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The Strange Tale Of The Imprisonment And Death Of Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer Of The Third Reich, Whose Last Chance At Glory By Flying Solo To Scotland On May 10, 1940 To Arrange A Fanciful Ceasefire With The British During World War II Resulted In His Imprisonment From That Day On Until His Death Over 47 Years Later -- By Suicide Or, As Alleged In Dr. W. Hugh Thomas' Book "Hess: A Tale of Two Murders", By Murder By The British Secret Intelligence Service (Color, 1990, 48 Minutes.) PLUS BONUS: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: HESS, An Episode Of The Venerable CBS Television History Series Hosted By Walter Cronkite, Which Seeks To Demystify The Bewildering Peacemaking Attempts Of Hitler's Old Comrade-in-arms And Personal Secretary, Whom Hermann Goering Referred To At The Nuremberg Trials As "A Fruitcake" (Black/White, 1957, 22 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD!
Rudolf Hess, German politician and leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, Deputy Fuhrer to Adolf Hitler until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War, Prisoner Of War (POW), convicted of Crimes Against Peace by The Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to life in prison, inmate of Spandau Prison until his death by suicide (or, as alleged, murder) (April 26, 1894 - August 17, 1987) was born Rudolf Walter Richard Hess in Al-Ibrahimiyya, a suburb of Alexandria, Egypt. Hess enlisted as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded several times during the war and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no action in that role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of Leutnant der Reserve. In 1919, Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ('living space'), which became one of the pillars of Nazi ideology. Hess joined the Nazi Party on 1 July 1920 and was at Hitler's side on 8 November 1923 for the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Bavaria. While serving a prison sentence for this attempted coup, he assisted Hitler with Mein Kampf, which became a foundation of the political platform of the Nazi Party. After Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933, Hess was appointed Deputy Fuhrer of the Nazi Party in April. He was elected to the Reichstag in the March elections, was made a Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party in June and in December 1933 he became Minister without Portfolio in Hitler's cabinet. He was also appointed in 1938 to the Cabinet Council and in August 1939 to the Council of Ministers for Defence of the Reich. Hitler decreed on the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939 that Hermann Goring was his official successor, and named Hess as next in line. In addition to appearing on Hitler's behalf at speaking engagements and rallies, Hess signed into law much of the government's legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which stripped the Jews of Germany of their rights in the lead-up to the Holocaust. By the start of the war, Hess was sidelined from most important decisions, and many in Hitler's inner circle thought him to be mad. On May 10, 1941, Hess made a solo flight in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to Scotland, where he hoped to arrange peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, whom he believed to be a prominent opponent of the British government's war policy. The British authorities arrested Hess immediately on his arrival and held him in custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial at the 1946 Nuremberg trials of major war criminals. During much of his trial, Hess claimed to be suffering from amnesia, but he later admitted to the court that this had been a ruse. The court convicted him of crimes against peace and of conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes. He served a life sentence in Spandau Prison; the Soviet Union blocked repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians to procure his early release. While still in custody as the only prisoner in Spandau, and after Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev expressed interest to the other Four Powers members in releasing Hess, he was alleged to have hanged himself in 1987 at the age of 93. Hess's lawyer Alfred Seidl felt that he was too old and frail to have managed to kill himself. Wolf Rüdiger Hess repeatedly claimed that his father had been murdered by the British Secret Intelligence Service to prevent him from revealing information about British misconduct during the war. Abdallah Melaouhi served as Hess's medical orderly from 1982 to 1987; he was dismissed from his position at his local district parliament's Immigration And Integration Advisory Council after he wrote a self-published book on a similar theme. According to an investigation by the British government in 1989, the available evidence did not back up the claim that Hess was murdered, and Solicitor General Sir Nicholas Lyell saw no grounds for further investigation. The autopsy results supported the conclusion that Hess had killed himself. A report declassified and published in 2012 led to questions again being asked as to whether Hess had been murdered. Historian Peter Padfield wrote that the suicide note found on the body appeared to have been written when Hess was hospitalised in 1969. The myth that the Spandau prisoner was not actually Hess arose when Consultant Surgeon to The British Military Hospital in Berlin, Walter Hugh Thomas, examined Hess, and was puzzled that he could not find evidence of Hess' August 8, 1917 bullet wound suffered as a platoon leader of the 10th Company of the 18th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, which was serving in Romania. while fighting in Romania. Hugh Thomas thereafter published the book "Hess: A Tale of Two Murders", that asserted that the man known as Hess tht was imprisoned in Spandau Prison was not Hess but an imposter, that the real Hess had been murdered in Nazi Germany, that the man who flew to Scotland was an imposter, and that the man known as Hess was murdered before he was to be released from prison. This theory was disproved in 2019 when a study of DNA testing undertaken by Sherman McCall, formerly of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Jan Cemper-Kiesslich of the University of Salzburg, demonstrated a 99.99 per cent match between the prisoner's Y chromosome DNA markers and those of a living male Hess relative. Spandau Prison was demolished in 1987 to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. Hess's grave in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany, bearing the inscription "Ich Hab's Gewagt" (I Dared It), became a destination for neo-Nazi pilgrimage and for demonstrations on the anniversaries of his death. To prevent further pilgrimages, the parish council did not extend the grave's lease when it expired in 2011. With the eventual consent of his family, Hess's grave was re-opened on July 20, 2011. The remains were cremated and the ashes scattered at sea by family members, and the gravestone was destroyed.
