Status Updates From Hess: The Missing Years, 19...

“But what the Führer said to you is important,” the psychologist persisted. “It is important for me personally,” retorted Hess, seated uncomfortably on the edge of his cot. “And, one day, for the German people too. But it is of no concern to the rest of the world or to you foreigners present in court.”

His ambition always was to make peace - both between individuals and between nations. The whole of Europe knows his speech to the veterans of all nations, the veterans who want peace, because they know war. He knew war, because he was a veteran too. If ever there was a statesman who was ready to make every personal sacrifice to bring about peace, it was Rudolf Hess.

“The most important quality of R.H.,” she testified, “was a fanatical obligation to his duties, and he never forgot his princi-ples at any instant. In all things he did he was really a model to other people. I would put it like this: he was a national socialist in the best sense of the word.”

But Hess remained aloof and uncollaborative, offering neither succour to the prosecution nor assistance to his own defence. It is not hard to divine his motive: all others might have deserted and betrayed the Führer; but he, Rudolf Hess, would deputize faithfully for him to the bitter end.

“How few people,” he wrote on 21 June 1945, “can claim the privilege that we can - to have shared right from the start with a unique personage all his joys and sufferings, his hopes and fears, his hatreds and loves: to have witnessed every expression of his greatness, as well as all the petty signs of human weakness which go to make a man worthy of affection.”

In our human existence, everybody has his purpose, even if some people take half a century to realize theirs. And some don’t perceive it at all.

... the man was the rarest of animals, a genuine idealist who unashamedly extolled the pure national socialist doctrine, and idolized its Führer.

Rudolf Hess heard the air-raid sirens and the rival bomber forces passing overhead. This was the development that he had feared, and it was compassion for Europe’s civilians that had inspired his winged mission one year before.

"I could draw up an endless list of Britain’s breaches of treaties and violations of international law down through history. Remember Lawrence of Arabia! It’s common knowledge that he resigned his rank of colonel because he could not approve of Britain not keeping her word to the Arabs. It ill behooves Britain to reproach others for repressing smaller nations. We have not suppressed any little nations..."

"... another telegram, from Connecticut, articulated the
feelings of millions of Americans at that time.
“Courage,” it adjured the now imprisoned deputy Führer. “Christ too thought himself defeated. From a friend in America.”
All of these telegrams were stopped and destroyed."

"Telegrams from neutral well-wishers - addressed to Hess care of British archbishops,
government officials and anywhere else thought likely to reach him - began to pile up in the racks of Churchill’s postal censorship."

Fakes amnesia to get repatriated to Germany. The doctors are convinced he has lost his memory. They think an Evipan treatment will reunite his upper and lower consciousness, solving the problem. Hess considers the secrets he might give up while under the influence of the truth drug. Can he beat it? He agrees to the treatment and beats it. The doctors do up the paperwork.

Fakes amnesia to get repatriated to Germany. The doctors are convinced he has lost his memory. They think an Evipan treatment will reunite his upper and lower consciousness, solving the problem. Hess considers the secrets he might give up while under the influence of the truth drug. Can he beat it? He agrees to the treatment and beats it. The doctors do up the paperwork.

Fakes amnesia to get repatriated to Germany. The doctors are convinced he has lost his memory. They think an Evipan treatment will reunite his upper and lower consciousness, solving the problem. Hess considers the secrets he might give up while under the influence of the truth drug. Can he beat it? He agrees to the treatment and beats it. The doctors do up the paperwork.

Moved for a third time since crash landing 18 months earlier. Moody and irritable. Sometimes paranoid. Recovered from a suicide attempt. Back in Germany his name is removed from street signs and buildings, history books. Occupies himself by writing, drawing, painting, reading newspapers and books and listening to the radio for war reports.

Shares his thoughts on religion, communism, and the party's vision of a german controlled Europe.

"On the question of whether he has the power to negotiate he takes up a God the Father, God the Son attitude - 'I know the Fuhrer and the Fuhrer knows me.'"

After reading horoscopes and talking to astrologers Hess is convinced it is not only his duty but his destiny to bring an end to the war.

Hess looked at his new born son. He could tell by the shape of his right ear that he would grow up to be a musician.

Hess, unhappy with his health has turned to naturopaths. He is seeing one that can diagnose any illness by looking at a person's eye pupil.

Convicted of aiding and abetting high treason... sentenced to 18 months prison in 1924.

Since I started reading WWII books I had wondered what happened to Hess after he flew to Britain to discuss a peace deal without authorization. Now I will find out.

I so rarely stop a book half way through, but I'm going to stop this one: blatant and irritating bias. There are other good bios of Hess.

curiouser and curiouser

I'm getting irritated with the anti-Churchill bias. Still interesting, but not objective history and takes filtering.