Well except Hitler no one likes Hitler... (I stand corrected, many people in the comments like Hitler. Maybe they are the hitler youth who subscribed to his channel.)
Hess: *Was one of Hitler's closest friends , helped him write Mein Kampf during his time in prison and help him during his adventure to rise to power* Also Hess: Crash lands in Britian Hitler: _İ have never met this man in my life_
I imagine the Duke of Hamilton was more than a little curious on why some German crashed his plane, surrendered, and then asked for him in the middle of Scotland.
British : Starve and torture decent people to death in concentration camps in Africa Also British : The Germans interring subversives is inhumane! British : We must preserve Polish independence! Also British : Hands all of eastern Europe over to the USSR, organizes sanctions against the remaining White Africans to starve them into submission to genocidal pyromaniac communist terrorists which leads to mass starvation and civil wars continuing to this very day ... British : American tobacco corrupts the world! Also British : * dumps opium into China *
@@Sturmbannführer88 could you elaborate on churchill please? I was taught he was an admirable man, and that he saved britain in ww2. but now i'm learning king george vi and the british public hated him; which to me explains why he was casted aside so easily, but at the same time, it almost seems like clement atlee pulled a joe biden and won.
The Royal Observer Corps were a vitial part of Britain's air defence too, providing visual reports in areas where radar didn't cover. They carried on through the Cold War, where their WW3 jobs would have been reporting on nuclear explosions from one of 1,563 mini-bunkers. They were basically stood down in 1991 and finally ceased operations in 1995.
"I'm so sorry I flew to Scotland without the Führer's consent in an attempt to negotiate a peace deal between Great Britain and Germany, but I can't help it since I'm such a Gemini~"
Keep at it. It’s a hard language to learn. Hitler was a very brutal leader (as exemplified by the Holocaust and other atrocities) and would have likely had Hess killed due to his betrayal. Hitler was not a man who liked to be undermined.
He was not so much trying to negotiate peace, as trying to recruit Britain into a united front in a war with the Soviet Union. Certainly Britain -- and America -- were just a few years later very open to bringing (West) Germany into a united front in a (cold) war with the Soviet Union, so the idea was not QUITE as crazy as it sounds. Not QUITE that as crazy as it sounds, but still crazy enough, as events made clear.
Patton wanted to rearm and resupply the Germans and push to Moscow. Many people knew communism was evil, the world had just tired of war and wanted it over.
On top of that, he got probably one of the harshest punishments compared to the rest of the German leadership that was imprisoned. Like damn dude, he surrendered BEFORE all of the more horrific warcrimes happened, and he still got life in prison lmao
Hess was kept in a mental asylum in my home town of Abergavenny for most of his confinement. It was a massive open secret, and the locals would cycle up to watch him just walk about the grounds. He ignored them. Doctors would be crowded around in pubs and locals would ask him what he was like. It was the worst kept secret of the war but pretty inconsequential
So what did the doctors tell the locals in the pub about Hess do you know? I would have to think that those doctors were under extremely strict orders as to what they could say. When you say "massive open secret" do you mean that officially Hess was said to be in a prison somewhere else in England?
Most of the times he crashes on Britain on a BF 110, but there's also a event where he flies to Scotland with the Hindenburg. You can also save him if you finish the UK before the Fall of France event
Or maybe he knew all along Germany was doomed and he would be hanged unless he did something so unbelievably stupid that everyone would assume he was crazy and just lock him up
I'm a Son of a former active border guard where we used to live at Lazarusstrasse, Willhelmstadt in Spandau with the other British squaddies. A part of Spandau castle still exists by what is now a Police station (used to be the British HQ in Spandau next to the castle Hess was held). My dad tells me there was a rumour the Hess in Spandau was actually a double working for the Soviets as the Russians per the post-war agreements for the occupation of Germany would come in for updates on Hess, but to also keep an eye on British troop deployment in West Berlin just like the changing of the guard at the Russian War Memorial on the 17th June Street which actually fell into the UK sector of occupation of Berlin. I've tried reaching out to museums in current day Berlin with my story(ies) to no luck, please reply anyone who is interested.
That is definitively very interesting but I suppose you would need a little more meat on the bone, if your father is still alive help him write a testimony, anything but if you have only "my dad told me so" you probably won't go very far with this unless the Russians find something in their archives, maybe you should talk to them, I think they don't eat capitalists anymore. Good luck.
@@rosesprog1722 Thanks for the reply, yes my Dad is still alive and of working age. Also I know because me and my family were there in West Berlin, the area I described was the home quarters of British armed forces families. We have pieces of the wall, special publications made by west Berlin newspapers for the Eastern Berliners flooding in such as maps and the Zoo was open for free for a time to celebrate. One of my earliest memories too was hearing gunfire and I've tried finding out if whoever was attempting to cross died or not (likely did). My mother says her fondest memory was seeing all the bins in West Berlin spilling over with Banana and Orange peels, something the people of East Berlin were denied for so long because of Embargoes. Also your testimony idea is good I will try that when my Dad gets home. Heck I may even make a RUclips video about it, I'm being inspired by Simple History and Historic Travels more by the day and think I can highlight some interesting history not widely known.
@@nickmetroid I'm sure you'd get a lot of views, controversial history always triggers emotions, some for and some against, nothing in the middle. Sadly the internet allows for the most hateful comments to run free but you'll get used to it, we all do. If you need any help for your research I have a good library and I can give you some great research sites. Cheers.
