What a very interesting video! I served in West Berlin, seen Hess once, from a thousand feet above the prison as I flew over in a helicopter. Between Hess and Albert Spears created a garden in Spandau Prison (mostly of Spears planting and tending) but Hess took over looking after the garden when he became the last prisoner. The prison was torn down when Hess died in 1987 but most of the garden remained, and a new supermarket was built for the British Forces. In the carpark of the new supermarket towards the back, the garden remained acting as a ending to the perimeter fencing, trees and everything! Even today, if you look at the former site of the prison on the likes of Google Earth, you can see at the back of the site, trees. These were planted by Speers and tended by Hess!
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Type this into Google - Wilhelmstraße 23, 13593 Berlin, Germany. This is the site of Spandau Prison, now a supermarket. The garden is to the rear in the car park, what is left of it (seems to have had work done on it, landscaping, a lot of bushes and trees missing). Use the 3D button to get in close.
My mother who lived through WW2, half Estonian, half Russian and lived in Estonia for her first 20 years married a German who also grew up in Estonia. He was conscripted into the German Army and tragically died in the final months of the war in 1945. She always said that the Germans knew if the US entered the war, it was over. And it was Churchill's mission to use every tactic to accomplish that.
@@TheWorld-xs8ly Actual General Halder was hired by USA and General Halder was the only person having access to the germans archives USA got their hands on. So everybody wanted to write a book about wwII have to go through General Halder. There had been some claims that the job General Halder had was to manage the litterature to point all failures to Hitler in person and not the german army and to create an image that russia was the main enemy (for all) to get the german population to backup the NATO plans and to potrait the russians as primitive that only won because help from USA.
@@henrikhilskov - What? That makes no sense at all. This did not happen centuries ago. In fact, there are some WWII veterans still alive. ALL sides have shared their stories. And, even if what you said is true, what about movies and other forms of information out there now. Many Germans Historians HAVE written about the war. Joachaim Fest was one of my favorite but there are many more
Hess was not imprisoned over how many men he killed, or toiled. His crime was ideological. Had he not written that book, nazism may not have been the sweeping (and unfortunately somewhat lasting) ideology it is. His thoughts and what he could express led to an outcome his following would be willing to repeat, even if he didn't want them to.
@@BigWheel. Plus, Hess knew exactly what his "boss" was up to. He knew about, and shared, the antisemitism; maybe not to the same extent, we don't necessarily know. And, he signed a Lot of infamous documents, including antisemitic legislation.
A relative was one of the many army personnel that guarded Hess , shared jointly by the major powers . He always said that the Russian guards would stick strictly to the rules and allow no relaxation of them .
The other three powers wanted to move Hess some place else, because he was the only prisoner left at Spandau, and it cost a huge amount to keep him there. I think there were also people who wanted to see him released, by the time he was an old man. The Russians absolutely refused.
Agree with his Hess synopsis...something others have held. Nice to hear it from a person who actually interrogated those stinking Nazis....blessings sir.
I remember reading a book about Rudolf Hess in the early 80,s written by the chief (Ithink) American medical officer when Hess was imprisoned in Spandau.One point he made was that he had access to Hess,s medical records and was aware of a serious chest wound that Hess had sustained in WW1.When confronted with this fact by the American M.O. and also that no sign of this damage to the prisoners ribcage was present the man purporting to be Hess was completely taken aback .The theory was then suggested that the Nazis were employing a double to imitate Hess for whatever reason , and thus explaining a convenient bout of amnesia.All the above may well have been disproved and maybe the best we can hope for is that some WW2 souvenir hunter has got a pair of Herr Hess,s socks stashed away in a drawer somewhere just waiting for a DNA comparison
MAX BACON, after concluding that this man claiming to be Hess did not have the chest wound that medical records indicated he should, the doctor asked him who he was. He was more than taken aback by the question - he was terrified, per the doctor’s statement. It seems that he deficated on the floor as a result of his panic.
@@johnstirling6597 The "fake Hess" story is ludicrous! It's quite obvious it's the same man in all the photos. Hess had a very definite appearance that would be incredibly hard to fake.
@Rich It's more that they were convinced they could get the Americans to join them and thus win, so knowledge of German peace offerings were suppressed. Hence why Hess was sent in such a public manner. The hope was that the British would be unable to cover it up from the public... problem is he landed in such a rural area that they *were* able to cover it up.
He think he acted alone too. If he had gone with a load of German's it would have looked like some kind of invasion plot, maybe a mission to plant spies before an invasion. Going alone he could say I'm acting as a diplomat here on behalf of Hitler. Why the hell he didn't just write a letter though to these Lords and the King etc, all the elements who they thought could be swayed or sway the government to a neutrality pact over Russia, coming from Hitler himself that would have carried more weight. The King might have put that to Parliament to avoid an all out war.
As far as the radar not being able to pick up Hess. Radar back then was not as good as it is today obviously and picking up one plane a small Messerschmitt was highly unlikely you would have to have at least four to five planes or more for the radar to ping back. Also that being said Hess was also an experienced pilot. And I think if Hitler was going to send somebody else there he wouldn't send someone like Hess
The radar did pick up the flight Hess made. He was tracked, then followed by RAF planes, which didn't reach him before he bailed out. We know this because he had overshot the property he was looking for, and doubled back, which the radar detected. It was after that when the RAF was on his trail.
I don't know what kinds of expertise it takes to become the Ambassador to Luxembourg, but whatever it is that distinguishes this 'diplomat extraordinaire', it isn't a knowledge of history... nor geography. Hess, as he states, did NOT fly to England... he flew to Scotland! Get it right Sir! And, cutting him some slack, if he knew that all along, and merely fell back on that lazy substitution of saying 'England' instead of the correct 'Britain', then even more shame!
