Top Hitler Deputy’s Bones Dug Up, Burned After Grave Had Become a Pilgrimage Site for Neo-Nazis
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The bones of Rudolf Hess, right in this 1938 photo, were exhumed and destroyed Wednesday after his grave had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. (AP File Photo)
BERLIN (The Blaze/AP) — The bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town that had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.
Before dawn Wednesday, workers exhumed Hess’s bones from the grave in the Wunsiedel cemetery, then cremated the remains and scattered them secretly in a lake, whose name and location are not being divulged, cemetery administrator Andreas Fabel told The Associated Press.
“The grave is now empty,” he said on Thursday. “The bones are gone.”
Hess was captured in 1941 when he parachuted into Scotland on a mission to negotiate peace between Britain and Germany.
The attempt was denounced by Hitler, and Hess later told British authorities that the Nazi leader knew nothing of it.
In recent years, Hess has come to be seen as a martyr by the far-right and thousands of neo-Nazis have used the anniversary of his death as an occasion hold large rallies, with Wunsiedel — near the Czech border — often a focal point.
Most such rallies have been banned since stricter laws were implemented in 2005, but the grave continued to attract far-right extremists to the town.
With the lease on the burial plot coming up for renewal in October, Hess’s relatives and Lutheran church authorities in the town decided it was best to remove the remains, Fabel said.
“Both sides were in favor of it,” he said.
Hess was an early confidant of Hitler’s, and, while Hitler was imprisoned in the 1920s, the Nazi leader dictated much of his infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf,“ or ”My Struggle,” to him.
Hess eventually rose to the position of deputy Nazi party leader, but by 1941 his influence with Hitler was waning. His flight to Scotland is widely seen by historians as an attempt to restore his importance.
Instead, Hitler said he was delusional and the British treated him as a prisoner of war.
At the Nuremberg trials after the war Hess was found innocent of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against peace and conspiracy to commit crimes against peace.
Hess was the last inmate at Spandau Prison in then-West Berlin when he died on Aug. 17, 1987 at age 93. Allied authorities said he hanged himself with an electrical cord. The prison was demolished shortly afterward and the rubble secretly disposed of.
Hess was buried in his family plot in Wunsiedel, at his request.



















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Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 10:24am@ss794
Report Post »Not even close it’s actually (left to right):
Anarchists Communists Far Left Liberal Center Libertarian Conservative Facists
this is not a matter of opinion that’s the way it works. How you define an individual’s beliefs and where they fit into the spectrum is a subjective assessment, but don’t try to invent your own political world system.
jgasden
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:27pmIt is just your OPINION, Fascists are liberals period.
Report Post »jgasden
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:28pmAnarchists is wrong to because in is no government, you are not very good at this are you?
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 3:36pm“In recent years, Hess has come to be seen as a martyr by the far-right and thousands of neo-Nazis have used the anniversary of his death as an occasion hold large rallies,”
The Nazi Party had nothing to do with “the far-right”, except in the minds of the revisionist Left. National Socialism is demonstrably the Left’s tarbaby, but they’ve spent the last 50+ years trying get as far away from their monster as possible with marginal success. The quoted portion of the article shows just how simplistic and sycophantic journalists have become.
Unfortunately for the Left, say‘in it don’t make it so.
Report Post »Greg8812
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 3:41pmUnfortunately your system suggests that only Big gov’t is on either ends of the spectrum. Using rational and critical thinking one side must be Big gov’t/Absolute control/no Freedom, the other must be absolutely no gov’t. From Big gov’t/Absolute control/no Freedom to No Gov’t max Freedom.
Report Post »I Autocracy
I Theocracy
I Monarchy
I Communism
I Fascism
I Socialism
I Progressivism
I Liberalism
I Democracy( Mob rule, Majority rule)
I Centrism
I Neo Conservatism
I Conservatism
I Republicanism
I Libertarianism
I Anarchism
Haystack
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 10:23amYes Hitler and Rudolf Hess were very murderous and vile persons. But everyone seems to forget about Vladimir Illich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. the two who arguably murdered more people than hitler and hess. Maybe these two guys should be dug up, cremated and their ashes dumped in the ocean. The left in this country would go crazy. “Semper Vigilantis!!”
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:00amDon’t forget Chairmen Mao who murdered 30-60 million depending on who you ask.