Germany actually vehemently fought for peace. Dunkirk was an attempt at peace. Over 24 peace treaties were offered throughout the war period. Including treaties that meant Hitler pulled out of Poland. But the bankers Zionist lobbies and war profiteers would have none of it.
My grandfather was one of the guards who watched over him in Spandau Prison and it creeped me out how you made him walking around that garden because my grandfather told me that is exactly what he did, just walked around with no sense of direction.
@@tai-yomaruno3680 Like that Soviet Union was trying to spread communism to the west and never intended to remain peaceful with the allies after the war.
When I was in my teens a friend of mine lived in the street that runs up to where Hess's aircraft crashed, (Waterfoot, near Eaglesham) - we knew that Hess had crashed there, but didn't really understand the relevance - it's weird to think that happened in such an unremarkable, yet picturesque village.
11:45 Interesting... I always heard a different story: It was demolished, so that it doesn't become a place of pilgrimage for Neonazis. And I think there were already enough supermarkets in West Berlin to satisfy the need of British service men, because when there is something people require, there are always people who try to make money with that
Fun fact: Bavaria to Scotland is a 1,118 mile distance. The range of the Bf 110 is 1,305 miles. Given that distance, fuel conservation was crucial. Also, the distance doesn't consider his route over the North Sea (wich would've increased the distance by a good amount).
And so the british kept him in prison until he commited suicide at a rather old age. It's unusual and sad how some decisions you make can decide your fate.
The Soviet Union vetoed his release; all four powers needed to sign off on it. The Soviet judge at Nuremberg actually dissented in the verdict and wanted the death penalty for him.
He got a raw deal; possibly one of the most raw deals of any POW in WW2 on the losing side. If he was smarter he could have offered more to broker a deal with the Allies. Like that Japanese researcher at Unit 731, Shiro Ishii. That guy was responsible for some of the most grotesque crimes against humanity ever and the U.S. gave him immunity for war crimes and even gave him a job as a researcher lmao.
@@persona-non-grata It's ironic, really. I only see the Germans offering peace treaty after peace treaty to the allies early in the war to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. If it wasn't for the blockade starving mainland Europe out of exports - a lot of people wouldn't have needed to die in camps. Germany had food shortages in 1940, so of course the natural solution was to get rid of the "unwanted" But... to be fair - Britain did try to do everything to avoid the war in the first place, the Germans just pushed their luck
I don't know why they kept him in prison the man was almost harmless plus he wasn't involved in the Holocaust unlike Himmler maybe to spite Hitler since he was close friends with him
@@augustuzmoon3814 To get released, all of the major powers guarding the prison had to agree to a release. The Soviets never gave their permission, largely because it allowed them access to west berlin, where the prison was located. So Hess was kept to serve soviet political purposes.
@@matthewbadley5063 I think he either was assassinated in order to take away the Soviet access or he knew about it and decided to end his life since he knew he wasn't going to be free anytime soon that or both and just let them kill him Edit:Nvm I believe he was killed because of the wiki linked above he was definitely killed but since he was old they probably just put poison in his drink and hanged him afterwards
I didn't know about the attempt of kidnapping/kill Hess. The most odd thing for me is the way he died and the time he served in prison.WW2 still got too many mysteries for me in my opinion. Will be cool if the channel made a video of the Farm Hall, and talk about the captured scientists (the ten captured), included: Werner Heisenberg, Max von Laue, Otto Hahn, Walther Gerlach, Paul Harteck..., I don't know all names.
That’s correct. We didn’t really need a supermarket as we already had one on Theodore Heuss Platz. I was involved in the demolition plans. The metal scrap was mixed in with a scrap metal site in the north of Spandau and the bricks were buried in the south of the British sector. All of the bricks in the prison were marked with a Prussian eagle in the frog of the brick, and there was a concern that there would be a souvenir craze. I’d previously guarded Hess in 1986 and the father of one of the soldiers who was with me had guarded him in the Tower of London.
I dont care. It was an old and good looking building and the allies already took so much historic architecture which was replaced by ugly modern buildings.
@@bob_the_bomb4508 Something like that already exists in Berlin. Its the Memorial Church. The prison could have been used as a museeum or a depot like other fortification buildings in Spandau.
i notice that the quality of the videos you make are getting better the thing it its just taking longer for how much hard work you put in the videos you make keep it up :D
Do the Sammy Davis, Medal of Honor Story: the artillery man who held off a reinforced battalion of NVA troops to protect his friends with a howitzer and an M60
9:08 - My Führer . . . . Hess . . . . - Hess went AWOL. He took a plane, and flew into Britain to . . . . to try to negotiate peace. - . . . . . . . . . Everyone but the following leave this room: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.
He actually cried in reports idk why they lied about this.. Hess was his good friend they even fought in the same unit in ww1 and he saved Hitlers life from assassination in the 20s. In reality Churchill was everything they paint Hitler as and Hitler was a truly a built different individual tbh
I remember😂 just buying that guy yess here comes that sweet political power "unpauze" "the flight of ruldolf hess" lol this guy just gave himself up...... wait who did I just hire
He basically did not want peace, as he would urge the Scots to revolt and so the Churchill government would fall. In other words he went to provoke war.