Between 1942 and 1945 Rudolph Hess was imprisoned at the mental health hospital Maindiff Court in Abergavenny, South Wales. Abergavenny is my home town. My former teacher as a teenager during the Second World War worked at Maindiff Court and regularly saw Hess with his guards walking around the grounds at the hospital. Hess was often taken out and driven around the local Welsh countryside(which is beautiful), and through the town of Abergavenny. At the end of the war Hess left Abergavenny and was sent to Nuremberg.
We punished Hess and others too severely and we let off mass murderers with barely a disapproving look. Check out Wikipedia article on Treblinka perpetrators. They even got pensions.
Also Hess had no more reason to cover up the details and orders for his flight after the war was over. There was a little book published already shortly after 1945 by R.Hess' wife based on the letters she has received from her husband before Hess was sent to Spandau. In these letters Hess clearly explains very detailed facts about his flight. Hess was an excentric man ready to risk himself and all he had gained to save his "beloved" Leader and the State he believed in. He did this all on his Own
@JT Schnitz Just study more in depth these events. Hitler was preparing the attack on the Soviet Union.(FM Paulus confirms this during his testimony in Nuremberg in 1946 (check youtube Jackson Channel). Despite the Non Agression and Cooperation Treaty signed by Ribbentrop in Moscow in 1939. Molotov has been in Berlin in 1940 to develop further the Treaty. With a proposal that the USSR is ready to join the Axis. With Japan having made a treaty to remain in peace with the Soviet Union on the other side of the globe. To make sure that Stalin is not going to believe that the Germans will change their target from defeating the British to invading the USSR, it was most crucial for the plan that Stalin will not get suspicious to the point to start a more agressive stance against his treacherous allies. Hess knew about the ultimate outcome of Hitlers "friendly" moves with the Soviets. The goal was to destroy the Soviet Army and occupy the USSR forever. Hitler and Hess would have appreciated that the war against the British stopped before the regime of Stalin had to be taken down. But of course, never Hitler would have taken the risk to send anybody with so much knowledge all by himself in the midst of country, which was at war with Germany. Torturing, drug injections, many ways existed to make talk and retrieve secrets. The British could have revealed the plan of the Germans to attack their "allies" by delivering evidence. This was a far too big risk, obviously.To make the surprise of the planned invasion fail. Hitler was most upset and feared that Hess would talk about the attack on the USSR. Even if not in detail. It would just make the Soviets become more "paranoid." These always checked for indicators revealing a new deal between the British and the Germans, which, of course, will target them. The capitalists and Nazis united against the Soviets. With a deputy of Hitler showing up in the UK, obviously Stalin was on high alert.. that his hopes to keep the Germans busy in the West may vanish quicker than expected. Stalin in 1940 had no intentions to become the ally of the British. He had thousands of Polish officers shot because he believed that the deal with the Nazis would last. Hitler prefered to take huge risks in his gamble. Instead of letting the USSR join the military alliance with him and have them become a fighting opponent of the British, Hitler rather choose to fight on two sides. Something Stalin was apparently not ready to accept as a fact, even though the first german troops had already crossed the borders. Hess was declared insane and the Soviets continued to work with Hitler despite increasing signs that something may be wrong with their German partners.
Hess simply refused to partake in the obscene revenge show trial at Nuremburg. As Patton said we sided with the wrong side and he paid the price for that too.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ambassador Dolibois and listen to him speak while studying at Miami University. Very interesting and sharp man with intriguing insights regarding WWII. I also had the honor of studying abroad at the Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg while at Miami. The ambassador will always have a special place in my heart.
But its not true why would hitler send hess alone to a scottish lord who has no power one day after the heaviest bombardment of GB by the German Air Force.
It's probably stuff like, "Hey, can I get a glass of water?" "I need a bathroom break." It's really sad how cynical and untrusting some people are. The guy was apparently talking about everything he knew, and this wasn't like some secret interview with MI6 or the CIA, and cut up in the middle of sentences or something.
Ummmm. He was detected multiple times with multiple intercept attempts. He also landed 10-20 miles away from the intended property. FFS. A lot of weird assumption here.
Interesting, but Speer's account is that Hitler was furious when he discovered what Hess had done, apparently he was heard shouting and screaming about it.
the other part of hitler's peace offer was that churchill would have to resign as prime minister, which of course churchill couldnt stomach so he kept it secret and prolonged the war to advance his own career.
The Duke of Hamilton - in addition to being a duke - was also a high ranking RAF officer, and he was responsible for the air defence of the area where Hess landed... I think this is why Doilbois said they must have known he was coming.
Americans call people from the UK English just like Europeans call people from North America including Canadians: American. As a Canadian, there is no need to be offended because no offense is intended. We’re all well aware of Scotland’s independence debate.
@@gosforthlad That was actually Hitler's niece... Officially she committed suicide, but the rumor was she was pregnant with Hitler's kid and assassinated. Or at the very least, heavily encouraged to kill herself.
The obvious inconsistency in Dolibois' peculiar conspiracy theory relates to his claim that an alleged pro-German or defeatist faction among the British authorities (at the very least a highly questionable assumption in itself) was so influential that, knowing exactly where and when Hess was going to appear in the sky, it somehow was able to subvert the proper operation of the British air defence system and stop the RAF from intercepting him. Yet at the same time these influential conspirators were unable to position anybody "within twenty yards" of Hess's intended landing site―on the estate of one of their leaders! They thus failed to negate the clearly foreseeable possibility of a pitchfork-wielding tenant farmer apprehending either the pilot of a landing German aircraft or a German parachutist. (It could hardly have been more comically absurd if Old MacDonald had been fully attired in kilt and sporran.) As to whether Hess was acting alone or with Hitler's assent, that is another question entirely. By way of aside to the subject of this video, the officer who conducted the initial security service (Mi5) interrogation of Hess after his 1941 flight to Scotland was one Brinley Newton John. After the war he was to hyphenate his surname and emigrate to Australia, where he became an eminent university administrator and the father of a famous entertainer. Whether he greeted his captive with the declaration "You're the one that I want!" has yet to be confirmed as the transcript remains classified.
Very good points in your first paragraph. I also doubt that the British could or would refuse the Americans access to Hess if they had wanted to talk to him.
