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While still in custody as the only prisoner in Spandau, he hanged himself in 1987 at the age of 93. After his death, the prison was demolished to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. His grave, bearing the inscription "Ich hab's gewagt" ( I dared it ), became a site of regular pilgrimage and demonstrations by Neo-Nazis.
Feb 9, 2010 · Rudolf Hess, a Nazi leader and Hitler’s former deputy, was found strangled to death in Spandau Prison in Berlin. He had participated in Hitler’s failed coup in 1923 and tried to negotiate peace with Britain in 1941.
Jun 24, 2024 · Rudolf Hess died in Spandau Prison in West Berlin, where Nazi officials who had been sentenced to imprisonment at the Nürnberg trials were housed. From 1966 until his death in 1987, Hess was the only prisoner at Spandau.
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- An early member of the Nazi Party, Rudolf Hess participated in the abortive Beer Hall Putsch in Munich (1923), transcribed and edited Adolf Hitler’...
- The death of Rudolf Hess was officially ruled a suicide. According to a report by the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police, He...
- Rudolf Hess is most famous for undertaking a secret solo flight from Bavaria to Scotland in May 1941 to deliver proposals for peace between Germany...
Aug 18, 1987 · Rudolf Hess, the onetime deputy to Hitler who early in World War II parachuted into a Scottish meadow in what he called an attempt to make peace between Nazi Germany and Britain, died yesterday in...
Learn about the eccentric Nazi leader who flew to Scotland in 1941, spent decades in prison, and died under suspicious circumstances. Explore his obsessions, personality, and role in the Third Reich.
Rudolf Hess was a deputy leader of the Nazi Party and a personal aide to Adolf Hitler. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes at Nuremberg, but committed suicide in 1987.
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Aug 18, 1987 · Rudolf Hess, once Adolf Hitler’s devoted aide and the last known surviving member of the Nazi leadership, died Monday in West Berlin’s Spandau Prison for war criminals, where he had spent 40 years...