His wanting to make peace involved overthrowing the sitting English government. That wasn't an interest in peace, that was a desire to remove opposition against Germany's continental conquests, opposition they lacked the ability to decisively neutralize otherwise. Regardless of whether he advocated for a war with the English, as a high ranking official of the German government he almost certainly played a part in the acts of persecution that led up to the Holocaust, and in Germany's pursuit of Hegemony over Europe. There's nothing innocent about that, and regardless, life imprisonment is an understandable sentence for literally trying to overthrow a government in war time. That in itself was essentially an act of espionage
Yepz,off He basically did not want peace, as he would urge the Scots to revolt and so the Churchill government would fall. In other words he went to provoke war.
During the Cold War, Spandau was guarded by the US, UK, French and Soviet troops on regular rotation. Hess was seen by the Soviets as a good excuse to have access to West Berlin on a regular basis.
What is also interesting is that Hess for the rest of his life during his imprisonment avoided any contact with his family though before his fly he was known as family man (he saw his family only once)
Hess is my great great great grandfather and Wolf Hess which is his son I believe is his son so my great great grandfather, then my great grandma who devoted herself to family genealogy kept records of out family and history of our family. Then came my grandpa, father and now me.
That's crazy! Never knew about him. I'm surprised he made it as far as he did without getting shot down. Does anyone know what happened to his family afterwards?
It is a very strange story, I've long suspected he was manipulated into this mission by one of his rivals. He was not a very smart compared to rivals like the machiavellian Bormann who replaced him as Hitler's favourite.
No, the Germans were desperate for peace all throughout the war. The war mongers, Zionist lobbies, war profiteers, and banks wouldn't have it. Over 24 peace treaties were offered. Each and every one denied. And now they simply throw you in jail for asking questions. Nobody can question the almighty Zionist, no matter who they ravage destroy torture pervert etc.
My great-grandfather, Jock McGregor, was part of the home guard that showed up to arrest Hess in that field. He was wounded in WWI when his kilt got stuck on C-wire, then a German bayonet relieved him of one of his shins while he was caught up. When WWII started he got drunk one night and rejoined, but as he was old and previously wounded they put him in the home guard. He insisted on going to the rooftop of their building in the Gorbles during air raids because "I'm going down on top of this building, not the other way around!" He also got in trouble with my great-grandmother one night when he was late getting home from work at a factory because "the fookin' Stukas wouldn't let us leave!"
He wasn't "wrongly informed" regarding the Duke of Hamilton. He met the Duke at a party years prior and he thought, no one "informed" him, that British Royalty had complete say over policy in Britain. Simple History acts as if the two, Hess and the Duke, didn't know each other. Hess simply did not know how British government operated. Edit: It's also not true about his mental condition. He faked his condition and later revealed so at the Nuremburg trials. Hess said he did this to try and gain sympathy so he could be released or receive a lighter sentence. US Army Chief psychiatrist at Nuremburg, Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley, acknowledged this in his writings. Usually Simple History does a good job, but y'all had two pretty big discrepancies in this one.
Hess's son: He was murdered! His life cut short at 93! Anyone with an ounce of sense and logic: Yes because 93 is barely more than a spring chicken and the British couldn't have done this at any point since his capture.
The prison was located in West-Berlin and he was guarded by allied forces including Soviets., After Hess's death the prison was empty and that denied the Soviets access to the area, because West-Berlin was under British, French and American control so there was definitely a motive for the murder.
The saddest part for him is that the Duke was probably plotting against the british. But, of course, he was not willing to admit that in a hospital full of them!
Hess served in WW1 and fought in Verdun and in Ypres. Any man who lived through both those battles would be obsessed with peace as well.
Well except Hitler no one likes Hitler...
(I stand corrected, many people in the comments like Hitler. Maybe they are the hitler youth who subscribed to his channel.)
@@kingkermit7323 neither himself at the end.
@@ragalthor This comment is beautiful. You have my like good sir. XD
@@kingkermit7323 i do
Your pfp is familiar
Hess: *Was one of Hitler's closest friends , helped him write Mein Kampf during his time in prison and help him during his adventure to rise to power*
Also Hess: Crash lands in Britian
Hitler: _İ have never met this man in my life_
" damnatio memoriae ". Stalin was a master in this.
"UHH UHH NO! This is not my moM!" - Hitler
U got me laughing like crazy 😂
Of coirse, Hitler knew.
When he heard Hess defected, he adopted the only mentality that made sense for such a turncoat move:
"Hess is DEAD to me"
are you turkish?
I imagine the Duke of Hamilton was more than a little curious on why some German crashed his plane, surrendered, and then asked for him in the middle of Scotland.
A interesting day was for him.
Pretty sure I'd think it was an assassination plot if I was in his place honestly
@@AnonD38 Not saying its rational just saying that would be my level of paranoia in that situation
He was probably hoping for beer, german sausages, rum, whiskey, and a book of Mein Kampf
@@AnonD38
Considering how dumb the Nazis were, this sounds like the average plan thought up by them.
A piece of the fuselage of the Bf-110 that Hess flew in is on display in the Imperial War Museum.
It is
i thought the crash animation look from simple history looked awfully familiar. thanks for confirming my suspicion
Ah yes, the museum of British war plundering
@Andrew Montgomery Uo,Whats up strider Squadron
Huh.
