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Like how this documentry completely ignores that Britain after the war declared the Hess files sealed for 75 years, than when that time was up, the files were ordered sealed for another 50 years! Why???

Who else is getting tired of invasive advertising on their premium RU-vid subscription? No coincidence they removed the fast forward feature from the screen on your smartphone. Greed knows no end.

I was the American Prison Guard commander in August 1987. I remember that day clearly. The call from my Tower guard, my haste to the scene where I found Hess on the floor in the small outdoor room. I took his pulse, there was none. The American prison guard had gone to get his personal PA and I had called for my medic and the British doctor on call. They all worked to revive him. There were no strange men as his PA asserts. The building was in the open and no one could get to it without my guard or the prison warden seeing them. I watched the medical personnel perform CPR and administer some other treatments to no avail as he was rush to the British hospital. No mystery just an old man deciding it was time to go. End of story.

My father spoke fluent German, and in 1965 was part of the British guard detachment at Spandau Prison. He recounted conversations with Albert Speer, who impressed him with his intellect and grasp of world affairs. Von Schirach rarely made himself as available, and Hess was unreachable. His activities including constant flushing of his toilet (which had to be logged by the Guard Commander); childish games of 'Look what I've found!' (nothing) during his walks in the garden - basically anything which would inconvenience his captors.

To say that there was no reason to believe Hess would attempt suicide is misleading. I guarded him in the early 1970’s and we were warned to notify our immediate officers if he went into the garden shed because he was suicidal. And the shed itself looked nothing like your illustration and was not located at that spot although the one I remember could have been replaced at a later date

I came here to learn about family history. Hess is my great great uncle. My grandmothers maiden name is Hess. I’ve always been told that we were blood relatives to him but never dug any deeper. This documentary helped me understand my family history & I thank you for that.

I used to live a mile away from where Hess parachuted to in Scotland, on 10 May 1941. He landed at Floors Farm, Eaglesham, and was taken to Giffnock Police Station. Its still in use as a police station today. In 1993, a monument was erected on the spot where he landed, but protests followed, and it was taken down. There are photos of it online. Also, if you search ''protests about hess monument herald'' it should take you to a 1993 article in the Herald newspaper.

While serving in Berlin with the 6th infantry regiment,I was part of a platoon guarding the Spandau prison 1958,I can remember Hess marching around the yard below the guard towers,we were never in close contact with the prisoners,that duty was left to personnel from neutral Countries.

I think it will always be impossible to express adequate gratitude to the many who fought to save the world from Nazism. God bless them each and all.

even margaret thatcher would not allow his papers to be released imagine what was in them

Well done !! It is the most complete explanation I have seen/heard!!

i love how the historians tell us what Hess thought. The man was perfectly able to speak for himself but oh no....... couldn't have that.

Hess was also held at Maindiff Court Hospital Abergavenny. My Grandmother was a nurse there and used to look after him. He had a free run of the area and would regularly climb the Skirrid mountain with his guards.

who kills himself at 93? No one could interview him for his entire period in prison.

The death of Rudolf Hess raises many questions, but the one that really intrigues me is: How did Rudolf Hess obtain damaging evidence against Hillary Clinton?

Speer in his book, Spandauer Tagebuch, his prison diary, saw and talked to Hess every day for 20 years when they were outside in the prison yard exercising and working. Speer never implies that he had doubts that the man was not Hess.

I believe whatever happened to Hess while he was in the UK, the British government and secret service wanted it kept secret. In a book I read about him, his family hired an expert pathologist who found that Hess had a fractured hyoid bone (a small c-shaped bone in the neck). A fractured hyoid bone is a classic sign of strangulation. Apparently he was not faking mental illness and genuinely did suffer from what we would now call schizophrenia. He was the last prisoner to be kept in the Tower of London.

His son A R Hess wrote two informative biographies on his father 'My father Rudolf Hess' and 'Who killed my father'. These books provide great insights and contradictions.

At the end of the documentary they said that the Soviets would not release him due to secrets he might have to share with the world. But then all of the sudden, after so many years in captivity, he decides to "hang himself" while the Soviets are in charge of his care.. after his being incarcerated for over 50 years. Without one single attempt at suicide the entire time. This is not conspiracy. This is truth...

31:53 No one was more surprised when Hess dropped out of the sky in his parachute than a group of Scottish guard-cows, but they quickly recovered their wits and took him into cud-stody.

If Hess's time had been a little later, he probably would have loved Scientology.

He knew of many co-operations and peace conversations between the UK and the Germans.

This is one of many mysteries of ww2 , we’ll never know what happened. Crazy to believe the second in command at their peak flies to the enemy .

My father was a pathologist who worked with Florey and Chain in Oxford on developing the mass production of penicillin. After Hess was captured, he was brought to Oxford suffering from syphilis and my father treated Hess with penicillin injections.

Excellent report, very thorough. Have wanted to know this complete story for a long time.

Ironically, his trip to Scotland may very well have saved his life. If he had stayed in Germany throughout the war, he very well could have ended up like either the führer himself, Himmler, Goering, or Eichmann.

