Rudolf Hess Stands Trial in Nuremberg

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Rudolf Hess, who became Deputy to the Fuhrer in 1933 and third in line of succession after Hitler and Goring, flew himself to Britain on May 10, 1941, and parachuted into Scotland, where he was found by a farmer. Hess claimed to be on a mission seeking peace with Britain, but was held as a prisoner of war in Wales until being tried at Nuremberg in 1945. Hess was sentenced to life in Spandau Prison, where he died in 1987.

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