Rudolf Höss person

“before he became president. The offer of a separate peace to the British from Hitler's heir apparent, Rudolf Hess, became the focus of one of the first inter-allied controversies over the response to Nazi crimes. Hess, long one of Hitler's …”

“The British government claimed that Hess was clinically insane, and Hitler disavowed Hess and his mission. To the Soviets, though, Britain's refusal to hang Hess suggested that he might someday be used as a bargaining chip with Hitler. In t…”

“by dignitary Rudolf Hess, Hitler's half-mad deputy who had flown to Scotland in 1941 to cut a peace deal with Britain. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hitler's scar-faced executioner and highest-ranking SS leader, to be tried at Nuremberg. Heimel Schl…”

“courted the SS to obtain labor, contracts, and influence. Oswald's commandant, Rudolf Hoes, confirmed this. His affidavit during his trial states that the concentration camps have at no time offered labor to the industry.…”

“And towards Rudolf Hess, I now think I have a better understanding of why Hitler sent Hess to – on a one-way mission to try to get the British to come to their reasons and not continue with World War II. He sent him up because Hess had met …”

“Instead, Stalin insisted that the senior Nazis, such as Hess, should be tried in an international tribunal as soon as they were captured. The British would not agree. But a few months during the winter of 1942 and 43, it seemed as though th…”

“The British government claimed that Hess was clinically insane, and Hitler disavowed Hess and his mission. To the Soviets, though, Britain's refusal to hang Hess suggested that he might someday be used as a bargaining chip with Hitler. In t…”

“I think it was the Duke of Edinburgh or whoever it was. It was some member of the royal family. He befriended him at the 1936 Olympics. And Hitler sent him on a mission up there to England to try to talk some sense, to try to get like a bac…”