@@powerplay1939 why on earth would Amb. Dolibois invent this ? This story is so old that nobody can be damaged by the truth about it coming out. You know more ? Do tell.
Ian,when you post something barely conciliatory to any German you are going to get brain dead ignoramuses opposing you,like you have got now.BTW even the British Government ,and many American diplomats tried to put pressure on Russia to release him,but to no avail.There is also conjecture that he was in fact murdered by the guards in Spandau as they just wanted rid of the problem and also ,if free,what secrets he could reveal.
Russia was not a nation during Hess's imprisonment (it became one several years after his death), so I'm curious as to how one state within a nation would be able to act internationally to achieve such a thing. I know your comment was a year ago, but if you see this, could you let me know the details about this? Why would one state within a country be allowed to dictate to full nations like that? Why would the Soviet Union allow Russia to act alone in such a way? It seems very bizarre, if true.
Speer’s memoirs actually line up with the theory about Hitler ordering Hess to fly over to England, he talked about how Hitler had this period before he occupied the Rhine where he ‘couldn’t decide between England or Italy’ for an ally, and considered the loss of peace between Germany and England ‘his greatest regret’. Granted he didn’t really know that monarchical power in England didn’t override parliament, but he genuinely wanted England as an ally in the early stages of the war
depends on which witness account you believe from a very long time ago. One witness said he saw the plane land and someone helped him out of the plane. The other account says he jumped out with a parachute.
This gives reasoning to a few questions I've had about Hess. The audio could be better. I wasn't able to listen to this video on my laptop, and I had to turn the volume way up on my desktop.
What a BS this guy is talking about. Hess flew to Scotland with another peace offer. Germany had made 24 offers before Hess flew to Scotland on the 10th of May 1941 All were rejected by Churchill. Hitler never wanted a war with Great Britain at the first place. His goal was to bring the british and german race together. That's why he sent HESS on the 10th of May 1941 to Great Britain. To emphasise that Germany was really interested in a peace deal with Great Britain the attacks on London ceased in the night from the 10th to the 11th May 1941. HESS HAD TO STAY IN PRISON FOR FUCKIN 45 YEARS BECAUSE NOONE WAS ALLOWED TO KNOW WHAT HESS KNEW. HESS KNEW THAT GERMANY WAS WILLING TO STOP FIGHTING AND THAT GREAT BRITAIN REJECTED THE OFFER. It was Great Britains responsibility that this European war turned into a World War because the Americans would have never entered the war if they had known that Hess made this peace offer. That is the really reason why HESS had to be silenced for 45 years and was then murdered age 93 because he could still talk. History would have been rewritten if they did not murder him.
@@findyhutasoit5015 Possibly, but England started bombing Germany because they invaded France, an ally of GB. If left alone Hitler would have tried to take over the world. It's what he wanted. If he had nuclear weapons he certainly would have used them indiscriminately. He had no compunction over killing people. He lost an entire army at Stalingrad and didn't bat an eye.
Unfortunately this is a missperception. If you had read "Mein Kampf" or had listened to one of his speeches you would know that Hitler had no interest in war. Its not your fault though because your thaught this way. I give you a quote out of one of his speeches( I listened to it personally) "We just want peace. We got to know the war We want to reach out our hands to our neighbours, want to collaborate with them. We don't feel resentment, no hatred. However one thing must be clear Germany will never become a Bolschevist State." This should explain everything to you my friend.
Hardly. That would be like a second in command under Sadam Hussein flying to the United States to "make peace." It would only be viewed with complete suspicion, and not really believed, because it seems preposterous.
Rudolf Hess stated that he had a recurring dream : of mothers standing at the head of their child's coffins looking accusingly at him. I believe he went on his own initiative. He was a patriot wanting to avoid the annihilation of Germany and Europe. Their is much more to this story. The man who died in 1987 was a substitute ,who played his part too long. Churchill , that drunken pig, basically handed over Europe to the Soviets, broke the British Empire , and later confessed in his memoirs that the war wasn't even about the Nazi's but to destroy the German people...
Hess's identity was confirmed by DNA a few years ago. We'd hoped the conspiracy theorists would stop the ludicrous nonsense. There's no way there was another person looking like him anywhere in the Western world at the same time, either. He was very distinct looking. It might have ( which did NOT happen) worked to find a double for Dönitz, because he wasn't nearly as..."original" looking as Hess.
Off topic but seeing the date being two weeks after September eleventh attacks i don’t know how I could concentrate in a government building like hes in or just in general after the tragedy
2:30 I don't believe that Hitler sent Hess to England because if that were the case, it would have been a poor choice. If he wanted to make a peace deal he would have done it with ambassadors in Switzerland. Hess was known as off the wall. Even servents who had been around him said he was a kook.
They wanted it to be a very public thing because the British government where trying to suppress public knowledge of German peace offerings, as they were concerned due to the Blitz that the public would demand peace negotiations begin... while the British government still held out hope of convincing the Americans of joining in. Hence the hush-hush way Hess was handled during and after the war.
Why would he want to have a pistol if he was there on a mission for peace? Even if he did have one, it would have been stupid for what he was trying to accomplish to wave it around.
David Irving has a great talk on Hess, its on youtube. Hess was a hero who wanted to prevent mindless bloodshed, and i he had of succeeded there would have been statues of him today, denoting him as ‘peacemaker’. However, the alcoholic warmonger Churchill was hellbent on butchery and loosing the British empire instead.
@Walter K Bauer 'Why were they sent to Bermuda?' They were sent to the Bahamas. 'Because their safety couldn't be guaranteed by the RAF, in the event that it needed to bomb Paris.' 'They had already fled Paris as soon as the Germans attacked France.' 'Plus it didn't hurt they had there own Guard unit with them. No 1916 type uprising in Bermuda. They stayed very British debt ladened, just like they are today. ' Or in the Bahamas. Both the Duke and the Duchess were extremely wealthy when they died.
