Hess, Rudolph
1894-1987 93 years
1894-1987 93 years
German deputy fuhrer to Adolph Hitler in WWII
born Alexandria, Egypt
father: Lutheran Christian, import/export business
mother: Greek, of the Georgiadis family.
eldest of 4 children
family moved to Germany
became close to Hilter's group in '20s.
helped transcribe and edit Hitler's book Mein Kampf.
flew unauthorized plane flight to Britain in 1941,
supposedly to talk to the British leaders about uniting with
Germany--plane crashed in Scotland, Hess arrested, and
spent rest of the war in British prison.
tried post-war at Nuremburg Trials, sentenced to life in
prison at Spandau Prison.
died, supposedly by suicide, in old age at the prison.
born Alexandria, Egypt
father: Lutheran Christian, import/export business
mother: Greek, of the Georgiadis family.
eldest of 4 children
family moved to Germany
became close to Hilter's group in '20s.
helped transcribe and edit Hitler's book Mein Kampf.
flew unauthorized plane flight to Britain in 1941,
supposedly to talk to the British leaders about uniting with
Germany--plane crashed in Scotland, Hess arrested, and
spent rest of the war in British prison.
tried post-war at Nuremburg Trials, sentenced to life in
prison at Spandau Prison.
died, supposedly by suicide, in old age at the prison.
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| I know Rudolph Hess is certainly one of the greatest criminals. And his crime becomes even a millionfold bigger, because in the Nuremberg trial with the remaining companions of Adolf Hitler – who killed almost eight million people in the second world war – he said in front of the court, "I don't repent anything!" Not only that, he also said, "And if I could start from the very beginning, I would do the same thing again." It is very natural to think this man is not worthy of forgiveness; that will be the common understanding. Everybody will agree with you. But I cannot agree with you. It does not matter what Rudolf Hess has done, what he is saying. What matters is that you are capable of forgiving even him. That will raise your consciousness to the ultimate heights. If you cannot forgive Rudolf Hess you will remain just an ordinary human being, with all kinds of judgments of worthiness, of unworthiness. But basically you cannot forgive him because your forgiveness is not big enough... --Osho The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here, ch. 24 |