*His voice never gets old.*
Whos
@@averagetexan9930 narrator
For real it do b a nice voice though
@@Interdictiondeltawing he has a youtube just search up Chris Kane if you want more juicy crispy videos of his voice
@@averagetexan9930 yeah he is so good and a nice dude
Rudolf Hess: *attempt for a peace negotiation*
British government: *PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION*
After Hitler tore up the Munich Agreement, Britain never considered a negotiated peace with Germany possible.
@@matthewbadley5063 they never intended for peace, they went 100% warhawk on Germany
British : Starve and torture decent people to death in concentration camps in Africa
Also British : The Germans interring subversives is inhumane!
British : We must preserve Polish independence!
Also British : Hands all of eastern Europe over to the USSR, organizes sanctions against the remaining White Africans to starve them into submission to genocidal pyromaniac communist terrorists which leads to mass starvation and civil wars continuing to this very day ...
British : American tobacco corrupts the world!
Also British : * dumps opium into China *
@@ThermicLight what's NS? Sorry idk what that means. lol
@@metalheadcomicbookfan797 National Socialist (German Worker Party).
There's probably an alternate timeline out there where he achieved his goal and WW2 looked a LOT different.
HOI4 moment?
@@smokeyplane3285 lol
@Corvo attano What?
his goal? - UK makes peace with Ggermany? so Europe remains under Nazis control until the present day......
me who watched steins gate: "wanna see me do that?"
Fun fact. The supermarket was nicknamed 'Hessco' by British troops after the UK supermarket chain 'Tesco'.
I was about to say that as well, had to scroll down to find it has already been written down.
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 me too.
Every little helps or as Hess would say “Jede Kleinigkeit hilft”
Thanks for the fun fact. It's just a small one...
...But every little helps.
No way 🤣
people like this make history go down in history, obviously.
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@@gshii8593 Ok i won't click
Ok
@CPcaster haha very funny
@@papajpapjowy Same.
Hess: **tries to negotiate peace with the British**
Germany: *I never met this man in my life.*
British: Charge you with crime against peace
@@yepzoff5670 get nae naed
Germany never wanted war with Britain, hitler admired them. Churchill was a maniac
@@Sturmbannführer88 The War started before Churchill even became Prime Minister
@@Sturmbannführer88 could you elaborate on churchill please?
I was taught he was an admirable man, and that he saved britain in ww2.
but now i'm learning king george vi and the british public hated him; which to me explains why he was casted aside so easily, but at the same time, it almost seems like clement atlee pulled a joe biden and won.
Do “The Battle of Alcatraz” (1946)
One about the "Battle of Los Angeles" would also be incredibly interesting
@@Stribog1337 check out Lemmino documentary on this event, highly recommend.
@@Stribog1337 agree
@@Stribog1337 what happened at the battle of Los Angeles?
@@rywinters5713 aliens
Tries to fly low hoping he wouldn't be spotted on radar.
Gets spotted by radar.
"Now what?"
The Royal Observer Corps were a vitial part of Britain's air defence too, providing visual reports in areas where radar didn't cover. They carried on through the Cold War, where their WW3 jobs would have been reporting on nuclear explosions from one of 1,563 mini-bunkers. They were basically stood down in 1991 and finally ceased operations in 1995.
@@silenthunteruk very interesting
@@silenthunteruk very interesting
to be fair, the reason they couldn't find him was because he was flying low
@@hans3000 I think he meant that if WW3 started, spotting nuclear explosions would be their job
Don't worry Hess, I can't understand Scottish accents either and i'm British.
As a Canadian I can understand most English accents ex: American, Scottish, Australia, British basically all of them
@@hekmatyar4476 you don’t know what you’re talking aboot. As an American, I now the truth about Canada. Take your maple syrup and crap beer to france.
@@kungflu7824 maybe we could keep the syrup? kinda good
I'm English and I was straining to hear the English place names under the American pronunciation.
You brits just wanna conquer any one who sounds different lol
"I'm so sorry I flew to Scotland without the Führer's consent in an attempt to negotiate a peace deal between Great Britain and Germany, but I can't help it since I'm such a Gemini~"
the funniest part he's not even a Gemini he was born on April 26th that makes him a Taurus.
@Deep Claymore Why? I'd like to know because I don't understand as I have a lot of difficulty understanding the english language
Keep at it. It’s a hard language to learn. Hitler was a very brutal leader (as exemplified by the Holocaust and other atrocities) and would have likely had Hess killed due to his betrayal. Hitler was not a man who liked to be undermined.
@@Weaksauce1234 Alright, thank you!
@@daveJDB It's not that complicated. Hitler didn't want to negotiate with the Allies and saw them as inferior nations.
He was not so much trying to negotiate peace, as trying to recruit Britain into a united front in a war with the Soviet Union. Certainly Britain -- and America -- were just a few years later very open to bringing (West) Germany into a united front in a (cold) war with the Soviet Union, so the idea was not QUITE as crazy as it sounds. Not QUITE that as crazy as it sounds, but still crazy enough, as events made clear.
Patton wanted to rearm and resupply the Germans and push to Moscow. Many people knew communism was evil, the world had just tired of war and wanted it over.
@@cusefan5510 Patton knew that communism was the greater threat
@I hate black people your name is literally I hate black people.
@I hate black people god it must be really hard being that stupid all the time.
