S1E3:Rudolf Hess
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
25 Sep 200658 minTV-14
Contains Violence.
In 1941, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess undertook a bizarre flight to Scotland offering peace to Britain. He was declared insane by the Fuhrer. As this remarkable BBC drama-documentary reveals, at Nuremberg Hess's fitness for trial was at the heart of his case. He claimed not to remember his Nazi past and suffered from paranoid delusions. But was his strange behavior just a ruse to escape punishment?