Report Post »pennswoods
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 3:52pmYes, because of Marxist class hatred, it’s hatred of religion, it’s hatred and paranoia of anyone who dared disgree in any way with the life of slavery and poverty in their Soviet paradise millions were arrested and sent to forced labor camps in closed box cars in the USSR. If these people were not executed by a bullt to the back of their skull after their “interrogations or ”trials” they were sent north to the Soviet Artic to labor camps like Solovki or East via closed box car trains to the numerous labor camps in Siberia to be worked to death. All this happened twenty and years or less before the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews in Europe from 1939 to 1945 when millions of Jews were also stuffed into box cars and sent East to their extermination, because of Nazi race hatred, to be killed by gas at those camps we all know so well about in Poland. When will Hollywood make a movie about those tens of millions who went in filthy box cars to their deaths in the Lenin and Stalin‘s Soviet Gulag after 1917 until Stalin’s death in the early 1950′s? Why is it that the greatest mass murder stastistics of human beings in the last century or ever was by the Communists, perhaps as many as 150 million human beings died because of Marxist ideology. Yet this enormous killing of human beings is totally ignored in our schools, universities and by our cable history channels and also by Hollywood. It’s a shame. No. it’s an outrage and a disgrace.
Report Post »ss794
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:40amI’m sorry, I stated the wrong author of Auschwitz, a New History. The author is Laurence Rees
Report Post »ss794
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:39am@Sound the Trumpet in Zion – They did persecute Christians. They had catholic priests and jehovah witness’s in Auschwitz, not to mention college students as well. The Hitler Youth Handbook condemned Christians because Christians believed all people were equal in the site of God. Read Auschwitz, a New History by Rod Gragg.
Report Post »ss794
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:42amI’m sorry, I stated the wrong author of Auschwitz, a New History. The author is Laurence Rees
Report Post »Jack2011
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:39amThe article says “In recent years, Hess has come to be seen as a martyr by the far-right”
The Nazis were called the the “National SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY”. Socialist and unions are related to the FAR LEFT.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:51amThe far right are the ones who idolize Hess. That’s a fact. The Nazis were not Socialist (it was a name, not a creed) that’s a fact. You are obviously right wing and feel offended at the behaviour of some of your fellow travellers. Man up – be proud and accept Hitler as your soulmate.
Report Post »steve-o-con
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 7:24am@Jack of Hearts
Report Post »Yeah, our party is the “National Socialist” Party but we’re not really socialists; its just a name. That‘s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. You’re pretty naive and easily duped I would imagine.
Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:10amNope, just a historian.
Report Post »ss794
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:50amFacists are to the right of Communist, but the political scale looks like this from left to right:
Report Post »Communists Facists (Nazis) Far Left Liberal Center Conservative Libertarian Anarchists
Bernard
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:38pmThird comment:
Report Post »That photograph shows a lot. I am tickled to see Nazi party members wearing the “Jodhpur pants” created by the Hindu Maharajah of Jodhpur in the late 19th century, which the British royalty adopted and soon spread as the uniform of all European leader and military leaders world around.
Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 3:20amYou are indeed easily amused – as well as wrong. What has your obtuse comment got to do with Neo Nazis, and how many right wingers actually wear jodhpurs today??
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:35pmSlayer:
Report Post »What you say is right but the Communists have killed more people on earth than the Nazi party or the Socialist run governments ever have. Check out the biography of Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
Bernard
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:32pmGoing back in history in the island of Sri Lanka when the Dutch conquered and wanted Buddhism elemenated from that land they went to the Dalada Maligawa where the tooth of the Buddha was kept. A Bikku (Buddhist priest) who being warned replaced that tooth with a another tooth. The Dutch then took the false tooth, crushed it into powder and tossed it into the river. After they were replaced by the English the Buddha’s tooth was returned to that temple.
Report Post »The reason for that story is that anyone could secretly put someone else’s bones that date around that time and claim that a “miracle” had happened and the bones have come back to it’s resting place. Believe me the neo Nazi’s will take this propaganda and run with it claiming a “new day is born” heralding this “miracle” as a sign of a “new day” and people will buy it hook, line and sinker, and that organization will grow.
One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:26pmPerhaps they can rebury then in Haight Ashbury so all the commies and Gay Gestapo out there can worship in between rim jobs…
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:07pmNazis=Liberals.
Report Post »Both groups look up to their leader with cult-like affection.
