WW II

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erms ranging from ten years to life, and three, including the German politician and diplomat Franz von Papen and the president of the German Central Bank Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, were set free. Those who had been condemned to death were executed on October 16, 1946.
4. Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess was born in Egypt in 1894. He was the son of a German merchant. Hess joined the Nazi party in 1920 and participated in the Nazi attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government in 1923. He was imprisoned with Hitler at Landsberg, becoming the Nazi leader's private secretary. After Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, he selected Hess to be his deputy in charge of the party organization. In 1934 he was promoted to the rank of minister and appointed a member of Hitler's cabinet. Hitler named him third deputy of the Reich in 1939, placing him directly below the Nazi leader Hermann Göring in line of succession. In 1941 he was captured and sentenced to life in prison. He committed suicide...