The Strange Tale Of The Imprisonment And Death Of Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer Of The Third Reich, Whose Last Chance At Glory By Flying Solo To Scotland On May 10, 1940 To Arrange A Fanciful Ceasefire With The British During World War II Resulted In His Imprisonment From That Day On Until His Death Over 47 Years Later -- By Suicide Or, As Alleged In Dr. W. Hugh Thomas' Book "Hess: A Tale of Two Murders", By Murder By The British Secret Intelligence Service (Color, 1990, 48 Minutes.) PLUS BONUS: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: HESS, An Episode Of The Venerable CBS Television History Series Hosted By Walter Cronkite, Which Seeks To Demystify The Bewildering Peacemaking Attempts Of Hitler's Old Comrade-in-arms And Personal Secretary, Whom Hermann Goering Referred To At The Nuremberg Trials As "A Fruitcake" (Black/White, 1957, 22 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD!
Rudolf Hess, German politician and leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, Deputy Fuhrer to Adolf Hitler until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War, Prisoner Of War (POW), convicted of Crimes Against Peace by The Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to life in prison, inmate of Spandau Prison until his death by suicide (or, as alleged, murder) (April 26, 1894 - August 17, 1987) was born Rudolf Walter Richard Hess in Al-Ibrahimiyya, a suburb of Alexandria, Egypt. Hess enlisted as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded several times during the war and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no action in that role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of Leutnant der Reserve. In 1919, Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ('living space'), which became one of the pillars of Nazi ideology. Hess joined the Nazi Party on 1 July 1920 and was at Hitler's side on 8 November 1923 for the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Bavaria. While serving a prison sentence for this attempted coup, he assisted Hitler with Mein Kampf, which became a foundation of the political platform of the Nazi Party. After Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933, Hess was appointed Deputy Fuhrer of the Nazi Party in April. He was elected to the Reichstag in the March elections, was made a Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party in June and in December 1933 he became Minister without Portfolio in Hitler's cabinet. He was also appointed in 1938 to the Cabinet Council and in August 1939 to the Council of Ministers for Defence of the Reich. Hitler decreed on the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939 that Hermann Goring was his official successor, and named Hess as next in line. In addition to appearing on Hitler's behalf at speaking engagements and rallies, Hess signed into law much of the government's legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which stripped the Jews of Germany of their rights in the lead-up to the Holocaust. By the start of the war, Hess was sidelined from most important decisions, and many in Hitler's inner circle thought him to be mad. On May 10, 1941, Hess made a solo flight in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to Scotland, where he hoped to arrange peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, whom he believed to be a prominent opponent of the British government's war policy. The British authorities arrested Hess immediately on his arrival and held him in custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial at the 1946 Nuremberg trials of major war criminals. During much of his trial, Hess claimed to be suffering from amnesia, but he later admitted to the court that this had been a ruse. The court convicted him of crimes against peace and of conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes. He served a life sentence in Spandau Prison; the Soviet Union blocked repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians to procure his early release. While still in custody as the only prisoner in Spandau, and after Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev expressed interest to the other Four Powers members in releasing Hess, he was alleged to have hanged himself in 1987 at the age of 93. Hess's lawyer Alfred Seidl felt that he was too old and frail to have managed to kill himself. Wolf Rüdiger Hess repeatedly claimed that his father had been murdered by the British Secret Intelligence Service to prevent him from revealing information about British misconduct during the war. Abdallah Melaouhi served as Hess's medical orderly from 1982 to 1987; he was dismissed from his position at his local district parliament's Immigration And Integration Advisory Council after he wrote a self-published book on a similar theme. According to an investigation by the British government in 1989, the available evidence did not back up the claim that Hess was murdered, and Solicitor General Sir Nicholas Lyell saw no grounds for further investigation. The autopsy results supported the conclusion that Hess had killed himself. A report declassified and published in 2012 led to questions again being asked as to whether Hess had been murdered. Historian Peter Padfield wrote that the suicide note found on the body appeared to have been written when Hess was hospitalised in 1969. The myth that the Spandau prisoner was not actually Hess arose when Consultant Surgeon to The British Military Hospital in Berlin, Walter Hugh Thomas, examined Hess, and was puzzled that he could not find evidence of Hess' August 8, 1917 bullet wound suffered as a platoon leader of the 10th Company of the 18th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, which was serving in Romania. while fighting in Romania. Hugh Thomas thereafter published the book "Hess: A Tale of Two Murders", that asserted that the man known as Hess tht was imprisoned in Spandau Prison was not Hess but an imposter, that the real Hess had been murdered in Nazi Germany, that the man who flew to Scotland was an imposter, and that the man known as Hess was murdered before he was to be released from prison. This theory was disproved in 2019 when a study of DNA testing undertaken by Sherman McCall, formerly of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Jan Cemper-Kiesslich of the University of Salzburg, demonstrated a 99.99 per cent match between the prisoner's Y chromosome DNA markers and those of a living male Hess relative. Spandau Prison was demolished in 1987 to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. Hess's grave in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany, bearing the inscription "Ich Hab's Gewagt" (I Dared It), became a destination for neo-Nazi pilgrimage and for demonstrations on the anniversaries of his death. To prevent further pilgrimages, the parish council did not extend the grave's lease when it expired in 2011. With the eventual consent of his family, Hess's grave was re-opened on July 20, 2011. The remains were cremated and the ashes scattered at sea by family members, and the gravestone was destroyed.