Well that is what the Nazis was telling their soldiers they were told that they are figthing for europe against communism.
Goes to Britain to negotiate peace then gets convicted for crimes against peace... The irony =D
thats what i was thinking
Because the Nuremberg trials weren’t exactly legal.
It was a victor’s “justice” that wasn’t exactly just
On top of that, he got probably one of the harshest punishments compared to the rest of the German leadership that was imprisoned. Like damn dude, he surrendered BEFORE all of the more horrific warcrimes happened, and he still got life in prison lmao
@@thatAC130 further evidence that Nuremburg was about revenge, and not justice.
@@GasPipeJimmy Oh they were perfectly legal. Just that it was a Kangaroo Court backed by military weaponry.
So that's were Hess comes from.
Those sets were real fun!
On unsolved mysteries they did a episode about Rudolph Hess.
@MrBeаst Ⓥ ruclips.net/video/JwncAQurlqk/видео.html
@MrBeаst Ⓥ
Is this the video or scam?
@@augustuzmoon3814 scam
They also did in the WW2 history channel with Indy Neidell
which part did they claim was unsolved
Hess was kept in a mental asylum in my home town of Abergavenny for most of his confinement. It was a massive open secret, and the locals would cycle up to watch him just walk about the grounds. He ignored them.
Doctors would be crowded around in pubs and locals would ask him what he was like. It was the worst kept secret of the war but pretty inconsequential
So what did the doctors tell the locals in the pub about Hess do you know? I would have to think that those doctors were under extremely strict orders as to what they could say. When you say "massive open secret" do you mean that officially Hess was said to be in a prison somewhere else in England?
I swear I always saw this guy got himself killed in every playthrough.
Saw it so often I thought that was what historically happened.
Most of the times he crashes on Britain on a BF 110, but there's also a event where he flies to Scotland with the Hindenburg. You can also save him if you finish the UK before the Fall of France event
what is this game?
@@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757 Hearts of Iron 4 or how I like to call it "Buy 6 DLC's for full experience"
@@askamikaze3936 7 now with “No step back”, even though I think this one is the best
Man really handed himself over without wanting to
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Or maybe he knew all along Germany was doomed and he would be hanged unless he did something so unbelievably stupid that everyone would assume he was crazy and just lock him up
I'm a Son of a former active border guard where we used to live at Lazarusstrasse, Willhelmstadt in Spandau with the other British squaddies. A part of Spandau castle still exists by what is now a Police station (used to be the British HQ in Spandau next to the castle Hess was held).
My dad tells me there was a rumour the Hess in Spandau was actually a double working for the Soviets as the Russians per the post-war agreements for the occupation of Germany would come in for updates on Hess, but to also keep an eye on British troop deployment in West Berlin just like the changing of the guard at the Russian War Memorial on the 17th June Street which actually fell into the UK sector of occupation of Berlin.
I've tried reaching out to museums in current day Berlin with my story(ies) to no luck, please reply anyone who is interested.
Oh wow highlighted comment a first for me :) thanks!
That is definitively very interesting but I suppose you would need a little more meat on the bone, if your father is still alive help him write a testimony, anything but if you have only "my dad told me so" you probably won't go very far with this unless the Russians find something in their archives, maybe you should talk to them, I think they don't eat capitalists anymore. Good luck.
@@rosesprog1722 Thanks for the reply, yes my Dad is still alive and of working age. Also I know because me and my family were there in West Berlin, the area I described was the home quarters of British armed forces families.
We have pieces of the wall, special publications made by west Berlin newspapers for the Eastern Berliners flooding in such as maps and the Zoo was open for free for a time to celebrate.
One of my earliest memories too was hearing gunfire and I've tried finding out if whoever was attempting to cross died or not (likely did). My mother says her fondest memory was seeing all the bins in West Berlin spilling over with Banana and Orange peels, something the people of East Berlin were denied for so long because of Embargoes.
Also your testimony idea is good I will try that when my Dad gets home. Heck I may even make a RUclips video about it, I'm being inspired by Simple History and Historic Travels more by the day and think I can highlight some interesting history not widely known.
@@nickmetroid I'm sure you'd get a lot of views, controversial history always triggers emotions, some for and some against, nothing in the middle. Sadly the internet allows for the most hateful comments to run free but you'll get used to it, we all do. If you need any help for your research I have a good library and I can give you some great research sites. Cheers.
@@nickmetroid you should make that video. I’d be interested
Guy: wants to make peace
The British and the germans: "he is crazy"
Germany actually vehemently fought for peace. Dunkirk was an attempt at peace. Over 24 peace treaties were offered throughout the war period. Including treaties that meant Hitler pulled out of Poland. But the bankers Zionist lobbies and war profiteers would have none of it.
My grandfather was one of the guards who watched over him in Spandau Prison and it creeped me out how you made him walking around that garden because my grandfather told me that is exactly what he did, just walked around with no sense of direction.
Hess knew things. The Cold War has a root in what Hess knew.
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Like what dude?
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@@tai-yomaruno3680 Like that Soviet Union was trying to spread communism to the west and never intended to remain peaceful with the allies after the war.
@@SamienBB thanks!
When I was in my teens a friend of mine lived in the street that runs up to where Hess's aircraft crashed, (Waterfoot, near Eaglesham) - we knew that Hess had crashed there, but didn't really understand the relevance - it's weird to think that happened in such an unremarkable, yet picturesque village.