Poor navigation? He bailed out in the middle of the night navigating by landmarks, compass and timing and within a few hours of that he was talking to Hamilton the man he had come to see. That's not poor navigation it's an incredible achievement.
I was told that the russians refused to let Hess be released because they wanted troops in west Berlin when it was there turn to guard him. And yes there was a lot of the landed gentry Nazis at heart, still are to this day if truth be known. Mr Dolibois gives us food for thought on a strange chapter in our recent history.
Many things incorrect with his thesis on Hess. First the Americans knew about a Pro-German faction in the UK and they knew about Hess's landing in Scotland.
People seem to think that the Hess that was brought to trial, was the same one that flew to Scotland. A quick study of photographs (before and after) proves otherwise. There was a good reason that the Hess at Nuremberg could not remember anything, and acted like a lunatic. Why did Goring, during the trial, shout out to the so-called Hess, "tell them your secret"? It wasn't that he was faking amnesia.
And you are an absolute lunatic... people come up with the most strange conspiracies. It was fun at first but it’s just getting boring now... dead joke
Sorry, but there's plenty of people who were there to testify to Hitler's shock and disgust when he found out about Hess' flight. He knew nothing about it. It brought shame onto the entire regime.
There are so many posts here about Hess being murdered. I guess conspiracy theorists are tired of the old Kennedy-killed-by-CIA or aliens-visit-Earth stories. Now they create nonsense about Hess.
An interesting interview but there are some inaccuracies. Hess parachuted onto farmland seven miles away from his preferred destination after failing to find a suitable landing site. He was also tracked by several radar sites, spotted by a trained aircraft spotter and the RAF sent no less than five aircraft up in total in an attempt to intercept Hess’s plane.
I once read hess' amnesia was due to being rejected by his father figure hitler & regained his memory by avoiding being rejected twice by his fellow brothers in the hitler cult during nuremberg
What a very interesting video! I served in West Berlin, seen Hess once, from a thousand feet above the prison as I flew over in a helicopter. Between Hess and Albert Spears created a garden in Spandau Prison (mostly of Spears planting and tending) but Hess took over looking after the garden when he became the last prisoner. The prison was torn down when Hess died in 1987 but most of the garden remained, and a new supermarket was built for the British Forces. In the carpark of the new supermarket towards the back, the garden remained acting as a ending to the perimeter fencing, trees and everything! Even today, if you look at the former site of the prison on the likes of Google Earth, you can see at the back of the site, trees. These were planted by Speers and tended by Hess!
What do I have to look for on Google to find the site?
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Type this into Google - Wilhelmstraße 23, 13593 Berlin, Germany. This is the site of Spandau Prison, now a supermarket. The garden is to the rear in the car park, what is left of it (seems to have had work done on it, landscaping, a lot of bushes and trees missing). Use the 3D button to get in close.
@@AnonAnonAnon ... Thankyou!
You is welcome lovely boy!
its Speer, Albert Speer. not spears.
Thank you for preserving this.
My mother who lived through WW2, half Estonian, half Russian and lived in Estonia for her first 20 years married a German who also grew up in Estonia. He was conscripted into the German Army and tragically died in the final months of the war in 1945. She always said that the Germans knew if the US entered the war, it was over. And it was Churchill's mission to use every tactic to accomplish that.
@RobertHJacksonCenter , correction , 8:20 - he died in Spandau Prison, not Potsdam.
Why didn't they release him,never understood that???
What did Hess do wrong?
The victor always rewrites history.
That’s ridiculous. Do you know how much have been written by the Germans. They were the losers right?
Amen.
@@TheWorld-xs8ly Actual General Halder was hired by USA and General Halder was the only person having access to the germans archives USA got their hands on. So everybody wanted to write a book about wwII have to go through General Halder. There had been some claims that the job General Halder had was to manage the litterature to point all failures to Hitler in person and not the german army and to create an image that russia was the main enemy (for all) to get the german population to backup the NATO plans and to potrait the russians as primitive that only won because help from USA.
Oh that old chestnut,boring
@@henrikhilskov - What? That makes no sense at all. This did not happen centuries ago. In fact, there are some WWII veterans still alive. ALL sides have shared their stories. And, even if what you said is true, what about movies and other forms of information out there now. Many Germans Historians HAVE written about the war. Joachaim Fest was one of my favorite but there are many more
Opinions are like noses everybody has one.
Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one, but we don't want it waved in our face! haha
Except for Artie Lange
Insightful- for what it's worth I agree.
@Sir Tristan No more or less then yours.
Hess flew to Scotland on the night of May 10, 1941 in an ME 110 fighter bomber, bailed out over Eaglesham and injured his leg in the process.
He flew to England according to Dolibois. I suppose that's a distinction without a difference to him.
@@euan7166 According to everyone in the British government at the time, too, plus some civilians.
@@paigetomkinson1137 He flew to Eaglesham in SCOTLAND and I'm only 5 miles away from the crash site.
@@euan7166 It's actually ignorance and shows a lack of geographical knowledge.
Karl Dönitz and Albert Speer did more damage than Rudolf Hess.
Hess was not imprisoned over how many men he killed, or toiled. His crime was ideological. Had he not written that book, nazism may not have been the sweeping (and unfortunately somewhat lasting) ideology it is. His thoughts and what he could express led to an outcome his following would be willing to repeat, even if he didn't want them to.
@@BigWheel. Plus, Hess knew exactly what his "boss" was up to. He knew about, and shared, the antisemitism; maybe not to the same extent, we don't necessarily know. And, he signed a Lot of infamous documents, including antisemitic legislation.
A relative was one of the many army personnel that guarded Hess , shared jointly by the major powers . He always said that the Russian guards would stick strictly
to the rules and allow no relaxation of them .
@JAG The Soviets suddenly forgot how to keep people in jail?
The other three powers wanted to move Hess some place else, because he was the only prisoner left at Spandau, and it cost a huge amount to keep him there. I think there were also people who wanted to see him released, by the time he was an old man. The Russians absolutely refused.
