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|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Crimes against peace<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]] | |crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Crimes against peace<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]] | ||
|hobby = Reading<br>Hiking}} | |hobby = Reading<br>Hiking}}{{Quote|I am happy to know that I have done my duty, to my people, my duty as a German, as a National Socialist, as a loyal follower of my Führer.|Rudolf Hess}}'''Rudolf Hess''' (April 26<sup>th</sup>, 1894 – August 17<sup>th</sup>, 1987) was a prominent officer of the [[Nazi Party]] during their regime. Appointed Deputy Fuher to [[Adolf Hitler]] in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during [[World War II]]. He was taken prisoner and eventually was tried for [[war crimes]], serving a life sentence, where he eventually committed suicide in 1987, aged 93. | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Hess, the oldest of three children, was born on April 26<sup>th</sup>, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt, into the ethnic German family of Fritz Hess, a prosperous merchant from Bavaria, and Clara Hess (née Münch). His brother, Alfred, was born in 1897 and his sister, Margarete, was born in 1908. The family lived in a villa on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria, and visited Germany often from 1900, staying at their summer home in Reicholdsgrün (now part of Kirchenlamitz) in the Fichtel Mountains. Hess attended a German language Protestant school in Alexandria from 1900 to 1908, when he was sent back to Germany to study at a boarding school in Bad Godesberg. He demonstrated aptitudes for science and mathematics, but his father wished him to join the family business, Hess & Co., so he sent him in 1911 to study at the École supérieure de commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. | Hess, the oldest of three children, was born on April 26<sup>th</sup>, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt, into the ethnic German family of Fritz Hess, a prosperous merchant from Bavaria, and Clara Hess (née Münch). His brother, Alfred, was born in 1897 and his sister, Margarete, was born in 1908. The family lived in a villa on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria, and visited Germany often from 1900, staying at their summer home in Reicholdsgrün (now part of Kirchenlamitz) in the Fichtel Mountains. Hess attended a German language Protestant school in Alexandria from 1900 to 1908, when he was sent back to Germany to study at a boarding school in Bad Godesberg. He demonstrated aptitudes for science and mathematics, but his father wished him to join the family business, Hess & Co., so he sent him in 1911 to study at the École supérieure de commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. |