Rudolf Hess: The Last Prisoner of Spandau

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Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner in Spandau, Berlin, died in 1987. He had been confined inside since 1947 with six other Nuremberg defendants, but by 1966 he was the last one left in a prison designed for 600. Find out how he ended up in Spandau, how he was guarded by the armed forces of four nations, how he lived and his ultimate fate, along with the fate of the building itself.
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@antonkider7360 4 года назад

Early footages of Hess are far better quality than the ones of the 80's

@josephreynolds2374 5 лет назад

It does seem strange that after 40 years imprisonment, a 93 year old just suddenly decided to kill himself.

@denis6408 5 лет назад

That 1941 flight to Scotland was a very strange one...

@slick4401 5 лет назад

It looks like they were guarding a secret, not a man.

@mark12strang58 4 года назад

In Nazi Germany people made a few jokes after he flew to England. One joke mentioned, he was the only German who successfully invade Britain.

@johnnieireland2057 5 лет назад

He knew stuff that none of us will ever know. Obviously.

@geronimo5537 5 лет назад

Strange enough Hess left the Germans in order to broker a peace deal in the early stages of the war. Yet, he served the most time.

@KneeoGeeo 5 лет назад

Geronimo553 strange.

@martinputt6421 5 лет назад

He knew secrets about the German's, the Americans, the Russians and the British that they all wanted kept secret and to do that they locked him away.

@adamb9569 5 лет назад

I never understood why Hess was imprisoned for life while speer was let off with a smack on the wrist essentially

@herbwag6456 5 лет назад

Hess was an interesting character. Too bad he was never allowed publicly to reveal everything he knew. Big loss to history!

@danielfmontero 5 лет назад

I think that was the plan... NO history

@DavidSmith-ss1cg 5 лет назад

Those people had to be sure to earn their nickname, "Perfidious Albion." Hess, as Hitler's deputy, knew about the plan to invade the Soviet Union. He flew to Scotland with a peace proposal. But Churchill didn't want a peace treaty, he wanted to score the "unconditional surrender" like WW1, with the Germans admitting that they started the war, and pay ruinous reparations - the same shit that had caused the second world war. England had already lost ships and many men, and Churchill wanted the win. Millions of lives and billions of dollars from many countries were spent, like pouring your coffee out on the ground. Thanks and Hail to Churchill, the tubby drunk prick that started two world wars and killed close to a hundred million human beings. KBO!

@MIckveli2 5 лет назад

-OHH DO I FREAKIN AGREE.! WHAT A TERRIBLE LOSS FOR HISTORY, ON THE OTHER HAND WHAT HESS KNEW ( with his last 3 hr meeting w/ A.H ) then hess immediately went to his private airstrip & took off. there was a plan (for the British & germany perhaps? some peace agreement.?) we'll NEVER know....

@williamclarke8835 5 лет назад

@@DavidSmith-ss1cg What a moron you are, you obviously haven't read anything regarding WWII and the Nazis

@cyrusthegreat1893 5 лет назад

David Smith I totally agree with what you said about Churchill.

@RaufAbasquliyev 4 года назад

Hess was killed by the British, when Gorbachev decided to release him. He was looking forward to come out and to tell the world the truth about his negotiations with the British. But the truth could seriously damage the image of Britain. So, they decided to get rid of him. They burned all his notes, and we lost some part of history. Maybe important one.

@orgonsolo6291 5 лет назад

It is indeed beyond the mysterious why all the hush hush around a guy who flew over with a peace proposal to have him locked up for life, and then demolish the prison where he was the sole prisoner... What gives?

@Marcfj 4 года назад

Personally, I am of the opinion that there is a very strong possibility that the Allies might have kept Hess in prison for such a long time because they were fearful of what he may have revealed to the public.