11:45 Interesting... I always heard a different story: It was demolished, so that it doesn't become a place of pilgrimage for Neonazis. And I think there were already enough supermarkets in West Berlin to satisfy the need of British service men, because when there is something people require, there are always people who try to make money with that
Pretty gross that they throw you in jail for thinking.
@@theodorechill And where did you get that idea from? Not reading almost everything in my comment and rearranging the rest?
Now do Reinhart Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague
Fun fact: Bavaria to Scotland is a 1,118 mile distance. The range of the Bf 110 is 1,305 miles.
Given that distance, fuel conservation was crucial. Also, the distance doesn't consider his route over the North Sea (wich would've increased the distance by a good amount).
Don't forget his auxilliary fuel tanks
Because he probably stopped in Denmark or Sweden first.
Could you make a video of the Chinese boxer rebellion 1900-1901
"The year was 1900 tis worth remembering the men who lived through 55 days at peking"
@@ROOFKOR3AN got that reference
@@ROOFKOR3AN
T’was called the Boxers insurrection a bloody oriental war,
against all nations of the diplomatic core.”
"The flags of France and Britain how they fluttered in the breeze"
The Italian and the Russian and the flag of the Japanese
These are the cool historical stories I didn't learn in school 15 years ago because they wanted me filling out work sheets instead of learning.
A series of videos of the Boer wars would be great.
And so the british kept him in prison until he commited suicide at a rather old age. It's unusual and sad how some decisions you make can decide your fate.
The Soviet Union vetoed his release; all four powers needed to sign off on it. The Soviet judge at Nuremberg actually dissented in the verdict and wanted the death penalty for him.
@@silenthunteruk the soviet union vetoed his release because he was their only way to legally enter west berlin.
He didnt commit suicide, they killed him. Hess's lawyer even said he didn't kill himself and knew him well enough to know he wouldn't.
@@theodorechill
No no no goym
He killed himself, stop being such an anti Semite
The suicide note they found on him was written 20 years earlier. If I were to go, I would write a new one myself.
Ah yes, a man who wanted peace
What a madman, an absolute lunatic
A fucking legend imagine wanting peace
@@Ttzion2 wanting peace only after playing a major role in plunging the world headlong into war
He got a raw deal; possibly one of the most raw deals of any POW in WW2 on the losing side. If he was smarter he could have offered more to broker a deal with the Allies. Like that Japanese researcher at Unit 731, Shiro Ishii. That guy was responsible for some of the most grotesque crimes against humanity ever and the U.S. gave him immunity for war crimes and even gave him a job as a researcher lmao.
@@leorickt.9604 He had no part in "Plunging the world into war".
@@persona-non-grata It's ironic, really. I only see the Germans offering peace treaty after peace treaty to the allies early in the war to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
If it wasn't for the blockade starving mainland Europe out of exports - a lot of people wouldn't have needed to die in camps. Germany had food shortages in 1940, so of course the natural solution was to get rid of the "unwanted"
But... to be fair - Britain did try to do everything to avoid the war in the first place, the Germans just pushed their luck
"Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.” - Winston Churchill
He ain’t said that.
@@johnsingleton393 _How do you know?_
@@jojomaster7675 How do you know he did?
@@endloesung_der_braunen_frage How do you know he didn't?
Hess and Goering would've preferred fighting alongside the Allies against the USSR...
Himmler as well but only when he realized they were gonna lose the war.
Wait what? Allies against the USSR? Also, everyone in Germany wanted to fight against USSR. That was the whole point.
damn, i miss his +15% political power gain already
Im glad to see the animation is improving over the time
Why am I getting Epstein vibes, hearing about this man's death?
I don't know why they kept him in prison the man was almost harmless plus he wasn't involved in the Holocaust unlike Himmler maybe to spite Hitler since he was close friends with him
@@augustuzmoon3814 To get released, all of the major powers guarding the prison had to agree to a release. The Soviets never gave their permission, largely because it allowed them access to west berlin, where the prison was located. So Hess was kept to serve soviet political purposes.
He basically was.
@@matthewbadley5063
I think he either was assassinated in order to take away the Soviet access or he knew about it and decided to end his life since he knew he wasn't going to be free anytime soon that or both and just let them kill him
Edit:Nvm I believe he was killed because of the wiki linked above he was definitely killed but since he was old they probably just put poison in his drink and hanged him afterwards
The Brits murdered him
One of the few Nazis that wanted peace so early.
Churchill really was a war criminal
Hess try to make a peace deal with Duke of Hamilton, but just caught by British for nothing.
I didn't know about the attempt of kidnapping/kill Hess. The most odd thing for me is the way he died and the time he served in prison.WW2 still got too many mysteries for me in my opinion. Will be cool if the channel made a video of the Farm Hall, and talk about the captured scientists (the ten captured), included: Werner Heisenberg, Max von Laue, Otto Hahn, Walther Gerlach, Paul Harteck..., I don't know all names.
The prison was demolished, because the city don't wanted the prison to become a posthumous memorial for hess.
That’s correct. We didn’t really need a supermarket as we already had one on Theodore Heuss Platz.
I was involved in the demolition plans. The metal scrap was mixed in with a scrap metal site in the north of Spandau and the bricks were buried in the south of the British sector. All of the bricks in the prison were marked with a Prussian eagle in the frog of the brick, and there was a concern that there would be a souvenir craze.
