HESS WAS IMPRISONED FOR LIFE

HESS WAS IMPRISONED FOR LIFE

Rudolf Hess was interred by the British in 1941 after his failed attempt to propose peace between the Anglo Saxons and the Germans. Many of us would consider this a heroic objective that if successful would have saved millions of British and German lives.

Why then was Hess convicted at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial by a court made up of Americans and Russians in addition to the British? Hess was never a participant in the war against the United States and Russia because he had departed from Germany before either of those countries were involved in the conflict. His trial should have been conducted only under British jurisdiction and upon conviction he may have served 20 or 25 years imprisonment before he was released, as were some of the others convicted. The Russians, to whom he had done nothing, wanted him to be executed but were forced to settle for his imprisonment until he died.

Why were the Slavic Bolsheviks allowed a voice in the fate of an Aryan who was never at war with them? More on Hess will follow in a subsequent editorial. 

Fred Barrett Woodward

Editor