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HESS; Victim or Villian?

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  Posted by Slimdaddy101 (U2553470) on Monday, 28th November 2005

  I have never really understood why Rudolph Hess was incarcerated for life. I believe he jumped out over Scotland before the worst excesses of the Nazis were realised. In a way I sort of feel sorry for him, he tried to play the peacemaker and locked up and deemed guilty by association. Can anyone inform me of his crimes?

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  Posted by Trident_MKV (U2431765) on Tuesday, 29th November 2005

  if i remember correctly it was the soviets that wanted to keep him in spandau until he died
  
  we didn't think there was much point keeping him there and were prepared to let him go free
  
  but at the end of the day, deputy reich chancellor, or whoever he was, just can't go free
  
  i'd run a prison for just one guy if that guy was one of hitlers henchmen
  
  he was a nazi, so he was a villain

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  Posted by DL (U1683040) on Tuesday, 29th November 2005

  It is a difficult one.
  
  He was already in Allied hands before the "final solution" got off the ground, so his liability for the holocaust can only be limited. Granted he was a nazi, and had been one since the beginning. At the same time, IMO by the time he went on his lunatic mission to Scotland, I suspect he was off his rocker. If you see any footage of him during the Nuremberg Trials, he seems almost unaware as to what was going on around him. Yes, he was member of a criminal regime, and no doubt collaborated in many acts which the Nazis carried out, but to be left to rot in prison for life? I don't think so, not when members of Hitler's entourage who served him till the end (Speer, Sepp Dietrich being the main examples for me) served a sentence then were released.
  
  He was IMO clinically insane, and should not have been tried until he was mentally fit to do so. Also, the circumstances of his death are a bit suspicious to say the least! Was he murdered in prison? I doubt we will ever know the reason behind his imprisonment, nor will we ever know how he actually died. Suicide, after all that time? I doubt it somehow. He was guilty of being a Nazi, but far less guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity than the likes of Speer.
  
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