You don't disable the detail tab before exporting to topaz? I was told somewhere leaving any LRC sharpening/noise reduction in the file causes topaz to not operate properly. BTW, best LR video I've seen since picking up a DSLR around a decade ago.

If he had tried just before Dunkirk he may have been able to make a deal, or at least to get a hearing. After Churchill consolidated power there was no way. Bad timing.

He Got Epsteined

"Keen amateur pilot" ? He'd been a fighter pilot in WW1.....

Let's not forget that when Germany attacked Poland from the East the Russians attacked Poland from the West ,there for; being in partnership with Germany in starting World War 2.

Hamilton's son would need to explain why a busy Group Captain at the height of a world war would drop everything to visit an unknown prisoner giving a false name and claiming to be a friend of his. It's also naive to pretend that Hamilton would not have been able to recognise Hess from photographs.

I am close friends with a descendent of his and as a student of World War 2 History, it's incredibly haunting even looking at him and seeing the resemblance sometimes. P.S. He's nothing like him and not proud. One of the biggest hearts I've ever known.

He spent two days at Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow before being moved to England. My grandad was the QM there

"Not expected" so i wonder why the Duke of Hamilton had left the landing lights of at his privet runway on that night?

Hallo. I have four of those five and use them frequently. No soda stream here. The folding rulers are very useful for their rigidity as opposed to a measuring tape, especially for inner measurements where the little brass extension at the end ensures an accurate measurement. Menards, Lowes, and Ace hardware have them. They are usually in the same aisle with the measuring tapes and squares.

A man who tried to end the war and was imprisoned for 46 years then murdered

Electrical currents are used now in physiotherapy, the Rife machine, Dr. HO electrical devises. They helped me in my healing. So these beliefs were not so oddball.

Both sides were willing to negotiate peace and arranged for Hess' mission, but when it didn't work out they declared Hess insane and sacrificed him. No way he was crazy as this documentary portrays him.

These documentaries are amazing. Hess saw the light.

How could people not get caught up in the hate? You either bought into it or went to jail, executed or a concentration camp. Regular citizens really did not have a choice, how many people in America actually jump in to stop violent crimes in broad daylight? It’s a crazy world and we are a crazy species.

Kept in isolation and finally poisoned in the end to prevent his disclosure .

Great content!!

Fascinating.

I think this doco underestimates the number of people in Britain who considered exploring the idea of a peace/ceasefire with Germany after the dramatically quick fall of France and prior to the German invasion of the USSR. That was the greatness of Churchill, to remove this element within the British war effort.

"He knew he could reach England in this plane" So he flew to Scotland.

A sensible, well put-together piece of work. Well done and thank you, History Net and co-workers.

Thanks. 👍

My dad shouted “it’s a Gerry” ! 😂 classic

Highly recommended book about this mystery: Hess and the Penguins: The Holocaust, Antarctica and the Strange Case of Rudolf Hess Paperback - September 18, 2017 by Joseph P. Farrell

This was great!

I think it just adds more validity to the fact the allies, particularly the british had no intentions of peace

How does Spear get 20 years and Hess gets life??

Prince George, Duke of Kent, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was the younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI. He was killed in a military air-crash on 25 August 1942. CONTINUED AT LINK: The Dunbeath air crash involved the loss of a Mark 3 Short S.25 Sunderland that crashed in the Scottish Highlands on a headland known as Eagle's Rock (Creag na h-Iolaire) near Dunbeath, Caithness, on 25 August 1942. The crash killed 14 of 15 passengers and crew, including Prince George, Duke of Kent, who was on duty as an Air Commodore in the Royal Air Force on a mission to Reykjavik. . Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince have written about the crash in their book Double Standards, which however has been criticised for its "implausible inaccuracy". They alleged that Kent had a briefcase full of 100-krona notes, worthless in Iceland, handcuffed to his wrist, leading to speculation the flight was a military mission to Sweden, the only place where krona notes were of value.One RAF crew member survived the crash: Flight Sergeant Andrew Jack, the Sunderland's rear gunner. Flight Sergeant Jack's niece has claimed that Jack told his brother that the Duke had been at the controls of the plane; that Jack had dragged him from the pilot's seat after the crash; and that there was an additional person on board the plane whose identity has never been revealed. It is alleged the plane was carrying Rudolf Hess. He was being taken to Sweden to make peace between Germany and Britain allowing the German's to fight on one front. www.conspiracy-cafe.com/apps/videos/videos/show/19086521-fbi-files-on-axel-wenner-gren

I am of the mind that these amazing documentaries that share the truth of the past, so that we recognize these traits in the leaders of our times, should be free, as truth should always be treated as freedom.

I've studied nazis for years. I Loathe them with all fiber of my being. But I still can't understand how so many people can blindly follow. For it to grow into something so horrific so horrifying. Terrifies me watching today's politics sometimes. But not to the point were I won't die fighting for what's right, so help me, god. The bigger challenge is to do it nonviolently while showing people what's wrong or pointing to the paths that lead to darkness and no return.