Agree with his Hess synopsis...something others have held. Nice to hear it from a person who actually interrogated those stinking Nazis....blessings sir.
Allies did an injustice to Hess for keeping him locked up
Hess always seemed like the Fredo (Corleone) of the bunch
Hitler may have been mad that he failed, not that he tried
The phrase "It's hard to get good help these days" may have been coined in Berlin.
Hess flew a daring mission to attempt to stop a war that ultimately killed 60 million people. Sounds like he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
I remember reading a book about Rudolf Hess in the early 80,s written by the chief (Ithink) American medical officer when Hess was imprisoned in Spandau.One point he made was that he had access to Hess,s medical records and was aware of a serious chest wound that Hess had sustained in WW1.When confronted with this fact by the American M.O. and also that no sign of this damage to the prisoners ribcage was present the man purporting to be Hess was completely taken aback .The theory was then suggested that the Nazis were employing a double to imitate Hess for whatever reason , and thus explaining a convenient bout of amnesia.All the above may well have been disproved and maybe the best we can hope for is that some WW2 souvenir hunter has got a pair of Herr Hess,s socks stashed away in a drawer somewhere just waiting for a DNA comparison
MAX BACON, after concluding that this man claiming to be Hess did not have the chest wound that medical records indicated he should, the doctor asked him who he was. He was more than taken aback by the question - he was terrified, per the doctor’s statement. It seems that he deficated on the floor as a result of his panic.
There is a video on RUclips covering this subject and has completely debunked the whole "fake" Hess theory.
@@johnstirling6597 The "fake Hess" story is ludicrous! It's quite obvious it's the same man in all the photos. Hess had a very definite appearance that would be incredibly hard to fake.
Very questioning didnt they wabt war anf conqoure all of the world???
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Hitler id bet did send him... never knew that till now... i think yes on that one...
Rudolf Hess survived Nuremberg...?!
Yes. Read all about it in Speer's "The Spandau Diaries."
You DIDN'T KNOW???
Yes he remained the solitary prisoner in Spandau prison for decades...
Survived? He never should have even spent life in prison. He committed no war crimes and held no real power once the war started.
I disagree. Hess acted alone.
@Rich It's more that they were convinced they could get the Americans to join them and thus win, so knowledge of German peace offerings were suppressed.
Hence why Hess was sent in such a public manner. The hope was that the British would be unable to cover it up from the public... problem is he landed in such a rural area that they *were* able to cover it up.
@Rich I bet you were drunk when you made this rant
He think he acted alone too. If he had gone with a load of German's it would have looked like some kind of invasion plot, maybe a mission to plant spies before an invasion. Going alone he could say I'm acting as a diplomat here on behalf of Hitler. Why the hell he didn't just write a letter though to these Lords and the King etc, all the elements who they thought could be swayed or sway the government to a neutrality pact over Russia, coming from Hitler himself that would have carried more weight. The King might have put that to Parliament to avoid an all out war.
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@Rich I see you Vlad 🇷🇺
As far as the radar not being able to pick up Hess. Radar back then was not as good as it is today obviously and picking up one plane a small Messerschmitt was highly unlikely you would have to have at least four to five planes or more for the radar to ping back. Also that being said Hess was also an experienced pilot. And I think if Hitler was going to send somebody else there he wouldn't send someone like Hess
The radar did pick up the flight Hess made. He was tracked, then followed by RAF planes, which didn't reach him before he bailed out. We know this because he had overshot the property he was looking for, and doubled back, which the radar detected. It was after that when the RAF was on his trail.
I don't know what kinds of expertise it takes to become the Ambassador to Luxembourg, but whatever it is that distinguishes this 'diplomat extraordinaire', it isn't a knowledge of history... nor geography. Hess, as he states, did NOT fly to England... he flew to Scotland! Get it right Sir! And, cutting him some slack, if he knew that all along, and merely fell back on that lazy substitution of saying 'England' instead of the correct 'Britain', then even more shame!
Correct - a lot of incorrect information in this interview/monologue
Deluded nonsense.
I noticed you cut out names at 4 minutes. Are you afraid of them or protecting them?
Between 1942 and 1945 Rudolph Hess was imprisoned at the mental health hospital Maindiff Court in Abergavenny, South Wales. Abergavenny is my home town. My former teacher as a teenager during the Second World War worked at Maindiff Court and regularly saw Hess with his guards walking around the grounds at the hospital. Hess was often taken out and driven around the local Welsh countryside(which is beautiful), and through the town of Abergavenny. At the end of the war Hess left Abergavenny and was sent to Nuremberg.
This was actually very compelling. Ive never thought about Hess' famous flight in this light before.
Because its not true. Hitler was furious about hess betrayal.
@@powerplay1939 no he was furious about Jess's failure to succeed in the mission he sent him on.
We punished Hess and others too severely and we let off mass murderers with barely a disapproving look. Check out Wikipedia article on Treblinka perpetrators. They even got pensions.
@Sam Armstrong enlighten us with your wisdom.
Imagine landing on your mission & a farmer with a pitchfork does a citizens arrest... 😂😂
He surrendered himself to the farmer in order to get to the Duke of Hamilton...
Presumably Hess could have easily shot the farmer if he wanted to.
Also Hess had no more reason to cover up the details and orders for his flight after the war was over. There was a little book published already shortly after 1945 by R.Hess' wife based on the letters she has received from her husband before Hess was sent to Spandau. In these letters Hess clearly explains very detailed facts about his flight. Hess was an excentric man ready to risk himself and all he had gained to save his "beloved" Leader and the State he believed in. He did this all on his Own
@JT Schnitz Just study more in depth these events.
