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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