The Rough Guide to Berlin by Rough Guides

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Language: eng
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RUDOLF HESS (1894–1987)

Devoted to Hitler from the moment he first heard him speak at a rally in 1920, Rudolf Hess marched in the Munich Beer Hall putsch of 1923 and was subsequently imprisoned with Hitler in Landsberg jail, where he took the dictation of Mein Kampf. For a time he was the deputy leader of the Nazi party, second only to the Führer himself. An experienced World War I airman, he flew himself to Scotland in 1941, ostensibly in an attempt to sue for peace with King George VI and ally Great Britain with Germany against the Soviet Union. It remains unclear whether he did this with Hitler’s blessing, but there is evidence to suggest that the Führer knew of Hess’s plans. Either way, he was immediately arrested and Churchill refused to meet him; he was held until sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials. He finally committed suicide in 1987 in his Spandau jail – the only inmate in a jail designed for six hundred – hanging himself on a short piece of lamp flex, aged 93.

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