Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess, also spelled Heß (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, where he was arrested and became a prisoner of war. Hess was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served a... More

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  • Apr 26, 1894

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  • Aug 17, 1987 (age 93 years)

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  • Rudolf Walter Richard Hess

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  • 1987

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  • His abortive flight to England might have shortened the war.

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  • politics and government

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  • politician

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