Hitler was preparing the attack on the Soviet Union.(FM Paulus confirms this during his testimony in Nuremberg in 1946 (check youtube Jackson Channel). Despite the Non Agression and Cooperation Treaty signed by Ribbentrop in Moscow in 1939. Molotov has been in Berlin in 1940 to develop further the Treaty. With a proposal that the USSR is ready to join the Axis. With Japan having made a treaty to remain in peace with the Soviet Union on the other side of the globe. To make sure that Stalin is not going to believe that the Germans will change their target from defeating the British to invading the USSR, it was most crucial for the plan that Stalin will not get suspicious to the point to start a more agressive stance against his treacherous allies. Hess knew about the ultimate outcome of Hitlers "friendly" moves with the Soviets. The goal was to destroy the Soviet Army and occupy the USSR forever. Hitler and Hess would have appreciated that the war against the British stopped before the regime of Stalin had to be taken down. But of course, never Hitler would have taken the risk to send anybody with so much knowledge all by himself in the midst of country, which was at war with Germany. Torturing, drug injections, many ways existed to make talk and retrieve secrets. The British could have revealed the plan of the Germans to attack their "allies" by delivering evidence. This was a far too big risk, obviously.To make the surprise of the planned invasion fail. Hitler was most upset and feared that Hess would talk about the attack on the USSR. Even if not in detail. It would just make the Soviets become more "paranoid." These always checked for indicators revealing a new deal between the British and the Germans, which, of course, will target them. The capitalists and Nazis united against the Soviets. With a deputy of Hitler showing up in the UK, obviously Stalin was on high alert.. that his hopes to keep the Germans busy in the West may vanish quicker than expected. Stalin in 1940 had no intentions to become the ally of the British. He had thousands of Polish officers shot because he believed that the deal with the Nazis would last. Hitler prefered to take huge risks in his gamble. Instead of letting the USSR join the military alliance with him and have them become a fighting opponent of the British, Hitler rather choose to fight on two sides. Something Stalin was apparently not ready to accept as a fact, even though the first german troops had already crossed the borders. Hess was declared insane and the Soviets continued to work with Hitler despite increasing signs that something may be wrong with their German partners.
Hess simply refused to partake in the obscene revenge show trial at Nuremburg. As Patton said we sided with the wrong side and he paid the price for that too.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ambassador Dolibois and listen to him speak while studying at Miami University. Very interesting and sharp man with intriguing insights regarding WWII.
I also had the honor of studying abroad at the Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg while at Miami. The ambassador will always have a special place in my heart.
Finally a theory that makes sense.
With you on that.
But its not true why would hitler send hess alone to a scottish lord who has no power one day after the heaviest bombardment of GB by the German Air Force.
Would really like to hear the parts the have edited out, very badly so at least we can tell there is missing information.
It's probably stuff like, "Hey, can I get a glass of water?" "I need a bathroom break." It's really sad how cynical and untrusting some people are. The guy was apparently talking about everything he knew, and this wasn't like some secret interview with MI6 or the CIA, and cut up in the middle of sentences or something.
Ummmm. He was detected multiple times with multiple intercept attempts. He also landed 10-20 miles away from the intended property. FFS. A lot of weird assumption here.
Correct - this guy is a faulty rememberer
Interesting, but Speer's account is that Hitler was furious when he discovered what Hess had done, apparently he was heard shouting and screaming about it.
the other part of hitler's peace offer was that churchill would have to resign as prime minister, which of course churchill couldnt stomach so he kept it secret and prolonged the war to advance his own career.
Somebody knew he was coming? Had not heard that before...
The Duke of Hamilton - in addition to being a duke - was also a high ranking RAF officer, and he was responsible for the air defence of the area where Hess landed... I think this is why Doilbois said they must have known he was coming.
@@palkd8296 cant understand why if they knew he was coming and had the intentions to arrest him why they would let me through the defenses.
When will the Hess papers be released to the public? What is being hidden?
Hess flew to Scotland, not England.
He said Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland.
Scotland is a province of England. Conquered in war. Subjugated by the State. Defended by the RAF and Royal Navy.
@@jefferystutsman6419 its belongs to we Anglo Saxons and we will never surrender it.
Americans call people from the UK English just like Europeans call people from North America including Canadians: American. As a Canadian, there is no need to be offended because no offense is intended. We’re all well aware of Scotland’s independence debate.
Any leader would feel lucky to have a guy as loyal as Hess !!!
Or a secret lover ?
@@gosforthlad That was actually Hitler's niece... Officially she committed suicide, but the rumor was she was pregnant with Hitler's kid and assassinated. Or at the very least, heavily encouraged to kill herself.
hitler was annoyed by hess
The obvious inconsistency in Dolibois' peculiar conspiracy theory relates to his claim that an alleged pro-German or defeatist faction among the British authorities (at the very least a highly questionable assumption in itself) was so influential that, knowing exactly where and when Hess was going to appear in the sky, it somehow was able to subvert the proper operation of the British air defence system and stop the RAF from intercepting him. Yet at the same time these influential conspirators were unable to position anybody "within twenty yards" of Hess's intended landing site―on the estate of one of their leaders! They thus failed to negate the clearly foreseeable possibility of a pitchfork-wielding tenant farmer apprehending either the pilot of a landing German aircraft or a German parachutist. (It could hardly have been more comically absurd if Old MacDonald had been fully attired in kilt and sporran.) As to whether Hess was acting alone or with Hitler's assent, that is another question entirely.
By way of aside to the subject of this video, the officer who conducted the initial security service (Mi5) interrogation of Hess after his 1941 flight to Scotland was one Brinley Newton John. After the war he was to hyphenate his surname and emigrate to Australia, where he became an eminent university administrator and the father of a famous entertainer. Whether he greeted his captive with the declaration "You're the one that I want!" has yet to be confirmed as the transcript remains classified.
Very good points in your first paragraph. I also doubt that the British could or would refuse the Americans access to Hess if they had wanted to talk to him.
Very interesting interview: the best explanation I’ve heard about Hess’s weird mission.
its not true
@@powerplay1939 why on earth would Amb. Dolibois invent this ? This story is so old that nobody can be damaged by the truth about it coming out. You know more ? Do tell.
The Russians stopped him from being released
Ian Muir Good.
