What happened to Rudolf Hoess after the war?

Answer 1

Answer 1:Probably murdered by the Russians. He was the last war criminal imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Berlin, and after 1965, for about a quarter of a century, he was the only prisoner in the entire prison. The Russians would not agree to his release. Each of the four powers took turns guarding the prison, for a month at a time. The Russians, French, British and Americans. As the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1989, Hess supposedly "hanged himself" during the Russian month on duty.

I had a cousin in the Berlin Brigade (US) in the 70s who several times was a guard at Spandau. The guards were not supposed to speak to Hess or interact with him in any way. But he'd try to talk to them, try to bum a cigarette. If you talked to him, or gave him a cigarette, he'd rat you out and get you in trouble.

All the foregoing is if you believe the man in Spandau Prison was actually Hess. Chances are he was not. During the Nuremberg trials this prisoner acted "crazy" and had little meaningful interaction with the other Nazi defendants, who were men he had known well, supposedly, before flying off to England on his crackpot self-appointed mission in 1940. But if he was merely a lookalike, he would not have known his codefendants, and would have wanted to avoid trying to have conversations with them, when he would have been at a loss when they brought up the old days. Similarly, he refused to have any visits from his family for a year and a half after the war was over, until there had been time for letters to be exchanged. All the information he seemed to have about his own "family" was what they had written him post-war, and he would cleverly parrot this back to them in his own letters. The elapsed time of "Hess"s flight to Scotland was an hour and a half longer than an ME 110 could remain in the air. But the most conclusive evidence was presented by a British physician, who as a British Army doctor had occasion to treat Hess during a month while the British were guarding the prison. The real Hess was shot through the chest leading an attack in WWI. When a person is shot with a modern, high powered weapon, the track of the bullet through the body is visible for the rest of their life on X-rays, as a "soft tissue displacement track". This is true even if the scars of the entry and exit wounds should somehow miraculously disappear. The prisoner in Spandau had neither entry nor exit wound scars, and no soft-tissue displacement track, which is impossible, if he had been shot through the chest. It was a year or more before this doctor had occasion to see Hess again, and he tried to bring up the subject. The man appeared terrified, and would only say "Too late! Too Late!". Whatever hold whoever (perhaps unrepentant Nazis) might have continued to have over him, to keep him in his lonely imprisonment for so long, went to his grave with him, after the Russians were his last guards.

Answer 2:Since Rudolf Hess's death is controversial I am giving you this answer:

From Wikipedia under the heading of Rudolf Hess:

"On 17 August 1987, Hess died while under Four Power imprisonment at Spandau Prison in West Berlin, at the age of 93. He was found in a summer house in a garden located in a secure area of the prison with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. His death was ruled a suicide by self-asphyxiation. He was buried at Wunsiedel in a Hess family grave plot sold to his family by the Vetters of the Sechsämtertropfen bitter liquor company of Wunsiedel. Spandau Prison was subsequently demolished to prevent it from becoming a shrine."

Sources:

"Hess Dies at 93; Hitler's Last Lieutenant". New York Times. 23 August 1987.

"Germany The Inmate of Spandau's Last Wish". Time (magazine). 31 August 1987

Answer 2

Don't confuse Rudolf Hess (deputy Fuehrer) with Rudolf Hoess (commandant of Auschwitz). Hoess was caught in March 1945, was called as a witness at the Nuremberg Tribunal and gave evidence that made the Nazi leadership wince. He was then handed over to the Poles, tried, sentenced to death and hanged in April 1947 just inside Auschwitz camp facing the main gate. The gallows have been preserved.

Answer 3

He was tried and hanged for murdering millions of people.

Answer 4

Caught, tried and hanged.