Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess exhumed from ‘pilgrimage’ grave
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Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess
exhumed to prevent visits from
neo-Nazis to grave-site
The remains of Rudolf Hess were exhumed from a graveyard in the small town of Wunsiedel, southern Germany. The remains will be cremated and scattered at sea to prevent growing visits to the grave-site be neo-Nazi groups.
Rudolf Hess during his trial at Nuremberg
The local Lutheran church which supervises the cemetery gave its permission for the burial at the time of his death, ruling that the wishes of the deceased could not be ignored, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports.
But they and local people have since become concerned by the number of far-right groups visiting the grave. Each year on the anniversary of his death, neo-Nazis have attempted to staged a march to the cemetery, saluting the grave, with its epitaph “I dared” and laying floral wreaths.
A 2005 court order banning such gatherings had little effect so the church decided to terminate the family’s lease on the grave.
Rudolf Hess was a top adviser to Hitler
Rudolf Hess was one of Hitler’s closest aides, but in 1941 he parachuted into Scotland in an apparently authorized solo peace mission, which was denounced by Adolf Hitler. After questioning the British decided Hess was insane.
He was imprisoned by the British for the duration of the war, and jailed for life at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He spent 40 years in Spandau Prison in Berlin.
He was the last remaining inmate at the prison when he was found hanged there in August 1987.
Spandau prison – Eventually home to one man
Editor’s note – The life of Rudolf Hess embraced World War II, his imprisonment, the Cold War and his bones are touched by the rise of neo-Nazi and right-wing hate groups, full circle.
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Like all Nazis Hess was a lying scumbag. He was only trying to save himself. Hitler most certainly wanted Britain to fall to the 3rd reich. He was tried and sentenced to life in prison where he hanged himself with an electrical cord. He was 93 and was the last nazi in Spandau Prison. THe prison was destroyed so that no one would make it a nazi shrine.
I don’t think it was authorized. As a matter of fact, although Hitler didn’t really want war with Britain, it is said that he flew into a spitting rage when he heard that Hess had taken it upon himself to make peace overtures to the enemy, ideology notwithstanding.