@frankmacintyre5191 5 лет назад

I was a British soldier who got to guard Hess in 1980 The summer house he was supposed have to killed himself in was in full view of two of the guard towers , and as all of us on guard were hoping to see the old bastard the fuss was all about I can't understand why he wasn't watched all the time. Also where was his warder that usually trailed behind him ? I believe the Americans were guarding him at the time , has any one of those guys spoke about the day he died ? The 1 thing I remember most about guarding Hess was the standing orders read by an Irish sergeant '' you may only fire your weapon if the prisoner is trying to escape, i.e. , trying to climb the wall''. The sergeant turned to us and said '' the old bastards 80 , if tries to climb the wall call me ,I want to watch''.Hess was a slow , decrepit old man when I was there, I don't know if he had time to kill himself unaided without being stopped . Definitely fishy

@aranksentimentalist 5 лет назад

I heard a great story in college from Nicolas Daniloff back in college about how they smuggled a rocking chair in for him. Every decision at the prison had to be unanimous. The Western Allies wanted to give him a rocking chair, the Soviets said no, and it had to be unanimous. In the period the Soviets were gone the Western Allies brought in a rocking chair. When it was the Soviet turn to be in charge, they saw the rocking chair, and wanted it removed. The Western Allies played dumb, said it had always been there, and refused to have it removed.

@Ericbryanmr 5 лет назад

"He was found to have smothered himself with a pillow before cutting his own throat whilst unconscious." ~ British Intellegence.

@user-tz5uq2bt1s 5 лет назад

Afterwards, he seems to have taken his corpse outside and shot himself twice in the back of the head before disposing of the gun.

@Kosmas.9284 4 года назад

I'm trying hard to understand why someone who set out to make peace can eventually end up in jail for life... what a pity and a historical injustice indeed ...Hess must have been the loneliest man in the world at that point

@morrighanwermarn-arnburg7333 5 лет назад

They couldn't charge him with the Holocaust or any war crimes because he was in an English prison at the time all those things occurred. The only thing they could charge him with was a War of Aggression for invading Poland. How could Russian prosecutors charge Hess with invading Poland when the Russians invaded Poland from the east at the same time Germany invaded Poland from the west? It would have made sense if it was only American, French, and British prosecutors, but it was Russian Prosecutors too. By their own measure they should have convicted Stalin along with Hess.

@rrt4511 5 лет назад

Russia won the war, not USA or fucking france

@frankwhite3406 5 лет назад

It was Uncle Jo Stalin who stopped the Nazi advance in the East then pushed them back to Berlin. Not the Yanks or the Frogs!

@nootnootOW 5 лет назад

@@rrt4511 Russia alone didn't win the war. Had Britain fallen and America never intervened Germany would of been able to have the single front war they always wanted and would have plenty more resources to drive straight through Moscow. While Russia was the main driving factor for an allied victory it wasn't able to accomplish this by itself.

@felixmedina3627 5 лет назад

WELL ,THE RED ARMY INVADED POLAND ONLY WITH THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF COUNTER THE NAZIS INVADERS !

@thebes56 5 лет назад

Felix Medina They wanted half of Poland for themselves. that was the only reason.

@chipmunkhunt 4 года назад

His death was the end of our guard rotations at Spandau. I raced to photograph the front gate of the prison before they tore it down. They didn't want it to become a Nazi shrine

@NathamelCamel 5 лет назад

My grandfather saw the last flight of Heß. It was a glasweigan night and the air raid sirens were silent. He heard a German Twin engine aircraft (he could tell because they weren't synchronised) and saw a Bf 110. Couple days later, in the paper, there it was, Rudolf Heß was captured.

@vsovereign3 4 года назад

Why was he never released? Everyone else at Spandau was released

@pickeljarsforhillary102 5 лет назад

Was he about to testify against the Clintons?

@borjastick 4 года назад

So just what did this guy know or do to make them so afraid of letting him out after a short period? Many other SS colonels etc were given life sentences but were let out after 10 yrs or so. There is something we were not being told.

