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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II , he was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed on the prisoners of the Auschwitz ...
By Bob Gordon. In October 1939, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill famously described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”. The same could be said of Rudolf Hess, the Nazi leader and Nuremberg war criminal who spent the last four decades of his life in Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Aug 19, 1987 · Rudolf Hess, the onetime Hitler deputy who died Monday after 40 years in Spandau Prison, probably committed suicide with an electrical cord, an official statement said today. The joint statement ...
Oct 1, 2021 · Rudolf Hess (52), Hitler’s former deputy, who flew to Scotland during the war to propose peace terms. Guilty on counts 1 and 2. Guilty on counts 1 and 2. Imprisonment for life.
In 1919, Rudolf Hess was demobilized in Munich after four years of war. Like many other Frontkämpfer, he was restless and disoriented, in Douglas-Hamilton’s words, “a fanatical young man in ...
- Gordon A. Craig
Hess spent 40 years complaining of the food and his health at Spandau Prison in western Berlin before he succeeded at what he’d tried twice before. He hanged himself with an extension cord on ...
Jan 22, 2019 · Hess was captured after flying to Scotland in 1941 and sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg trials. He was found hanged in the Berlin jail in 1987 at the age of 93. Alamy
