A Scottish farmer says he will try to replace a small monument to Rudolf Hess in the field where Adolf Hitler's deputy landed by parachute in a bizarre episode during World War II.

A marble and slate monument that said it marked the spot where "brave, heroic Rudolf Hess" landed on May 10, 1941, was destroyed Thursday by members of the Anti-Nazi League. The monument - which had been standing in the field for several months - had been erected by anonymous donors.Craig Baird, who owns the Floors Farm near Glasgow where Hess landed, said he was paid by an English man he would not identify to allow the monument to be erected.

Baird told The Independent newspaper he thought the monument was appropriate, despite Hess's responsibility for the persecution of the Jews and other Nazi war crimes, because he believed he was on a mission of peace when he flew to Britain in 1941.

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