He must have spent the rest of his life in prison absolutely regretting having tried to do that. He might have been able to hide out in Germany and even escape on the rat lines and live out the rest of his life in South America or something but no he basically forfeit and threw away the rest of his life by doing this. That must have absolutely crushed him every single day onward.

The New York World Telegram stopped publishing in 1966 but the video shows it with a headline about Hess's 1987 death?

This is by far my favorite YT channel

What happened to him? He changed his name to Henry Rollins and started a band.

So, what British law did Hess break and why was he imprisoned. Hint: to hide an elite scandal.

Thanks!

He was last seen alive, smoking a cigarette given to him by Lt. Col. Speirs.

“Bombing makes people angry…” y’gotta love the British ability to understate the obvious with a straight face 😂

Thanks a lot, very interesting doc!

42:42 I have scarcely seen a more haunting stare. It's like the look of a death mask.

Timeline is a series devoted to changing history Directed history.

Remarkably fit for his age? He was only 9 years older than I am, yet I can run 5 miles in 57 minutes and in a good light can read a newspaper without glasses, though it strains my eyes so I usually wear them for reading. My running time will no doubt deteriorate in 9 years, and also my eyesight, but it should still be much better than Hess's when I'm 93, so I dont see anything remarkable about his health and fitness.The desperation of the Brits to keep him captive indefinitely is anomalous. Is it a coincidence that he knew some very embarrassing secrets about the British aristocracy?The furtiveness and secrecy surrounding his death to this day are highly suspicious. Home Secretary Dr Owen asked to see his file in the 90s, but was refused.

"Now a masonic meeting hall" how ironic

This channel is a huge let down with adverts every 90 seconds, I give up!

Destroyed by the amount advertisiments.

And who was the governor of Spandau prison? Lt. Ronald Spiers. Easy Co. 506th. Depicted in Band of Brothers.

i never understood why he was given life considering. that he left germany well before her most heinous crimes.

excellent doc

we were posted to berlin when Hess died ,i was based at wavel barracks and the prison was on my bft fitness test route ,when he died that prison was removed and i mean every stone there was just flat sand .it was gone over night ,word went around camp that the russians finished him off on there rotation .

39:20 it’s insinuated that the Haushofer’s deaths were somehow due to no longer having the protection of Hess, but they committed suicide in March of 1946…?

What could this man know that he had to be imprisoned. For so many years. By the time when he was old that would have been so hurtful to Russia..?? May God Bless All!

1979-81 I was stationed in BERLIN, I volunteern to take food to feed our Soldiers at spandau Hoping to get a Glimpse of Hess, 2019 I visited Spandau , its been Torn Down ,

It doesn't make sense that he would wait 'til 1987 to commit suicide...

This is a good documentary. It could be a Great Documentary if there was an addendum on Why British Governments since the end of the War have put his interrogations and time in the UK under lock and key until 2048. There must be something Interesting in that batch of documents?!?! Even if it is conjecture from several historians such as the ones in this documentary, including an additional interview with Ian Kershaw.

I'm English but I still believe that Hess did not deserve or warrant life imprisonment (if it was Hess indeed)

Hess was like Patton - Inconvenient.

Yeah, like no-one has mentioned that the BF110 has a crew of two? even with the modifications old Willy made would make sure another crewman wouldn't be in that plane in such a long trip? Nonsense.

Lol that duke was kinda cute 😂 What I love about that painting is how it's obviously in a tradition but it's done in a fresh style. That gives it hip youthful vitality compared to the very static idealized portraits we're generally used to throughout history

Why was Hess hidden, he wanted peace, but Churchill wanted the war to go ahead. WHY?

great!!!!

A+ EXCELLENT! PERFECT! +++++++++++

To fiction readers: try Spandau Phoenix, by Greg Isles, based on Hess' life after flying to the UK.

my grandfather was one of hess' guards during british captivity.

Writing on son's tablet, I'm Heather . British RAF , my father a British test pilot, recognised in Queen's dispatches for bravery in Cold War period ....and luftwaffe had a high regard for each other...and actually opposed to Nazi's

Hess did not take much part in the war and yet he got a life sentence...why? Treaties are meant to be broken...to this day. So do not give your hopes up when hope is needed

*38:44* Did this happen? *Churchill to Hess* - *So it’s you then who’s the mad man* ? *Hess* - *no I’m only his deputy* It appears to be too good to be true, but if it’s true it’s hilarious 🤣 ❓❓

Very interesting

whatever he had to say .......you can bet youre never going to hear it

Hess had a good point. Britian was a thorn in Germany's side even before the war started. They urged other country to get in on the war before it even started

This video is a cover-up of some very nasty and deeply embarrassing things the winners STILL don't want to be made public. They'd likely would have to invent a brand new narrative.

I can’t stand it when people talk bad about others who aren’t around to defend themselves.

Question remais: IF hess took his own life, a HUGE error in the guarding procedure must have been taken place?

They were all covertly moved to the United States as part of operation paper clip. My family is German and wound up in New Mexico.

His treatment was totally unjust and illegal under ANY other circumstances. If you are powerful enough you don't bother with legality or other silly concepts such as fairness or morality. I don't have any skin in this game but right is right .