Rudolf Hess obituary

Title

Rudolf Hess obituary

Genre

Obituary; Feature

TX Date

18 Aug 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:05:08

Description

Dave Loyn presents a feature on the death of Rudolf Hess. Includes Hess’s sentencing at the Nuremberg Trials; Wolf Rudiger Hess’s account of his father’s flight to Britain; Lord Douglas-Hamilton (junior) on his father’s involvement, and Winston Churchill’s refusal to see Hess; former Spandau Prison Governor, Colonel Eugene K. Bird on Hess’s prison routine; archive recording of Hess leading a crowd in three cheers for Adolf Hitler.

Contributors

Dave Loyn; Wolf Rudiger Hess; James Douglas-Hamilton; Eugene K. Bird

Keywords

Deaths; UK; Prisons; International relations; Nazis; Imprisonment; Trials; Peacebuilding; Rudolf Hess; Second World War (1939-1945); Prisoners; Spandau Prison; Sentencing; Germany FR; Nuremberg Trials; Douglas Douglas-Hamilton; Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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