I’d previously guarded Hess in 1986 and the father of one of the soldiers who was with me had guarded him in the Tower of London.
@@bob_the_bomb4508 Thx for your insight.
I dont care. It was an old and good looking building and the allies already took so much historic architecture which was replaced by ugly modern buildings.
@@wolfsoldner9029 a bit like Coventry Cathedral then?
@@bob_the_bomb4508 Something like that already exists in Berlin. Its the Memorial Church. The prison could have been used as a museeum or a depot like other fortification buildings in Spandau.
You didn't even talk about how his current grave is unknown to keep away neo Nazis
Which is stupid because the ACTUAL Nazis hated him
@@GasPipeJimmy they probably dont want his grave to be vandalized
@@Unknown_Genius lol either way same thing happens with the "comrade" people
@@GasPipeJimmy No. They wanted peace with Britain too.
Am I the only one who knew about the Hess Incident before hoi4?
Nope
Didn't play hoi4
Nah
No. I read.
Nah
Polish Soldiers: Finds out a Rudolf Hess German guy is in the prison
Rudolf Hess' Hud: Current Mission: Survive
Also Polish Soldier: "Get him!"
@@commisarmichael8097 polish soldier: mission failed. game over
@@knmaherijayatp8181 yep. But hey, there was so many SS soldiers! Poles could chose which one murder
British Garrison: "Hold until timer runs out"
lol Hess could speak fluent English but was unable to understand the Scotsman due to his heavy Scottish accent
As we all would.
I love how these animations keep improving, love the topics you do
i notice that the quality of the videos you make are getting better
the thing it its just taking longer for how much hard work you put in the videos you make keep it up :D
Do the Sammy Davis, Medal of Honor Story: the artillery man who held off a reinforced battalion of NVA troops to protect his friends with a howitzer and an M60
*brrrt intensifies*
The song "the Man's too strong" by Dire straits is actually based on Rudolf Hess
Really that's interesting
Imagine finding out your godfather was Adolf Hitler
Pretty ‘Metal’ if you ask me.
9:08
- My Führer . . . . Hess . . . .
- Hess went AWOL. He took a plane, and flew into Britain to . . . . to try to negotiate peace.
- . . . . . . . . . Everyone but the following leave this room: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.
He actually cried in reports idk why they lied about this.. Hess was his good friend they even fought in the same unit in ww1 and he saved Hitlers life from assassination in the 20s.
In reality Churchill was everything they paint Hitler as and Hitler was a truly a built different individual tbh
Despite the fact that it took months of preparation, this has to be one of the least thought-through plans ever.
HOI4 players: There goes my 15% pp gain
I remember😂 just buying that guy yess here comes that sweet political power "unpauze" "the flight of ruldolf hess" lol this guy just gave himself up...... wait who did I just hire
I swear I got an event that he was dead and like ok Benito go cheer up Hitler( I was playing as Italy)
Just pick the other guy or kill Britain before 1937 or before the fall of France
This is a great one!!! Love it
One of my great grandparents was at a bus stop when she saw Rudolf Hess pass by in his BF-110
How can you confined against peace when you were trying to promote peace.
British moment.
Because he tried to overthrow the British government.
Britain never respected Germany as a legitimate state to begin with. They only ever took the Soviets seriously
He basically did not want peace, as he would urge the Scots to revolt and so the Churchill government would fall. In other words he went to provoke war.
@@MrNektarios1973 As if the Scots need provocation, lmao.
“The Flight of Rudolf Hess?”
Wait! I’ve seen that before! On Hearts of Iron IV
Could you do a history of “war dogs” starting from the Roman Empire with the use of their Molossian all the way to modern dogs with the US Army
Lucky for him the Polish didn’t get him, he would’ve suffered a long and painful end
Some would argue, he deserved that end.
I disagree. We arent monsters
@@wiedzmin8204 well considering they would hurt their allies to get revenge (as stated in the video), and it was reasonable at the time.
Boy learn some history
@@wiedzmin8204 chłopie, oni by go skatowali za to co Niemcy robili u nas XD
Damn, there is a great improvements on the drawing of faces. The ressemblance with the real persons is quite good!
I can imagine Hess and the Duke of Hamilton having a translator. Translating English to more English!
Greetings fom Germany 🇩🇪
Heil hilotor lol
I am in South Africa but I am Dutch
@@kingjasonbothma8119 cool!
@@kingjasonbothma8119 nah man
Lieben jou
He wanted to make peace
He was charged against of a conspiracy of war
He was charged with a crime he doesn't commit
His wanting to make peace involved overthrowing the sitting English government. That wasn't an interest in peace, that was a desire to remove opposition against Germany's continental conquests, opposition they lacked the ability to decisively neutralize otherwise. Regardless of whether he advocated for a war with the English, as a high ranking official of the German government he almost certainly played a part in the acts of persecution that led up to the Holocaust, and in Germany's pursuit of Hegemony over Europe. There's nothing innocent about that, and regardless, life imprisonment is an understandable sentence for literally trying to overthrow a government in war time. That in itself was essentially an act of espionage
Yepz,off He basically did not want peace, as he would urge the Scots to revolt and so the Churchill government would fall. In other words he went to provoke war.
