“the fastest way to win the war.”
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Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer 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 the Second World War. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still se…
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politics · German Nazi politician (1894–1987) · politician · aircraft pilot · merchant · also Rudolf Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard Heß, Conscience of the Party, Rudolf Walther Richard Hess, Alfred Horn, Rudolf Walter Richard Hess
Born 26 April 1894 · Died 17 August 1987 · Q75866
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2026· 3 entries
“I knew that there was only one way out – and that was certainly not to fight against England. Even though I did not get permission from the Führer to fly, I knew that what I had to say would have had his approval. Hitler had great respect for the English people ...”
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“the Pole is less susceptible to the infliction of ordinary punishment”
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2012· 1 entry
Led to questions again being asked as to whether Hess had been murdered
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2011· 1 entry
Authorities refused to renew the lease on the gravesite, so his remains were exhumed and cremated, and the gravestone was destroyed
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1989· 1 entry
The available evidence did not back up the claim that Hess was murdered, and Solicitor General Sir Nicholas Lyell saw no grounds for further investigation
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1987· 3 entries
Died 1987-08-17.
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“Opis: Dariusz Baliszewski o tajemniczej podróży Rudolfa Hessa na wyspy brytyjskie podczas II wojny światowej.”
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At an estimated annual cost of DM 800,000
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1973· 1 entry
The Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban charged that Hess was not being treated as badly as his champions claimed and that he should serve his full sentence
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1967· 2 entries
Wolf Hess founded a society that by September had collected 700 signatures on a petition calling for Hess's release
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Wolf Rüdiger Hess began a campaign to win his father's release, garnering support from politicians such as Geoffrey Lawrence in the UK and Willy Brandt in West Germany, but to no avail, in spite of the prisoner's advance
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1957· 1 entry
Deemed that Hess was not ill enough to be transferred to a mental hospital
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.
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1946· 1 entry
Which he had been unable to deliver in full after the judges cut him short
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1941· 1 entry
That an attack on their country was imminent
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1938· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Red Arrows (1938).
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To the Secret Cabinet Council and to the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich in August 1939
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1937· 1 entry
Hess blamed the Spanish Civil War on "international Jewry", called the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov a "dirty Jew", and claimed that without Hitler or Mussolini, "Jewish Asiatic Bolshevism would dominate Europe
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1933· 5 entries
Career landmark: Reichsminister (1933).
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Hess founded the Volksdeutscher Rat (Council of Ethnic Germans) to handle the Nazi Party's relations with ethnic German minorities around the world, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe
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It promoted Konrad Henlein as the politician with the best hope of building a Nazi-friendly party that would win mass support without being banned by the Czechoslovak government
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Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War
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Career landmark: Deputy Führer (1933).
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1930· 1 entry
Hess became the owner of a BFW M
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1920· 1 entry
At a Munich rally, Hess became completely devoted to him
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1919· 2 entries
Enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ('living space'), which became one of the pillars of Nazi ideol
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Hess enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), where he studied history and economics
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1911· 1 entry
To study at the École supérieure de commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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1897· 1 entry
And his sister, Margarete, was born in 1908
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-04-26.
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