Both are hideously corrupt.
Both start multiple wars.
Both are Socialists.
Both demand everyone live according to their rules governing even the smallest details of their lives while the leaders ignore their own laws and live like kings.
Both eradicate God.
Both eradicate religion.
Both persecute Catholics, Jews, blacks.
Both look to form a more perfect race of people.
Both believe in the absolute power of government.
Both have proven to be absolute failures.
dealer@678
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:22pmDoesnt much matter. The guys in hell
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:40pm@Slayer
Report Post »“Both persecute Catholics, Jews, blacks”
Well at least according to you they don’t persecute Christians.
SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:16pmNow, if they would just burn the bones of Tojo… His grand daughter pushes a revisionist history and cult in which Tojo was a great hero, and those grave has become a piligrimmage site for those that believe that the US started WW2.
Tojo’s bones would better off destroyed and hidden in a place where no one can find them.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:41pmAlright, so ya, Tojo was actually cremated, but his ashes were spread among three different shrines? At least one of those is a pilgrimage site, with a fancy tomb/grave.
Report Post »Disnylv
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:24amHum wow a lot of similarities. I wonder if Obamanation fits that, let me see, Nazis=Liberals.
Report Post »Both groups look up to their leader with cult-like affection.
Both are hideously corrupt.
Both start multiple wars.
Both are Socialists.
Both demand everyone live according to their rules governing even the smallest details of their lives while the leaders ignore their own laws and live like kings.
Both eradicate God.
Both eradicate religion.
Both persecute Catholics, Jews, blacks.
Both look to form a more perfect race of people.
Both believe in the absolute power of government.
Both have proven to be absolute failures.
Well maybe not so much Blacks, hard to tell on this one. Certain ones anyhow, Herman Cain, Allen West, Martin Luther King Jr, OH I see that ones that speak out again all of these types of behavior Yuo Obama to a tee.
Cesium
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:17pmHitler was a christian and promoted his faith… Christianity was never good for the Jewish people! Christianity was built on anti-semetic undertones.. Jesus never instructed his followers to start a new religion and create a new bible, and ignore many of the commandments (way beyond 10) in the Torah. Anything jesus ever said in the bible was created over 40 years after his death by paul and his ilk. Christianity and islam was death to my people and thankfully the greatest founders of the United States were deists and not Jesus worshipers… We may be a nation of christians, but we are not a christian nation. Hitler was a Christian
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:22pm“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.” -Adolf Hitler
Report Post »NSWPP
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:05pmhttp://www.nsm88.org/25points/25pointsengl.html
13.We demand economic reform suitable to our national requirements;
The prohibition of pro-marxist unions and their supplantation with National Socialist trade unions;
The passing of a law instituting profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises;
The creation of a livable wage;
The restructuring of social security and welfare to include drug testing for welfare recipients;
The immediate discontinuation of all taxes on things of life’s necessity, such as food, clothing, shelter, medicine etc.:
The replacement of the current tax system with a flat-rate tax based on income.
We demand the treasonable system of health care be completely revolutionized.
We demand an end to the status quo in which people die or rot away from lack of proper treatment due to the failure of their medical coverage, Health Maintenance Organization, or insurance policy.
We further demand the extensive development of insurance for old age and that prescription drugs be made both affordable and accessible.
Report Post »NSWPP
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:05pmPoor Rudolf Hess.May the gods grant him a table in Valhalla. Imprisoned on a quest for peace, and murdered by Communists when the English got tired of him.
Corrections: there is no such thing as “neo-Nazi.“ There were no such things as ”Nazis.“ The correct term is ”National Socialist.” The socio-political movement is “National Socialism,” a movement originating as an antidote to international Marxist (jewish) socialism. The White Man must stop fearing the word “socialism.” This is a socialism that frees you from the slavery of gold and the jew banker and yes, the jew doctor. National Socialism advances on the US Constitution and says Yes, you DO have a right to a doctor’s attention, as much as you and your child have a right to an education. And those rights are guaranteed as White Man’s rights, not the warped perversion the jew allows you to have, twisted by his lust for wealth and control. Can’t you see that they have done with medicine what they have done to schools? Control control control! You get sick and a doctor gets rich. Your children get stupid and a union goon gets rich. Do you really doubt this? Really?
White People Awake!
