Rudolf Hess Quotes


How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.


Citations

Hess, Rudolf. Quoted in Hitler by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974, p. 418.

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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.