@worldofjerrytravis393 5 лет назад

I remember that day in 1987. I was in the third form at school in English class when the deputy principle came into the room and announced the death of Rudolf Hess aged 97 at Spandau. I don't know why, but I was the only one in class who knew his name and aware who he was.. Greetings from NZ.

@dolarhyde 5 лет назад

The victor will never be asked if they told the truth.

@Alistair2348 5 лет назад

I was a registered nurse in the royal army medical corps. During one of my tours I was sent to Berlin to look after him along with another male nurse. We were locked in with him on the ward and if we wanted anything we had to ask the MPs at the door as we weren't allowed to leave. We weren't allowed newspapers and all reading material had to be cleared. I think I'm unique as when I first joined the army I was collected every morning I was on an early shift to go and look after Field Marshall Montgomery who was bedridden by this time.

@vincitomniaveritas3981 5 лет назад

Its clear that he was murdered. At that point his physical health was such that he could not even raise his arms normally or generally change clothes by himself...

@thomasmatthewharris1980 5 лет назад

Had it coming

@P7777-u7r 5 лет назад

Why was France one of the 4 powers when they surrendered a few weeks into the war and Canada did way more during the war

@Runenbuch 5 лет назад

he was killed in prison. his son wrote a book about it. very bad number.

@Juanlopez-ww2pi 5 лет назад

"i looked his murderers to the eyes" the book written by its doctor wich testified that secret services killed hid because of the fear he would say some uncomfortable truths

@wojtekkolo3003 5 лет назад

murdered for sure, why would he kill himself at the end of his life?

@rianquinn7833 5 лет назад

Sick of being locked up for so long. It's pretty common among lifers in prison. It's why they have to be so careful that prisoners can't get ahold of anything the can use to kill themselves.

@fragmaster101 5 лет назад

Exactly. The man spent decades in that prison as the last remaining prisoner and he had every reason to kill himself way earlier, it makes no sense to commit suicide at that point. Also it's really fishy that the British were so eager to demolish the prison and delete every shred of evidence.

@simonkevnorris 5 лет назад

Why would they wait that long to murder him?

@Foomba 5 лет назад

At some point, death is the best alternative for some. Not saying this was the case for him but it is a possibility.

@ruckzuruck7039 5 лет назад

Because he was isolated alone and had tried to kill himself on multiple occasions. Why wouldn't you?

@_Patton_Was_Right 5 лет назад

"We defeated the wrong enemy!" Patton was murdered for speaking the truth

@Jebu911 5 лет назад

How was france a major victor in ww2.

@maddyg3208 5 лет назад

Politics, though France was obviously the weak link in the chain

@stevek8829 5 лет назад

They started out an Allie they end an Allie. They got overrun because they bordered Germany. They honored their treaty to Poland.

@EdMcF1 5 лет назад

The late Captain Eric Brown RN, lecturing about his amazing life got to the Occupation Zones in Germany said something like 'The British got the North West, the Americans the South, the Soviets got the East and the French got... Who cares what the French got?'.

@walterschnipsel6334 5 лет назад

@@EdMcF1 Stalin gave the smaler half of Berlin to the yanks and the Brits as a gesture of good will.when the Yanks started the Cold war they gave the French a small piece from the Brits so they cout cover up behind more alieans, as they do everytime when they start wars.

@didnttrywoththisname3315 5 лет назад

Jebu911 major waste of time

@Celisar1 4 года назад

So, these people were sentenced to life but all but Hess got released due to bad health? That’s not only illogic but also very unfair. Why did Hess get a harsher sentence than others when he tried to initiate a peace treaty while risking his life?

@Frobbl 5 лет назад

He was murdered.

@crazeycelt 5 лет назад

well I am one of the few that earned the Army Of Occupation Medal Europe for guarding Hess

@smeepUCA 5 лет назад

Hess tried to end the brother's war and they put him in prison for over 40 years for it.

