Friday, August 17, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1987, Rudolf Hess, the one time Deputy Führer in the Nazi Party, who had been held as the single prisoner in Spandau Prison near Berlin for nearly four decades, killed himself at age 93 by self strangulation with an electric cord. What, he just couldn't stand one more day in prison? Hess was always a weird one and the strangest thing he did was fly to Scotland on May 10, 1941 in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 (from which he parachuted) in an effort, he said, to negotiate a peace between Britain and the Third Reich. Most people who had contact with him just thought he was insane. Probably.
Labels: WWII history; European theater
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:03 AM 
