The news about the Hess journey to England (Image I) The mystery of Rudolf Hess One of the biggest mysteries in history is the man named Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (1894-1987). The reason why this man who was the deputy director of the Nazi party flew to Great Britain in 1940? And why that man kept imprisoned in Spandau Prison as its only prisoner when he suffers a life sentence from the Nürnberg trial? Why Allies were not hanging that man? Did he offer some kind of contract to Churchill, what made British and the rest of the Allies convict that man to imprison? Maybe the defection in the early years of the Second World War caused the British and other Allies to save his life. Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, which meant that he was a British citizen. Egypt was a British protectorate during that time. The thing that makes Rudolf Hess a really interesting person that he has the same family name as the famous chemist Germain Henri Hess (1802-1850), who invented Hess's law. So was ...