@1958Shemp 5 лет назад

@GhostshadowShadowghost 5 лет назад

SwafflesLul English and Germans are brothers...? You're a lun!

@ValladolidArde 5 лет назад

@@GhostshadowShadowghost we are all brothers...yeah

@morrighanwermarn-arnburg7333 5 лет назад

Hess had a recurring nightmare. An endless line of coffins with dead children surrounded by weeping mothers, then and endless line of coffins with dead mothers surrounded by weeping children. He had this dream night after night. Churchill refused to negotiate and end the war. So Hess flew to England to try and bypass Churchill and end the war.

@kaloyandraganov9462 5 лет назад

@@morrighanwermarn-arnburg7333 Complete bullshit there is no source saying anything about such dreams other than a few ones who don't say how they obtained it

@davidmbeckmann 5 лет назад

France a " victorious " power?! That is funny!

@paulchristopher3887 5 лет назад

Hess was naive to believe he could broker a peace treaty with Britain.

@ministryoflove7855 5 лет назад

Hess should never have been imprisoned as he was a peace envoy, under the Geneva convention a peace envoy such as Hess can not be held as a prisoner of war. He flew to England to negotiate peace with Britain.

@keithallso9157 5 лет назад

All those soldiers guarding one man !

@k.a.davison9897 5 лет назад

Had a dear friend who passed many years ago. Americans both, we worked together in the clandestine services. There is really no point to this entry other than she was related to Hess and the American branch of the family simply thought of him as Uncle Rudy. In no way am I attempting to rehabilitate Hess's memory but simply pointing out that the worst of us are family to someone, and that this, the humanity is often overlooked.

@stanp362 4 года назад

Looks like his knowledge killed him.

@herbertnorkus6229 5 лет назад

"46 years, stayed true to his faith..."

@danceswithtraffic8147 5 лет назад

I'm not an expert, but I don't feel Hess was more guilty than Speer, so shouldve received the same sentence... I suppose Speer played a better game with his defence at Nuremburg, but still

@Joewylie3 5 лет назад

My take is that Hess knew to much.

@georgehh2574 5 лет назад

Even today justice systems are equally unjust, and power and money influences the severity of sentences

@zang9147 5 лет назад

I read a long book on Nuremberg and the author wrote that he believed Speer got a lighter sentence because he had a more better personal disposition that the others. It was written by a British officer and liaison type guard who interacted a lot with the prisoners. It's been decades since I read that book. I believe the book's name was something like "On Trial at Nuremberg...", although I can't find that on Google.

@watchgoose 5 лет назад

@@fynnoleianson8802 whatever gave you the idea that he was freed? He was in prison until his death.

@watchgoose 5 лет назад

@@Joewylie3 absolutely. Even back in the 50s I remember my father talking about that; he was a Naval officer.

@one4allall4one91 5 лет назад

What else, they killed him to make room for a mall and a parking lot.

@JohnBambooO 4 года назад

He knew who wanted the war. They just made sure he couldnt tell anyone.

@TiagoVoltaire 4 года назад

Goering, Speer and others did not knew?

@peterhildebrand4274 5 лет назад

Have you never wondered why they don't speak of the Russian attack on Poland any more at the outbreak of World War II? I was busy as a book designer for an English schoolbook publisher for many years. And in one book ("History for Standard 10") the writer answered his own question himself: "Actually they should have declared war on Germany AND Russia - but they probably thought very soberly that both were too strong an opponent at the same time." Rudolf Hess would have known a better answer. But imagine: War is declared on only one of two attackers? And following generations are being oblivious of the actual facts?

@gregwilkinson6575 5 лет назад

I was a guard in Spandau prison. Went the 5 different times during my service in Berlin. 4/6 infantry. June 1980-January 1982. I got to admit it was interesting.

@DoubleOddJosh 5 лет назад

I bet the prisoners weren't too thrilled during the months when the Soviet guards took over /:

@fasthracing 5 лет назад

Apparantly they liked it best when the French were in charge because the food was best.

