Rudolf Hess

He argued that maps could represent aspirations as well as facts, and that they could be used to challenge what he saw as the unequal division of Europe.

after versailles hoffhauser's ideas became hugely influential among those who absorbed his theories were rudolf hess and adolf hitler whom hoffhauser personally tutored while they were serving sentences in landsborough prison for the nineteen twenty three beer After the outbreak of war, many UCL staff were drafted into intelligence roles.

Geographers who spent their careers studying Germany now found their knowledge turned to directing bombing raids, targeting places they had lived in and people they had worked alongside.

The war became a struggle for cartographic as well as military might.

Like he treated everybody.

He treated Goebbels, Goering, Rudolf Hess, Lenny Riefenstahl, Eva Braun, all of them.

And he didn't have the guts to say to them, like, you're mean to me and I don't like you.

So, no, I'm not going to treat you.

One young member ran a counterfeiting cell that forged train tickets to smuggle spies and people in danger out of Munich.

His name was Rudolf Hess.

A friend had brought him into the society and found him a job.

There was also a failed playwright turned antisemitic publisher named Dietrich Eckart.

What he kept were its assets.

The first was people, a handful of Thule members and hangers on became prominent Nazis.

Rudolf Hess, the ticket forger, was a genuine member, probably the most devoted one it ever had.

Once Hitler came on the scene, Hess switched allegiances and attached himself to Hitler.

agree with that.

I mean, having criticized the argument at Hitlerum, I reflect a little bit on Rudolf Hess, who was- very senior in the Nazi hierarchy, hops into an airplane and flies to Great Britain.

I guess it was in 42 or something like that.

And- Parachutes out.

Goering.

Rudolf Hess.

I mean, everyone.

This is- As well as forging handwriting and signatures, Kujau had kept his childhood passion going, pushing out a steady stream of forged paintings.

We had never before used the word homeland.

And when Rudolf Hess introduced Adolf Hitler in 1937 at the Nuremberg rally, in the big Nuremberg rally that Lenny Reifenstahl made a movie called The Triumph of the Will, when he introduced Hitler, he said, Danke, our Fuhrer, thank you to our Fuhrer, because Germany has now become a Heimat.

a homeland for Germans all over the world, alles über die ganze Welt.

And that word, Heimat, became the central focus of Hitler's propaganda going forward from that point.

Hitler also gathered around him, bit by bit, as his reputation as a speaker of the radical right increased, a group of acolytes, a group of disciples, who brought their own particular techniques and their own ideas, personalities and reputation.

Hitler's closest ally at the time was Rudolf Hess, who had been born on April 26, 1894, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Like Hitler, he had this extraordinary reaction at the end, you know, that how could we have lost and so on, who is there to blame? He drifted off into university life, but he was a frustrated, radical nationalist.

And when he met Hitler, he was absolutely transfixed by him.

Hitler was arrested, put on trial.

His trial began on February 26th, 1924, and ended on the 1st of April.

Other conspirators, such as Rudolf Hess, were also arrested and tried in court.

The whole episode seemed to be a complete failure on the part of Hitler and the National Socialist Party.

William, what are they talking about?

How long did you think we would permit you to keep our great Rudolf Hess in prison? Rudolf

Hess? What are you? Shut your mouth.

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