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How did Rudolf Hess die?

  • In battle

  • Old age

  • Death penalty

  • Suicide in prison

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Rudolf Hess, a Nazi official who was a close associate of Adolf Hitler, committed suicide in prison in 1987. He had been imprisoned at Spandau Prison in Berlin since 1946, after being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. Hess had been suffering from depression and dementia for many years, and he took his own life by hanging himself with a bed sheet.
Hess-tory in the Making: Unveiling the Enigmatic Rudolf Hess

Hess-tory in the Making: Unveiling the Enigmatic Rudolf Hess

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