Rudolf Hess Quotes


History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.


Citations

Hess, Rudolf. Prisoner of Peace. Compiled by Ilse Hess, translated by Meyrick Booth, Britons Publishing Company, 1954.

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Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
  • Born: April 26, 1894
  • Died: August 17, 1987
  • Nationality: German
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Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide in 1987.