And Hess didn't take a dump without asking Hitler first, that's why I'm convinced Hitler ordered him to fly to Britain to try to negotiate with the Brits.
That is a belief shared by some that I happen to think is a good possibility.
Hitler liked England. He could have vaporized the troops that escaped at Dunkirk. They were all in a concentrated mass. Hitler made one of the biggest mistake (second only to attacking Russia at the time he did) of the war. he hoped for reconciliation with England to find a way to have them join him in the battle against the Marxists in Russia. Churchill wasn’t buying it.
In the end, Hitler was, as his generals called him behind his back, ‘The Corporal’.