@scottklocke891 5 лет назад

They weren't thrilled.

@jbh5294 5 лет назад

They probably abused him. Never trust a soviet with a grudge .

@emintey 5 лет назад

According to Albert Speer the Food under the Russians wasn't good and he would lose weight when they had the duty, he liked American white bread. It's been a long time since I read his memoirs but I don't recall any specific complaints about his confinement. He initially thought his sentence was just but came to feel it was unfair and hypocritical but of course he was released after he served his years. The idea that the British killed him after all those years is absurd. Oh, and the guards tended to help him smuggle letters out.

@davidleonard3887 5 лет назад

Really the Soviet were the best they just left them alone

@GaiasWunderkind 4 года назад

Give us the "Rudolf Hess files" (2017) already!!!!

@thepub245 4 года назад

Speer was released early and his was arguably a more serious criminal involvement.

@BackSeatHump 5 лет назад

I worked at RAF Gatow during the late 1970's. It was said that when the Russians guarded Spandau they removed all of Hess' creature comforts.

@davidsmith2356 5 лет назад

He knew the truth..

@redrobur68 5 лет назад

Very interesting, as always. Especially the description of the daily routine. By the way, Goering basically thought Hess was an idiot, and he was extremely embarrassed if he had to sit next to him during the Nuremberg trials or if Hess spoke. This is clearly visible on many film shots of the processes :) .

@badmeme486 5 лет назад

My friend went to the crash site in Eaglesham and believe it or not, he found a scrap of metal with a rusty bolt in it about 5cm^2. He thinks it is probably from Hess' plane.

@jessiejameslow8906 5 лет назад

Spent 40 years in jail then commit suicide? If he wanted to commit suicide he wouldn't have waited and suffered for 40 years then seek release through suicide. Doesn't make any sense

@Pantokrator1 5 лет назад

The way Hess was treated, after arriving under a peace mission, was an absolute disgrace. I'd say if he had been permitted to write a book, a lot of what we suspect now about world governments, would have be confirmed.

@newlam7958 5 лет назад

Hess has never watched a television until 1969 for the first time when he had to be hospitalized for an illness. He had a TV in his private room. They let him keep the little TV to bring back to Spandau.

@cyberhermit1222 4 года назад

His own nurse in the prison wrote a book about his murder.

@zeldera 4 года назад

the level of security for him probably meant he was capable of speech that had dirt on someone powerful and very much alive

@fulanitoflyer 5 лет назад

man, I love the 80's BBC 2 feel to this channel.

@tomjustis7237 5 лет назад

Why was this one man kept imprisoned for so long when he had been in British custody for most of the war? Others of high rank who served Nazi Germany to the bitter end were released from prison early while he was left to rot. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but I can't help wondering who was afraid of what he might reveal if he had been released and was free to talk. Was there more to his "peace trip" than we have been allowed to know?

@ursulareeg1171 5 лет назад

$600,000+ per year was the cost per year for the allies to guard Hess. Bill forwarded to Germany. Milk, milk, milk. Insane.

@stranraerwal 5 лет назад

having such a huge platform of world-renowned historians exchanging their important views is simply great and rewarding !

@stupidphone101 3 года назад

Mark you have an amazing group of World War 1 history and also an outstanding overview of World War 2. It's been a pleasure watching your uploads

@peter455sd 5 лет назад

The man who knew too much

@jussitarponen1919 5 лет назад

it was a bad joke to keep him in the prison so longhe should have been set free at the sama time when Speer and Schirach got free

@norberthofer5830 4 года назад

Hess was a very dangerous person, not for what he did but what he knew. The truth can’t be allowed to be told and he needed to be eliminated before they had to let him go. It’s very obvious someone was very scared of what he had to say. It’s a shame he wasn’t allowed to write a book on his experiences an knowledge.