Ian,when you post something barely conciliatory to any German you are going to get brain dead ignoramuses opposing you,like you have got now.BTW even the British Government ,and many American diplomats tried to put pressure on Russia to release him,but to no avail.There is also conjecture that he was in fact murdered by the guards in Spandau as they just wanted rid of the problem and also ,if free,what secrets he could reveal.
Russia was not a nation during Hess's imprisonment (it became one several years after his death), so I'm curious as to how one state within a nation would be able to act internationally to achieve such a thing. I know your comment was a year ago, but if you see this, could you let me know the details about this? Why would one state within a country be allowed to dictate to full nations like that? Why would the Soviet Union allow Russia to act alone in such a way? It seems very bizarre, if true.
@@InternationalScot Good? How and why? They knew he KNEW things.
@@IgnatzKolisch The USSR had its beginnings in Russia and Moscow was the head of the USSR.
I think this the wisdom of God he survived after the war not like Hitler or others criminals
Speer’s memoirs actually line up with the theory about Hitler ordering Hess to fly over to England, he talked about how Hitler had this period before he occupied the Rhine where he ‘couldn’t decide between England or Italy’ for an ally, and considered the loss of peace between Germany and England ‘his greatest regret’. Granted he didn’t really know that monarchical power in England didn’t override parliament, but he genuinely wanted England as an ally in the early stages of the war
A very astute chap and someone worth paying attention to!
Very interesting and a rational assessment.
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Andrew Wake nobody should know the complete and true (hi)story, not yet
Hess did not land..Hess jumped, actually an amazing thing
depends on which witness account you believe from a very long time ago. One witness said he saw the plane land and someone helped him out of the plane. The other account says he jumped out with a parachute.
@@watchgoose there's photographs of the broken up plane, from the morning after, it crashed.
He jumped. Then, he landed. He also smashed up one of his ankles doing so. Parts of his plane are in the UK'S National Museum of Flight.
This gives reasoning to a few questions I've had about Hess.
The audio could be better. I wasn't able to listen to this video on my laptop, and I had to turn the volume way up on my desktop.
History is crucial in preserving it…. It allows us never to make the same mistakes!!!!! Never forget!!!
or it wasn't the real Hess
A good microphone would help here.
That is why I'm reading the comment . I can't hear what's going on
Makes total sense.
I've always wondered why Hess was given life in prison and held there until he was 93, in a huge prison all alone. Why wasn't the old man released?
What a BS this guy is talking about.
Hess flew to Scotland with another peace offer.
Germany had made 24 offers before Hess flew to Scotland on the 10th of May 1941
All were rejected by Churchill.
Hitler never wanted a war with Great Britain at the first place.
His goal was to bring the british and german race together.
That's why he sent HESS on the
10th of May 1941 to Great Britain.
To emphasise that Germany was really interested in a peace deal with Great Britain the attacks on London ceased in the night from the 10th to the 11th May 1941.
HESS HAD TO STAY IN PRISON FOR FUCKIN 45 YEARS BECAUSE NOONE WAS ALLOWED TO KNOW WHAT HESS KNEW.
HESS KNEW THAT GERMANY WAS WILLING TO STOP FIGHTING AND THAT GREAT BRITAIN REJECTED THE OFFER.
It was Great Britains responsibility that this European war turned into a World War
because the Americans would have never entered the war if they had known that Hess made this peace offer.
That is the really reason why HESS had to be silenced for 45 years and was then murdered age 93 because he could still talk.
History would have been rewritten if they did not murder him.
@@findyhutasoit5015 Possibly, but England started bombing Germany because they invaded France, an ally of GB. If left alone Hitler would have tried to take over the world. It's what he wanted. If he had nuclear weapons he certainly would have used them indiscriminately. He had no compunction over killing people. He lost an entire army at Stalingrad and didn't bat an eye.
Unfortunately this is a missperception.
If you had read "Mein Kampf" or had listened to one of his speeches you would know that Hitler had no interest in war.
Its not your fault though because your thaught this way.
I give you a quote out of one of his speeches( I listened to it personally)
"We just want peace.
We got to know the war
We want to reach out our hands to our neighbours, want to collaborate with them.
We don't feel resentment, no hatred.
However one thing must be clear
Germany will never become a Bolschevist State."
This should explain everything to you my friend.
@@1940limited if that's the case why then didn't Hitler use the tonnes of chemical weapons they had stockpiled?
@@findyhutasoit5015 Of course, just take Hitler's word for it. Germany did!
Theres no way Hitler instructed Hess to fly to England, this guy is way off in my opinion.
Hesse must have written or saïd more than is acknowledged about what hé knew about AH and thé nazis
History coming to life. Good history.
Except.for howling at the moon he was ok guy
Another video says Hess only learned how to fly for the trip to Scotland.
Now adays Hess would be given a noble peace prize for partaking in such a mission
*Nobel
Hardly. That would be like a second in command under Sadam Hussein flying to the United States to "make peace." It would only be viewed with complete suspicion, and not really believed, because it seems preposterous.
It was a peace mission. 50 million dead later proved a point.
If only they'd listened .
supernumery I think you talking about the soviets
@supernumery
George Bush and Beelzebama waged a war of aggression in the Middle East.
Who murdered Hess?
At age 93? I dunno, God?
@@LardGreystoke ... he was killed. Probably.
At 93, the man was playing racket ball, running marathons, and rock climbing. Very good question.
Take a look.. THEY MAKE MISTAKES!
Rudolf Hess stated that he had a recurring dream : of mothers standing at the head of their child's coffins looking accusingly at him. I believe he went on his own initiative. He was a patriot wanting to avoid the annihilation of Germany and Europe. Their is much more to this story. The man who died in 1987 was a substitute ,who played his part too long. Churchill , that drunken pig, basically handed over Europe to the Soviets, broke the British Empire , and later confessed in his memoirs that the war wasn't even about the Nazi's but to destroy the German people...
Only the first sentence is correct. The rest all wrong.
