Rudolf Hess travelled to England in 1941 to try to broker peace with Great Britain; he offered that Germany should withdraw from most of what was then Nazi-occupied Europe in exchange for Britain's promise to support Germany in its war against the Soviet Union. Captured by a farmhand after he parachuted into Scotland, Hess was eventually taken on Winston Churchill's orders to the Tower of London, and was kept imprisoned, first in Wales and then in Cornwall, for the remainder of the war. In 1946, he was convicted by the International Military Tribunal of crimes against peace and conspiracy with other German officials to commit crimes. Unlike his former co-conspirator Goering, however, Hess was not found guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was held thereafter in Spandau Prison in West Berlin (eventually becoming its sole inmate after the release of Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach in 1966), until his death on 17 August 1987 at the age of 93. He was buried at Wunsiedel, and the prison was demolished to prevent it from becoming a shrine for neo-Nazis.
He was captured by the British in 1941 and detained at the Maindiff Court Military Hospital in Wales. Then Hess became a defendant at the Nuremberg Trials from October 1945, where he was sentenced to life-long emprisonment.
He eventually died in 1987 in the Spandau-prison in Berlin at age 93 of suicide by asphixiation.
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
i am a descendant of Rudolf hess he is my great-great-great grandpa along with my sister and brother. He hung him self in his cell.
Rudolf Hess was 20yrs of age when he joined the German Army he was injured twice and killed at least 1,200 enemies in the time it took him to reach his rank of Leiutenant before he became a German Pilot.
Rudolf Walter Heß' official title before he lft Germany was deputy Fürher, other wise known as Stellvertreter des Führers.
Rudolf Hess's birth name is Hess, Walter Richard Rudolf.
Rudolf Hess had one child, Wolf Rudiger Hess.
Rudolf Hess was born on April 26, 1894.
Rudolf Hess was born on April 26, 1894.
Rudolf Hess is 5' 9".
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess was a member of the Nazi Party and close to Hitler .
Walter Rudolf Hess was born on March 17, 1881.
Walter Rudolf Hess was born on March 17, 1881.
Rudolf Hess died on August 17, 1987 at the age of 93.
Rudolf Hess died on August 17, 1987 at the age of 93.