Photo Gallery Rudolf Hess' Infamous Flight
Was Rudolf Hess' infamous flight to Great Britain in 1941 coordinated with Adolf Hitler? Although historians have long believed that the Nazi Party's second-in-command was acting on his own, newly-revealed statements by a senior Hess adjutant have suggested otherwise.
Rudolf Hess (right) was one of Hitler's most loyal servants. The pair were pictured here at a Nazi party meeting, circa 1939.
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Soldiers stand around the wreckage of Hess's Messerschmitt ME-110 plane from which he had bailed out over Scotland. Hess claimed he had flown to Britain to persuade the government in London to restore peace, but he was later tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Hess (seen here in a 1937 photo) spent his time behind bars at Spandau Prison in West Berlin. He was the sole inmate in Spandau from 1966 until his suicide in 1987.
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