Analysis of Rudolf Hess and Nuremberg Trials

The Americans moved in with all their righteous self-justification and

set up the Nuremberg trial to put the Nazi war criminals on trial,

and they investigated all the criminals, and Rudolf Hess was among them.

And they sent an American army lieutenant called Eric Lippmann, who was

probably Jewish,

because he lives in Florida afterwards.

They sent Lippmann to Rudolf Hess's house, the family house, to look for evidence

that he was a criminal.

All the Rudolf Hess files in the family house in Hindelang in Bavaria, and Eric

Lippmann spent a whole day going through them, and he wrote a letter to the chief

American prosecutor in Nuremberg, which I've got,

because I wrote a book on the

Nuremberg trials called Nuremberg, The Last Battle.

And Justice Robert H. Jackson, who was the American chief prosecutor,

a very fine man, in fact. He's one of my heroes.

A lot of people don't like Jackson, but I think he set out with the ambition

that

you could end wars by law. Lippmann wrote a letter back to Jackson

saying, I've gone through the Rudolf Hess files in

his house, and he was a fine

guy. We shouldn't be prosecuting him. He was a decent guy.

People wrote to him with complaints, and he acted on the complaints in every

case.

He wasn't corrupt. He wasn't brutal.

He left Germany before the crimes began. We shouldn't be putting him on trial.

Quite an interesting letter, as seen by Rudolf Hess,

the deputy of Hitler.

And Hess's son, Wolf, said, Mr. Irving, how would you like to read all my father's

papers? I didn't know about them. I said, your father's papers?

Where are they? And he said, my mother's got them up in her room.

Rudolf Hess's wife, Ilse, was certainly at that time, when

I went to that house, Hess said, I'll tell you what we'll do.

We've got a guest room downstairs.

I'll install you there for a couple of weeks, and I will smuggle every day two or

three of those ring binders into your room, and you can read them.

I said, Wolf, I will go one stage further. I will list their contents for you.

I will write an inventory of the contents of the Hess papers.

And I did about 80 or 90% of those files in the two weeks I

was there.

People say, well, where are those files now? Because Hess is dead.

His mother's dead.

I'll tell you where they are now. They're in a government archives, not the

German government archives. They're in the Swiss government archives.

Rudolf Hess, his son, gave the family papers to the Swiss

government to look after, and they're now available in the Swiss

government

archives in Bern in Switzerland, because he didn't trust the German

government.

And he's probably not wrong. When you think what the German government

did to the

Hess family grave, the entire gravesite, the whole family,

Rudolf Hess, his wife, the sons, everybody, the graves have been dug up,

and

they have been totally destroyed. The contents have been cremated.

The ashes scattered across the countryside.

Rudolf Hess, throughout his rise to the position of

deputy Führer,

Rudolf Hess was basically a very decent man.

All the Germans recognized this. If they had a beef with the Nazis,

the local Nazi

mayor or the local Nazi police chief, then they would write to Rudolf Hess and

complain, and he would act on it. He would take steps to act on

these malfeasances. I'm not just saying this,

that I'm saying this.

In fact, after the war was over, after the ghastly tragedy of World War II

was

finished.