Rudolf Hess

The remains of Rudolf Hess, a Nazi who was once Hitler's deputy, were exhumed this week in an effort to halt pilgrimates from neo-Nazis. Karl-Willi Beck, the mayer of Bavarian town Wunsiedel, where Hess had been buried, said that the process began Wednesday. He was vague about where Hess' ashes would be scattered, revealing only that they'd be spread over a lake. Hess famously flew his own fighter plane to Scotland, where he hoped to negotiate peace between Britain and Germany in 1941...Read Full Story

It seems that even though the Nazi movement ended in an embarrassing defeat and their leader took his own life the radical movement still lives on although in fewer numbers. The neo-Nazi cult has apparently grown in recent years and has caused Germany’s Protestant Church to take some drastic action to stop Nazi pilgrimages to the burial site of Hitler’s right hand man Rudolph Hess. The cemetery in northern Bavaria has been home to some of the largest present day Nazi rallies in Germany and...Read Full Story

Rudolf Hess , Nearly 24 years after his death, Nazi bones have been dug up and burned. The remains of Rudolf Hess, deputy and confidant of Adolf Hitler, were secretly exhumed Wednesday morning, burned and then scattered at sea, in the joint agreement of their families and church authorities in the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel, Germany. “It’s what to do,” said Mayor Karl-Willi Beck, according to the New York Times, but did not provide detailed information about the movement. After serving in...Read Full Story

The grave of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess is seen in Wunsiedel, August 16, 2000 Reuters Yesterday morning, the bones of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, were exhumed from his grave in southern Germany. The bones were then cremated and scattered at sea, cemetery administrator Andreas Fabel told the Associated Press. This comes in response to the use of Hess' grave as a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Rudolf Hess was once third in command of the Nazi regime, behind Hermann...Read Full Story

Rudolf Hess’s flight to Britain during World War Two in a bizarre attempt to secure peace was backed by Adolf Hitler, fresh documents claim. History has long recorded that the Nazi number three was acting alone when he piloted a Messerschmitt to Scotland in May 1941. He parachuted out over Renfrewshire and was arrested by a farmhand with a pitchfork. Hess was, apparently, trying to contact the Duke of Hamilton to set peace talks with Winston Churchill in motion under his own initiative...Read Full Story