People I think I seen this one before I think USA overthrowing countries that had communism did America do war crime in North Korea, Cuba and Veteran
Life in prison seems a bit over kill for merely trying to coordinate a peace deal
Originally he was wanted dead by the Russians
I could see a movie on this. Or unless there was one made already, I’d still watch it.
Some of the British files on the whole incident remain classified, I believe.
During the Cold War, Spandau was guarded by the US, UK, French and Soviet troops on regular rotation. Hess was seen by the Soviets as a good excuse to have access to West Berlin on a regular basis.
His story is incredibly interesting, it's unfortunate what happened to him while in prison
Simple History I have a question can you please do a video on what happened to the British fleet after ww2
Right? Like way to let the rebel kid handle literally everything for you
Atomic bombs needed some testing.
@@kms_scharnhorst ok thank you I appreciate it
All ready a great video
pause on 5:06. There is another shoulder just above Hess's right shoulder
Man this is a dude who wanted to influence the war yet the war ate him.
The odds… I was just reading about Hess and his trip yesterday wondering if this channel had made a video about it.
I like that Hitlers face got upgraded
What is also interesting is that Hess for the rest of his life during his imprisonment avoided any contact with his family though before his fly he was known as family man (he saw his family only once)
He wasn't allowed to see his family.
Hess is my great great great grandfather and Wolf Hess which is his son I believe is his son so my great great grandfather, then my great grandma who devoted herself to family genealogy kept records of out family and history of our family. Then came my grandpa, father and now me.
TIL the difference between "bogey" and "bandit". Thankyou boys!
That's crazy! Never knew about him. I'm surprised he made it as far as he did without getting shot down. Does anyone know what happened to his family afterwards?
Oh Rudolph Hess your legacy lives on.
Everybody Gangsta until Round 1
Imagine being tried for crimes against peace when you try a mad mission to make peace.
The simple logic is he was tried for crimes against the criminals.
I love ur videos and I have been watching you for years
it's amazing that I have direct lineage to Hamilton clan and live about 30mins from Aldershot and didn't have a clue about this until now...
Why would the British murder a 90+ year old man after decades of imprisonment?
The English are a strange people.
duh they needed to build a supermarket.
Why would a 93 year old with arthritis who couldn’t even bend over and tie his shoes hang himself?
@@butterflyknifeislife8658 why wouldn't he? Onus is on you to proof otherwise
Perhaps they are tired to wait the old Hess died!
Btw the farmer actually gave him a cup of tea while waiting for the home guard
It is a very strange story, I've long suspected he was manipulated into this mission by one of his rivals. He was not a very smart compared to rivals like the machiavellian Bormann who replaced him as Hitler's favourite.
No, the Germans were desperate for peace all throughout the war. The war mongers, Zionist lobbies, war profiteers, and banks wouldn't have it. Over 24 peace treaties were offered. Each and every one denied. And now they simply throw you in jail for asking questions. Nobody can question the almighty Zionist, no matter who they ravage destroy torture pervert etc.
I love how you use real symbols instead of fake symbols to avoid getting demonetized
Thank you Simple History for this Video. Loved It Mate
Hess: I come for peace.
British: What a mad lad.
German: The Mad lad goes where?!
My great-grandfather, Jock McGregor, was part of the home guard that showed up to arrest Hess in that field. He was wounded in WWI when his kilt got stuck on C-wire, then a German bayonet relieved him of one of his shins while he was caught up. When WWII started he got drunk one night and rejoined, but as he was old and previously wounded they put him in the home guard.
He insisted on going to the rooftop of their building in the Gorbles during air raids because "I'm going down on top of this building, not the other way around!"
He also got in trouble with my great-grandmother one night when he was late getting home from work at a factory because "the fookin' Stukas wouldn't let us leave!"
I love this channel
Hess: *Explains to the duke who he is in fluent English*
The duke in his Scottish accent: Öi BRUV YOU WOT M8!?
The new supermarket was dubbed
‘Hesco’s’.
This is one of the best you tube channels in the world. Carry on!
I really love these "alternative history" vids. Makes you wonder how things might have turned out in a different universe.
But this aint alternative history, it happened
God the animation is getting smoother with each one
He wasn't "wrongly informed" regarding the Duke of Hamilton. He met the Duke at a party years prior and he thought, no one "informed" him, that British Royalty had complete say over policy in Britain. Simple History acts as if the two, Hess and the Duke, didn't know each other. Hess simply did not know how British government operated.
Edit: It's also not true about his mental condition. He faked his condition and later revealed so at the Nuremburg trials. Hess said he did this to try and gain sympathy so he could be released or receive a lighter sentence. US Army Chief psychiatrist at Nuremburg, Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley, acknowledged this in his writings.
Usually Simple History does a good job, but y'all had two pretty big discrepancies in this one.
I always love the frosty voice
Hess's son: He was murdered! His life cut short at 93!
Anyone with an ounce of sense and logic: Yes because 93 is barely more than a spring chicken and the British couldn't have done this at any point since his capture.
That logic didn't work for the Covid.
The prison was located in West-Berlin and he was guarded by allied forces including Soviets., After Hess's death the prison was empty and that denied the Soviets access to the area, because West-Berlin was under British, French and American control so there was definitely a motive for the murder.
The saddest part for him is that the Duke was probably plotting against the british. But, of course, he was not willing to admit that in a hospital full of them!