in the years after the second world war there was a solitary former member of Hitler's government who remained inside of shandal prison in his old age Rudolph hes has to many historians of the Decades been seen as a strange Enigma and a man whose downfall was puzzling and bizarre Hess is remembered for being the deputy fura and close friend of the dictator of Nazi Germany and he was as loyal as a dog to Hitler but he attempted to break a piece with the British making a crazy flight which saw him crash land in Scotland without
somehow being shot down H's death inside of shandow prison has attracted a lot of attention over the years as he was 93 at the time of this and there have been many questions raised around this but in the Years following his death Spandau prison was demolished and his remains resumed and were even dug up as there was a huge amount of concern about the activity that was taking place around the grave of Rudolph Hess join us today as we look at digging up the deputy fura and as always to support our Channel please make sure
to click subscribe down below the deputy furer of the Nazi party was Rudolph Hess and he was a man who was blindly loyal and devoted to Hitler ever since the first day he saw him speak in 1920 hes was member number 16 of the Nazi party and to begin with he helped fundraising efforts for the party was even injured as he tried to Shield Hitler from an explosion which occurred at the hofra house but hes would be willing to lay his life down for Hitler and he was involved in the Munich PCH and during this
he had taken a number of hostages and he took them away from Munich but his carelessness cost him as he went to make a telephone call and his hostages then escaped hes was imprisoned for 18 months for his involvement in the failed Revolution and it was he who edited and helped to write Hitler's book Mike comp but he was a skilled pilot who had shown great skill behind an aircraft and this would later become handy for him for his loyalty he was made Deputy fura which was in a sense a ceremonial title meaning he would
step in if something happened to Hitler but chances are that there would have been a huge power plate by many members of the Nazi party if Hitler would have met his demise early and that hes would have been ousted by one of the more forceful characters such as Martin Borman or Herman guring hes was also right slighter and was involved in the planning of the nurenberg rallies each year and he gave the opening speech and would be the one who would introduce Hitler to the huge crowds but despite these ceremonial roles hess's office was involved
in the creation and drafting of the anti-semitic nurenberg laws that imposed strict restrictions on Jewish people within Germany this is often seen as the earliest steps that eventually led to the final solution and the Holocaust but hes was a man who was motivated not by power but by blind loyalty and Devotion to Hitler and the Nazi party he would have done absolutely anything for his friend however as the second world war raged on hes continued to demonstrate anti-semitic beliefs and language and he believed the conflict was began by certain groups of people and he gave
speeches with these undertones Hees as a man was more than just a loyal servant he was Slightly bizarre in his beliefs he was a severe hypochondriac who believed he may have had severe health problems and he brought his own meals when he met with Hitler which upset the dictator but hes was also very paranoid and he had a fondness of the occult but as the war continued he believed he was being usurped in the affections of Hitler because of the war efforts and important ministers and members of cabinet such as vound kol were taking president
over him he was also concerned that a war on two fronts would ruin Germany and because of this he tried to end one of the fronts and to negotiate to end the hostilities with the British he took a message bf-110 the had had been modified on a remarkable flight where he managed to get within 20 mi of his intended destination Hessa dreamed up a scenario where he was a martyr and a peacekeeper and he planned to meet with the dukee of Hamilton and the two could then agree peace on behalf of Britain and NY Germany
but hes was captured by the Home Guard following his Landing in Scotland and when Winston chur was informed that they had the deputy fura under arrest he could not believe it back in Germany there was a huge problem as hit ordered Geral to portray hes as a Madman who had lost his mind the zura was in no mood to negotiate at all and hes had done this behind his back and Hitler then publicly stripped hes of all his party ranks and titles but he went further and ordered Rudolph hes to be executed if he ever
set foot in his Germany again but hes told the Duke of Hamilton that his Landing was as he was on a mission to reserve Humanity he told him that Hitler wanted to end the hostilities with the British but hess's capture was announced to the nation and there was a lot of confusion he was processed as a prisoner of war and was then held inside the Tower of London the infamous Fortress where herry's wives lost their heads and where medieval torture was inflicted hes was of course not tortured was in fact treated very well and was
regarded as a gentleman by the beers who guarded him at the tower and he was then transfer to a mansion in Su for his imprisonment he was psychologically evaluated and it was claimed he was was mentally unstable was very erratic with his behavior on the 16th of June 1942 he even jumped over a railing of a staircase and broke his leg in an attempt to take his life and he was then transferred to a different stricter facility where he was kept under a closer watch for three years but in February 1945 hes made another attempt