@ReptilianLepton 5 лет назад

Why censor the newspapers, though? What could his learning the fate of other Nazis possibly do to hurt the allies?

@jasonweaver6524 4 года назад

To: 0:25 Hess was never deputy leader of Germany, but deputy leader of the NSDAP, the party that is being referred to as the "Nazi" party.

@NorceCodine 5 лет назад

In 1987 Gorbachev was the Soviet Premier. I bet he unexpectedly told the Brits that he's letting Hess go free ...(!)

@ronnierelyea6895 4 года назад

I was stationed in Berlin with the US Air Force from 1985 - 1992. One of our cooks in our chow hall used to work at Spandau Prison preparing his meals.

@jogoe2865 5 лет назад

Question more is, what did Hess know about the political Situation from this time, that they had to hide and isolate him from public. That the official story is not so true, as they claim it? The sentece what they gave him was way out of relation.

@MultiWalrus1 4 года назад

"Just popping out to Hessco's." I'd love to have a valid reason to say that one day.

@wholeNwon 5 лет назад

I seem to recall something to the effect that Hess had lost a rib in WW I but a chest x-ray shown to the public when he was hospitalized with pneumonia during his imprisonment had all of the ribs intact. When his wife visited she was not allowed to ask any family-related questions. Myths?

@MrBiggrim 5 лет назад

My old man guarded him one time. While the French, US and Brits allowed him access to general comforts such as Radio TV etc etc, the Russians, when it was their rotation, first act was to move him to a cell with nothing but the bed table and chair. No home comforts. They were not so generous to the old Nazi.

@theeNappy 5 лет назад

If the British wanted to assassinate Hess, they sure took their time getting around to it, and then chose to stage a suicide for a nonagenarian in failing health...

@danielfmontero 5 лет назад

Lady Di

@MrLukasboys 5 лет назад

That's the thing with conspiracy theories, they only makes sense in the world of the theorist.

@artisto0 5 лет назад

Well, they would rather to just ‘terminated’ him instead of paying hefty sums of maintenance for just 1 prisoner don’t they?

@pellepet2 5 лет назад

need of a parking lot!

@JimEwing516 5 лет назад

He was going to be released.

@ThunderFalcon333 4 года назад

Some things we will never know. .

@oleksiysaiko5859 3 года назад

Just visited Spandau castle last week. The place where Hess spent time in Prison , was destroyed :( There’s huge Kaufland store in this place now.

@metronetrail 5 лет назад

I did guard duty their in 1987 British Army, 10 days - only caught a glimpse once the whole time i was there.

@Saka22777 5 лет назад

Jepp

@barryguyer8306 5 лет назад

Yeah sounds like someone is full shit.

@Primal-Weed 5 лет назад

What a load of crap.

@realcritical-kr2dd 5 лет назад

I've worked their in the prison for 40 years since the day he stepped in and the day he died their 1947 - 1987

@danielmella4613 5 лет назад

bette

@1keykneedeep 5 лет назад

Great Video Mark. Your passion for history shows in your work. 👍👍

@williamdavis4315 4 года назад

Very interesting,,,,,,I did a tour in Germany 83-85 and never knew he was still alive

@Ninnoa 5 лет назад

I see him as a man who risked everything for the peace. Since he spent entire war in prison I don't understand why he was sentenced for life after the war.

@sarahjames927 5 лет назад

Still amazes me how Speer got out. 😔

@reidbronson6358 3 года назад

My big brother, Jim, was that lone officer one month when the USA was guarding Hess. Jim was a brand new Army Second Lieutenant from Florida State ROTC. Apparently, no Officer wanted this job. So the US Army Commander always gave it to some new young Officer from the States. Jim said Hess was a cold fish. Never would talk to him. So, Jim just left him be. After the month, Jim was glad to get back to his regular duties in West Berlin. After his year in West Berlin, Jim was off to Viet Nam and the 101st Airborne. He retired a full Colonel. He and his wonderful wife, Carolyn, now live outside Indianapolis. He has so many great stories from his time in the Army.