Hess's identity was confirmed by DNA a few years ago. We'd hoped the conspiracy theorists would stop the ludicrous nonsense. There's no way there was another person looking like him anywhere in the Western world at the same time, either. He was very distinct looking. It might have ( which did NOT happen) worked to find a double for Dönitz, because he wasn't nearly as..."original" looking as Hess.
Off topic but seeing the date being two weeks after September eleventh attacks i don’t know how I could concentrate in a government building like hes in or just in general after the tragedy
What did Hess knew
Logical explaination!
Very interesting.
Interview is interesting, comments from the loonies with an axe to grind are jaw dropping.
2:30 I don't believe that Hitler sent Hess to England because if that were the case, it would have been a poor choice.
If he wanted to make a peace deal he would have done it with ambassadors in Switzerland.
Hess was known as off the wall. Even servents who had been around him said he was a kook.
They wanted it to be a very public thing because the British government where trying to suppress public knowledge of German peace offerings, as they were concerned due to the Blitz that the public would demand peace negotiations begin... while the British government still held out hope of convincing the Americans of joining in. Hence the hush-hush way Hess was handled during and after the war.
@supernumery Yet you go ahead and prove what a dumb fuck you are proving you know nothing about the United Sates except how obviously jealous you are.
@supernumery Congratulations. First troll post in the thread. You win the prize. You must be proud.
Did Hess not have a pistol ?
I wondered the same thing..
Exactly, the official story stinks.
Why would he want to have a pistol if he was there on a mission for peace? Even if he did have one, it would have been stupid for what he was trying to accomplish to wave it around.
David Irving has a great talk on Hess, its on youtube. Hess was a hero who wanted to prevent mindless bloodshed, and i he had of succeeded there would have been statues of him today, denoting him as ‘peacemaker’. However, the alcoholic warmonger Churchill was hellbent on butchery and loosing the British empire instead.
And thank God, the British lost the empire. Sincerely, a former subject.
Isn't he a holocaust denier, and if so, then why would I believe anything that comes out of his mouth or what he puts down on paper?
OMG. People need to get a grip.
100pc true. Warmonger Churchill destroyed the UK.
Why was Hess murdered...?
this story about h & g is super crazy!
An Alle ! Bitte lesen : Gerard Menuhin "Wahrhet sagen , Teufel jagen" .
At 3:55 the video is edited apparently to give some Royal Family's name some cover. I wonder which ones.
Walter K Bauer That wasn’t edited out.
Definitely cut at that point . Suspicious .
@Walter K Bauer Complete nonsense on steroids. The Duke of Windsor was sent to Bermuda for the duration along with his wife.
@supernumery
Like this post.
@Walter K Bauer
'Why were they sent to Bermuda?'
They were sent to the Bahamas.
'Because their safety couldn't be guaranteed by the RAF, in the event that it needed to bomb Paris.'
'They had already fled Paris as soon as the Germans attacked France.'
'Plus it didn't hurt they had there own Guard unit with them. No 1916 type uprising in Bermuda. They stayed very British debt ladened, just like they are today.
'
Or in the Bahamas. Both the Duke and the Duchess were extremely wealthy when they died.
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He got uncomfortable when he talked about how hess got suicided
Fascinating. What a sad life though.
What a interesting theory !
and he didn't fly to England but to scotland (poor navigation and was taken prisoner and transported to england
The Duke of Hamilton lived in Scotland. Wouldn't have been much point in landing elsewhere.
Poor navigation? He bailed out in the middle of the night navigating by landmarks, compass and timing and within a few hours of that he was talking to Hamilton the man he had come to see. That's not poor navigation it's an incredible achievement.
Very correct
Nuremberg Trials were the ultimate puppet trials the guilty verdict was a hit job. But as the saying goes "To the victor go the spoils"
Nope.
I was told that the russians refused to let Hess be released because they wanted troops in west Berlin when it was there turn to guard him. And yes there was a lot of the landed gentry Nazis at heart, still are to this day if truth be known. Mr Dolibois gives us food for thought on a strange chapter in our recent history.
Many things incorrect with his thesis on Hess. First the Americans knew about a Pro-German faction in the UK and they knew about Hess's landing in Scotland.
People seem to think that the Hess that was brought to trial, was the same one that flew to Scotland. A quick study of photographs (before and after) proves otherwise. There was a good reason that the Hess at Nuremberg could not remember anything, and acted like a lunatic. Why did Goring, during the trial, shout out to the so-called Hess, "tell them your secret"? It wasn't that he was faking amnesia.
craxd1 Göring broo
And you are an absolute lunatic... people come up with the most strange conspiracies. It was fun at first but it’s just getting boring now... dead joke
Yes, it would take a Swede to promote the lies of the Nazis.
Ure koo koo.
Sorry, but there's plenty of people who were there to testify to Hitler's shock and disgust when he found out about Hess' flight. He knew nothing about it. It brought shame onto the entire regime.
Total Rubbish.
The bloke might have met Hess but he was badly informed about the Hess's lunatic flight to Scotland.
Of course...you know better right? Lmfao
@@TheWorld-xs8ly
Yes, I do know better.
@@thevillaaston7811 Yes. Not talking to a source always beats talking to a source.
@@thevillaaston7811 And what exactly do you know, how do you know it and what is(are) your source(s)?
The"Hess mess". Tortured homosexual.
There are so many posts here about Hess being murdered. I guess conspiracy theorists are tired of the old Kennedy-killed-by-CIA or aliens-visit-Earth stories. Now they create nonsense about Hess.
An interesting interview but there are some inaccuracies. Hess parachuted onto farmland seven miles away from his preferred destination after failing to find a suitable landing site. He was also tracked by several radar sites, spotted by a trained aircraft spotter and the RAF sent no less than five aircraft up in total in an attempt to intercept Hess’s plane.
I once read hess' amnesia was due to being rejected by his father figure hitler & regained his memory by avoiding being rejected twice by his fellow brothers in the hitler cult during nuremberg
No story here Hess was a mess and the bunch of loons in charge of the machine