Rudolf Hess: Difference between revisions

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After a year there, Hess took an apprenticeship at a trading company in Hamburg

Hess enlisted in the 7th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of [~~http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_I~~ World War I]. He was wounded several times over the course of the war, and won the Iron Cross, second class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no combat in this role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of ''Leutnant der Reserve''.

Hess enlisted in the 7th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of [[World War I]]. He was wounded several times over the course of the war, and won the Iron Cross, second class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no combat in this role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of ''Leutnant der Reserve''.

In autumn 1919 Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under [[Karl Haushofer]], a proponent of the concept of ''Lebensraum'' ("living space"), which later became one of the pillars of the [[Nazi Party]] (National Socialist German Workers Party; NSDAP) ideology. Hess joined the NSDAP on July 1st, 1920 as a member of the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' and was at Hitler's side on 8 November 1923 for the [[Beer Hall Putsch]], a failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Germany. Whilst serving time in jail for this attempted coup, Hess helped Hitler write his opus, ''Mein Kampf'', which became a foundation of the political platform of the NSDAP.

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 After a year there, Hess took an apprenticeship at a trading company in Hamburg
-Hess enlisted in the 7<sup>th</sup> Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_I World War I].  He was wounded several times over the course of the war, and won the Iron Cross, second class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no combat in this role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of ''Leutnant der Reserve''.
+Hess enlisted in the 7<sup>th</sup> Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an infantryman at the outbreak of [[World War I]].  He was wounded several times over the course of the war, and won the Iron Cross, second class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no combat in this role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of ''Leutnant der Reserve''.
 In autumn 1919 Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under [[Karl Haushofer]], a proponent of the concept of ''Lebensraum'' ("living space"), which later became one of the pillars of the [[Nazi Party]] (National Socialist German Workers Party; NSDAP) ideology. Hess joined the NSDAP on July 1<sup>st</sup>, 1920 as a member of the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' and was at Hitler's side on 8 November 1923 for the [[Beer Hall Putsch]], a failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Germany. Whilst serving time in jail for this attempted coup, Hess helped Hitler write his opus, ''Mein Kampf'', which became a foundation of the political platform of the NSDAP.