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Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Rudolf Hess, German Nazi who was Adolf Hitler’s deputy as party leader. He created an international sensation when in 1941 he secretly flew to Great Britain on an abortive self-styled mission to negotiate a peace between Britain and Germany.
Aug 31, 1987 · Two days later authorities revealed that a farewell note in a trouser pocket had confirmed what many had already surmised: Rudolph Hess, the last surviving member of Nazi Germany’s high...
Rudolf Hess—a Life (and Death) Shrouded in Mystery. The former deputy Führer of the Third Reich spent most of his life in prison after a supposed peace-seeking flight in 1941 and died under mysterious circumstances. This article appears in: August 2019. By Bob Gordon.
Rudolf Hess (1894–1987) was a longstanding personal aide to Adolf Hitler, and deputy party leader of the Nazi Party until 1941. In May 1941, Hess flew to Scotland hoping to make peace between Germany and Britain.
Rudolf Hess was one of Adolf Hitler’s longest-serving allies. Hess was born in Egypt in 1894, the son of a wealthy expatriate German businessman. He enlisted as an infantryman in World War I and served on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, where he won the Iron Cross for bravery.
May 10, 2016 · Rudolf Hess, at right, was a Nazi leader when he flew to Scotland in May of 1941. AP. On the night of May 10, 1941, a Scottish farmer named David McLean found a German Messerschmitt...
Rudolf Hess’ Tale of Poison, Paranoia and Tragedy. Why are packets of food that belong to the Nazi war criminal sitting in a Maryland basement?
Apr 8, 2012 · Previously unseen notes of an army psychiatrist reveal how the British tried to get inside the mind of Germany's Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, during World War II in an attempt to get inside...
Jul 22, 2011 · The grave of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess is destroyed and his remains exhumed after it became a neo-Nazi pilgrimage site.
