re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)

Rudols Hess, Deputy Führer (1933 - 1941) hopped in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 in March 1941 and flew to Scotland to attempt a negotiated peace with Britain (he did not have Hitler's approval). He was with Hitler during the 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch" and was sentenced to Landsberg Prison with Hitler and the other future Nazi leaders. While there, he helped write and edit Mein Kampf.

Hess and Hitler at Landsberg Prison



Rudolf Hess, family man



Hitler and his #2, chillin



Hess at the Nuremberg Rally



Hess's wrecked ME Bf 110 in Scotland, March 1941



(L to R) Rudolph Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering sitting in the defendants' box during the Nuremberg trials. 1946



More Hess at Nuremberg:



Hess was given a life sentence for his crimes and sent to Spandau Prison, in the British sector of Berlin, where he remained until 1987. At the time of his suicide, he was the only inmate in the prison.

Spandau Prison



Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer, together in Spandau.



Several photos of Hess from the 1980s:



Hess's "Summerhouse" on the prison grounds. He hanged himself with an electrical cable, inside this room.


Electrical cable used to hang himself


Ambulance hauling his corpse away.



He was originally buried in this grave, but so many neo-Nazis had turned the grave site into a shrine, including attempts to excavate his corpse, that the family had his remains removed and cremated.