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Rudolf Hess Joined The Nazi Party

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Rudolf Hess lived from 1894-1987. He joined the Nazi party as their sixteenth member, and had worked his way from the bottom of the party to becoming Hitler’s 3rd man and deputy Fürhrer. Rudolf Hess stood by Hitler through whatever he did. He proclaimed that everything Hitler thought was the right thing to do and that everyone should listen and respect Hitler, and if they did not, they would be punished. Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt from the late Fritz and Clara Hess. Rudolf had a younger brother, Alfred, and a younger sister, Margarete. The Hess family was very wealthy, so Rudolf and his siblings lived a very good childhood. In 1908, Rudolf was sent to a boarding school in Bad Godesberg, Germany. He was a very …show more content…

Although Hess was very loyal to Hitler, Hess was never given any important roles and his power was limited and was diminishing. Hess was often cut out of important meetings, thus he rarely spoke to Hitler. Hitler once said, “I only hope that Hess never has to succeed me; I would not know who to pity more then, the party or Hess”. This shows Hitler’s lack of confidence and respect in Hess. In order to make himself more important in the eyes of the Nazi party, Hess flew a Messerschmitt ME-110 to Scotland on a peace mission. Though, his mission was cut short twice. One was due to lack of self-confidence, and the other was due to bad weather. On May 10th, 1941, just before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Hess took off from Augsburg at 17:45. He came prepared with an additional two fuel tanks. Hess’s goal was to talk to the Duke of Hamilton to convince the British Government to not attack Nazi Germany so that the Nazi’s wouldn’t be in a two-front war. Once Hess made it within thirty miles of the Duke’s residence, Hess bailed out of the plane and parachuted to safety. He found a farmer and explained to him that he had to meet with the Duke. The farmer took him to the local police station where he stayed for multiple days. On a Sunday morning, Hess met with the Duke and exclaimed he was the Fürhrer’s deputy. Hess explained to the Duke his propositions. The Duke thought Hess was speaking for himself and not for the Nazi regime. Hess was then transferred to London and was to be considered a prisoner of war, as stated by Winston Churchill. Hess was kept isolated for the other inmates, but he was treated very fairly. Slowly, Hess became more and more paranoid. Hess thought the guards added poison and glass to his food, and he would only eat if the food was pretested. On June 16th of 1941, Hess wrote

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