded (either mentally or had a really inflated sense of self importance) and the British basically assumed him as such.
 
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