People don't forget, do they? - Rudolf Hess

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People don't forget, do they?

Rudolf Hess

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About Rudolf Hess

Walter Richard Rudolf 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 World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace at the Nuremberg Trials. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in 1987.

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Alternative Names: Rudolf Walter Richard Heß • Rudolf Walter Richard Hess • Conscience of the Party • Rudolf Walther Richard Hess • Alfred Horn

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Adolf Hitler Fritz Thyssen Hermann Göring Baldur von Schirach Joseph Goebbels

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The units of the Waffen-SS, consisting of National Socialists, are more suitable than other armed units for the specific tasks to be solved in the Occupied Eastern Territories due to their intensive National Socialist training in regard to questions of race and nationality.

The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!

My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.