Flying alone over enemy airspace to sign a peace deal without government sanction just doesn't seem like sane behavior to me.
2006-08-31 13:37:30 · 7 answers · asked by Black Sabbath 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
All of the nazi's were as far as I am concerned.
But officially no.
Accordingto history, he was trying to broker a peace deal with a Scottish aristocrat to start the ousting of Primier churchill and to bring nazi Germany and England together.
2006-08-31 13:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, just like every other Nazi. However, Rudolf Hess was the only guy to cry while watching footage of the Holocaust during the Nuremberg Trials. He was an anti-Semite but he wasn't a big one; Hess never liked the idea of exterminating Jews.
2006-08-31 15:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think maybe Hess was "played" by British intelligence. I think the supposedly pro-German British aristocrats he was in touch with set him up at the direction of MI6. They made him believe a peace deal was feasible through intermediaries in Geneva. The goal of MI6 was to have a conduit into the Nazi leadership, but they overplayed their hand and Hess impulsively came to meet his contacts with a proposal.
From every account I've read Hitler was genuinely enraged by Hess's treachery, so I doubt Hitler had any foreknowledge of his intentions. After the war MI6 was understandably reluctant to reveal their trade-craft or that they overdid it, so they made Hess out to be a kook.
It was actually the Soviets that insisted he remain in Spandau. They probably resented him for attempting to break up their alliance with the Anglo Americans.
2006-08-31 17:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all it WAS sanctioned by the Nazi party and Hitler. Secondly he wasn't trying to achieve a "peace deal". He was trying to get the royal family in England to ally themselves with Nazi Germany against the rest of Europe and the U.S.A.
Odd thing; the facts and contents of his offer to England have NEVER been revealed.
2006-08-31 13:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,he was on a secret order by Hitler to try and achieve peace.Secret because Hitler was not sure that it would succeed.And he spent the rest of his life in jail even though he had nothing to do with the holocaust and the atrocities.
2006-08-31 14:36:56 · answer #5 · answered by Mac 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you without ANY doubt that he wasn't as bad off as GW!
Now, THERE'S a sicko!
2006-08-31 13:49:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
whether he was ill or not, i think his incarceration was overkill!
2006-08-31 13:43:50 · answer #7 · answered by Shangri-La 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