Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess in 1938 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO last month, 93-year-old Rudolf Hess died at Spandau, where he had been the sole prisoner for more than twenty years. He had been incarcerated for almost half a century, since his crash landing in Scotland in May, 1941. Hess flew to Britain hoping that Germany…

Despite its obvious anti-German bias, this contemporary piece gives us insight and makes us think about what might have been had Britain been led by patriots in 1941. Introduction by Mark Weber: On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess made his daring flight from Germany to Britain in a vain bid to stop the tragic…

Rudolf Hess THIS WEEK marks the 32nd anniversary of the day Rudolf Hess was murdered after 40 years of solitary captivity at Spandau Prison in Berlin. I share with you an excerpt of his son Wolf’s address, presented by video recording at the Eleventh IHR Conference, October 1992, in Irvine, about his…

Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler’s deputy flew to Scotland in 1941 on a peace mission and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. But some asked if the man in Spandau was really Rudolf Hess. Now a DNA test says he was. IT IS ONE of the greatest remaining conspiracy theories of the second world war. In May 1941,…

H&D‘s ASSISTANT EDITOR Peter Rushton addressed a rally in Berlin on Saturday 19th August, calling for the release of official British documents reporting on the death of Rudolf Hess, thirty years ago this week. More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Spandau district of Berlin, close to…