@barryolaith 5 лет назад

Thanks again Mark for a very interesting topic. I believe Hess flew to Scotland in the hope of using his pre-war contact with Lord Douglas-Hamilton, who's family seat is in East Lothian, near Edinburgh, to get an introduction to Churchill and start peace talks. Is this so? Considering this was May 1941, which pre-dates the worst of the Nazi atrocities and genocide of the Jews, I often wondered why he got a life sentence. I think you have answered that with your explanation of the Russian veto on release. I think it was inhumane to keep a person in captivity alone like this for such a long time. I also think that if Hess was going to commit suicide he would not have waited over 40 years. Something not quite right about the whole business. A large section of the fuselage of his airplane is on display in the Imperial War Museum.

@georgehh2574 5 лет назад

He didn't start peace talks, I'm pretty sure he was arrested on arrival.

@MrLukasboys 5 лет назад

May 1941 may have preceeded the worst of Nazi and German crimes, however Hess was still involved in many crimes.

@watchgoose 5 лет назад

@@MrLukasboys he risked his own life to try to get through to someone.

@phugoid3067 5 лет назад

Hess was given a life sentence because he knew the truth about the British. That being that Britain and France wanted war with Germany at any cost. Why would someone be jailed for life because he was a Nazi leader? Especially before even WW2 really got going? This was during the "Phoney War" stage of WW2. Had Hess been released and told all he knew, history would not have been kind to the Brit's "innocent victim" reputation.

@alanbstard4 5 лет назад

peace talks was his aim. sadly they locked him up

@walkersmith947 4 года назад

Ronald Spears 101st airborne (band of brothers) was Governor of Spandu prison.

@zbigniewbiernacki3682 4 года назад

It must be remembered that the English Royal Family had solid German roots. They were given the throne of England by the English Protestants. No Catholics need apply. They changed their name to Windsor. Hess most likely trying to get to England to parlay with the English Royal establishment to try to come to some agreements favorable to both parties.

@KC-UT4rmAZ 5 лет назад

Whatever they may be there's definitely some secrets behind this story. No one gets that sentence in his situation with his treatment without there being some serious secrets being held back on whatever side. All sides.

@aujay 5 лет назад

3:24 Big 'Hess' Foot Footage

@senortrotsky6994 5 лет назад

That man got some eyebrows!

@Joewylie3 5 лет назад

RU-vid's vid. On Hess' final statement at Nuremberg was astounding. He said that he was proud to serve his country, he regretted nothing and whatever happened when he stood before god he was sure that he would be absolved. Odd? Crazy? or spot on?

@jacobfoconi849 5 лет назад

Do you think you could make an video of the kaiser who was living in the Netherlands at the time of his opinions and experience of the second world war! Greetings from Sweden

@GidionApex 4 года назад

Another great video keep history alive my friend

@johnbrownlee2006 5 лет назад

I guarded Hess on 4 occasions lasting 14 days each at Spandau Prison.1983-86 .US,Army Aco.5th /502nd Inf.Berlin Germany.

@LSTWTF 5 лет назад

My history teacher claimed to have been a guard at Spandau I have no reason to doubt him, although we all thought he was a little mad.

@pdxrailtransit 5 лет назад

"Hesscos" now that's a panic! I was born in 1954 and can remember quite a few television reports about Hess in the 60s. It always seemed pathetic and haunting at the same time.

@gma729 5 лет назад

I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING MARK. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO ! 👍👍

@pourlefun 4 года назад

I read a book in high school called "The Murder of Rudolph Hess" - the author apparently a British doctor who examined Hess in Spandau. Based on missing scars, etc... he believed him to be an impostor - and he believed that was a known fact at the highest levels. Lots of other interesting stuff about the flight itself too. Not trying to argue it's true, just saying it would be interesting to hear the book discussed/debunked somewhere.