Rudolf Hess – deputy of the Nazi party who, in 1941, flew solo to Scotland with the stated intention of negotiating peace between Germany and the UK.
Arrested and imprisoned immediately until the Nuremberg trials – Speer received the harshest and longest prison term, surpassing the likes of Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer (both much bigger players in the war, both receiving 20 years).
Repeated attempts to release Hess, or commute his sentence, were aggressively denied and in 1987, supposedly hanged himself at age 93.
Why?
(I personally believe Hitler sanctioned the flight , entrusting Hess’ with some sort of peace deal.
A peace deal which, given Hitlers warm disposition to the British, may have proposed such favourable terms, that the British war machine would be undermined, and people declining to take up war when peace was but a signature away).
Posted by noctenaut
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Fuck Nazis
Interesting. Must have broken his loyalty and got punished
Hess very likely took it upon himself to try and broker a peace deal. Largely due to his obsession with the occult. (He was pretty strange and “out there”) I don’t think we will truly ever know for sure if Hitler knew about the mission or not. I believe someone knows for sure but it will likely never be revealed to the public. The fact that he was Deputy fuhrer of the Reich is the reason he could not ever be freed. He just posed to much of a risk to let go. Personally, I don’t believe he committed suicide. The killing of Hess put a lot of things “to rest” once and for all.
Edit: So why kill him at 93? Because if he would have “committed suicide” at a young age people would have always believed that he didn’t actually kill himself. At age 93 it’s still iffy to people but to a lesser extent. They basically kept him alive long enough to be able to kill him without many questions. More Plausible deniability. Also, I believe they chose suicide specifically instead of letting him die in his sleep. This is because generally suicide is seen as the “cowards way out”. It was all about not creating the man a maryter to the cause of nazism. (Suicide was in direct contrast to nazi beliefs. They were supposed to fight until the bitter end)
You randomly start talking about someone called Speer in your second paragraph with no introduction
He probably did Nazi that coming
[Harmonic Convergence – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence) Maybe he did it.