on his life and he stabbed himself with a bread knife repeatedly but at the end of the second world war and following the surrender of Nazi Germany Rudolph would be brought to the nurg trials to Stand Accused of a number of charges relating to his time in the Nazi party he was accused of all four charges conspiracy to commit crimes crimes against humanity crimes against peace and war crimes he was a man who to onlookers was not very well and he seemed slightly insane to an everyday person as he would have strange episodes during the
trial and some of his fellow defendants mocked him for this it's possible he may have realized that this could have saved him from The Hangman's noose but he did have a defense which was very strong because he had flown and crash landed in Scotland early in the war this meant he was not in Germany and in the Nazi party when policies such as the final solution were ramped up and imposed upon thousands of people but he was found guilty of two counts and was spared The Hangman's noose and was instead sentenced to life imprisonment when
held inside of shandal prison hes was kept under close watch by guards from different nations and he was known as prisoner number seven and was only given a small ration of paper to write letters with and he was not allowed to converse with other prisoners without permission he was expected to get involved in the chores and was allowed to have walks inside the gardens but as the years went on rules became a lot easier and hes was visited by his family he would throughout the night's cry and wail and he accused guards of poisoning his
meals and continued to try and end his life but he would remain locked up inside of spand for the rest of his life but one by one the other Nazis were released but hes would not be and for him life meant life and despite at the end being allowed to do whatever he wished he died inside the prison walls in September 1979 Rudolph hes was suffering from prostate cancer but he refused to apologize for his actions and on the 17th of August 1987 he was found dead inside of a summer room in the prison's Gardens
it was was claimed that an extension cord had been tied over a window latch then this secured around his neck and found in his pocket was a letter to his family thanking them for what they had done there was a lot of debate surrounding hess's death but in 2019 DNA testing Prov that Rudolph hes was the man who died that day and had been buried as many believed it could have been a body double but following his death Rudolph hes was buried to begin with in what the authorities thought would be a secret location but
did did not take long for neo-nazis to find hess's grave they then held rallies and Gatherings around this because of the attention the German authorities ordered the exclamation of Rudolph hess's body and he was dug up in the middle of the night by authorities was emry intered in v cidal in Bavaria on the 17th of March 1988 this was less than a year after his death and his wife 7 years later was buried with him on the family plot but there were many more issues than that continued regarding the grave of Rudolph hes as yet
again it became a sze of pilgrimage and worship for Neo Nazis and every year on the anniversary of his death groups would visit and hold huge demonstrations it was pure chaos and there needed to be something done with this but the council stated that the permit regarding the lease of the Grave would not be extended when it expired in hess's will he dictated that he wanted to be buried in v cidal as it was where his would spend many holidays was also where his parents were also buried it was a local church who oversaw his
reburial and they declared that it would have been wrong to ignore the wishes of a dead man regardless of who he was but many Nazi symbols would decorate hess's grave site and reefs containing swastikas would be laid on his grave and men were seen performing the Hitler salute around it one member of the local Council claimed the whole town was shut down and in turmoil and there was a huge police presence we at the graveyard were not able to cope the authorities in the area they made the decision to yet again dig up the corpse
of Rudolph Hess for one last time to solve the problem that came with his burial hess's granddau was not impressed with the exclamation as it went against his dying wishes but the council ignored this and then had hes exhumed one resident of the area stated perhaps we will now have some peace when he is gone perhaps they won't come anymore but under the cover of Nightfall the remains of Rudolph hes were resumed again from his grave quietly on the 20th of July 2011 the body was then taken to a nearby crematorium and the body of
H was cremated and was reduced to ashes these were then given to his family members and they were then scattered at Sea the gravestone which outlined his name and had the inscription I had dared written on it was broken up and any reference to the deputy fura and any reference to the former deputy fura was removed from the graveyard the council then confirmed that the grave had been emptied that the body had been cremated and removed and the authorities were glad to see the back of hess's body but Rudolph Hess is still someone who troubles
historians to this day is there are so many questions that exist regarding his policies his personality in his death inside of shandow prison his grave became a shrine following his initial baral and he was dug up a number of times before his remains were finally dealt with to deter and wanted attention but his exclamation was fueled by threats caused by dangerous sections of German society and hes was a man who could have been executed alongside the other Nazis who went to The Gallows at the nurg trials but today nothing exists of the remains of the
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