biography
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Hess, (Walter Richard) Rudolf
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| lived:
| (1894–1987)
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| biography:
| German politician, Hitler's deputy as Nazi Party leader, born in Alexandria, N Egypt. Educated at Bad Godesberg, he fought in World War 1, then studied at Munich. He joined the Nazi Party in 1920, and became Hitler's close friend and (in 1934) deputy. In 1941, on the eve of Germany's attack on Russia, he flew alone to Scotland to plead the cause of a negotiated Anglo-German peace. He was temporarily imprisoned in the Tower of London, then placed under psychiatric care near Aldershot. At the Nuremberg Trials (1946) he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and remained in Spandau prison, Berlin (after 1966, as the only prisoner) until his death. |
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