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:16pmYou are a sick person…
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 11:22pmhe’s in hell, along with hitler..where they belong.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:01amYour brain is thoroughly washed,although Hess tried to broker peace he was part of a genocidal regime
Report Post »which you seem to miss & believe will rise again,but real Americans, the ones who know our rights come from God and not man will finish the job our grandfathers started in ww ll.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:40amA table in Valhalla? After he betrayed the Fuehrer? What kind of National Socialist says a thing like that?
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:57pmThere is simply no end to the proliferation of idiots in the world. It’s a shame that the imbeciles have the ability to spawn. Unfortunately they do it like rats.
Report Post »Johann
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:45pmIt is very apparent how weak and effete Western democracy is. It fears a man who died twenty five years ago and has had his grave dug up and his remains desecrated because of their fear of their deteriorating culture and social order. Hess lived his last forty years in confinement and premature senility. Spandau prison was kept open at tremendous cost just to incarcerate one old man who had not been found worthy of the death penalty in 1945. How scary this old man was to the degenerates who now control the new world order and have brought his form of socialism to fruition.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:10pmJOHANN:
I’ve read the history on Hess and have come to the conclusion that he was trying to stop Hitler by flying to Scotland and meeting with Joe Kennedy to give vital military information. (I‘m sorry I am unable to cite the histories I read since my study was done in the early ’80′s). I DO NOT condone anything Hess, Hitler, et.al. did, but I do find it sad that a sad and deranged old dead man’s remains had to be dug up and destroyed because a bunch of idiot Neo-Nazi‘s we’re flocking to his grave. I’ll always believe Hess tried to aide the Allied Forces.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:43pmThis should have been done to the remains of Hess just after his own death in prison; the simple fact is that the bodies of those convicted and executed after Nazi Germany fell — the leaders and the true war criminals that had been caught, precisily for this reason. The leaders of the allies in the time did know that a day may come when there would be those delusional and misguided humans who would come to see these monsters as martyrs and heros of humanity.
So their bodies were cremated and the ashed reputedly dumped either among the waters of the Rhine, or more likely into the oceans — depending on which story you wish to believe.
This is one of the other reasons why OBL’s body was sent to the deep six after his death; to make sure no one would turn his grave into another shrine for the forces of darkness and death.
Report Post »SquirrelNYC
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:48pmIt’s unfortunate that his ashes were scattered on a lake. If only the victims of the Holocaust got treatment as humane. Hess’ vile remains should have been treated less delicately, like letting an animal “pay its respects,” cleaning them up, and throwing them amongst the filthiest garbage out there. Nazis were and are no more than pieces of vile filth.
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:58pmyep pee on it with gasoline and have a WEENIE roast in his honor. will bring the bacon
Report Post »cadmstr01
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:54pmDid Sam and Dean Winchester dig up the bones and burn them?
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:46pmGood riddance. The only remains of the Nazi regime that needs to survive posterity is the historic accounts of their evil as an example of how NOT to conduct human affairs.
Report Post »the wireworker
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:44pmhitler + evolution = holocaust
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:36pmHitler wanted national health, to brain-wash the children, have his own civilian army, loved communism, was a liar, control of the schools, even what we eat and read. Some swear he was a bi-sexual and believed he was at times actually placed here by God. Hmmmmm where have I seen that movie before!!!
Report Post »mrdon2012
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:49pmuh … sounds like someone … Yes I can, Yes I can … uh, Hope and Change …
Report Post »dupaws
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:05pmLets just say it, the commanality betweem Hitler at his start, and Obuma at his are spooky to say the lest. Makes one wounder.
Report Post »PAPAROACH
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:16pmA cold chill just ran down my spine.
Report Post »SouthSideLib
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:38pmHitler was well know known for hating communism. You should probably check your facts before posting.
Report Post »Disnylv
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:30amSounds vaguly familiar, let me think, control where you work, what pay you get, what and where you eat, if your children are fat or not, your money, your life, your thoughts, WE HAVE A WINNER< OBAMA
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 5:25am@ South Side Lib
Hitler hated the existing institution of the Communists, not the principle thereof. Ergo, he hated Soviet Russia, not the concept of Socialism, of which the Nazi Party = National Socialist Worker’s Party in common parlance.
National Socialism is simply Communism with a different governing structure and a different operational dynamic on how it controls the nation’s industry. In all other respects, they are just as brainwashed and corrupt as the other.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:33pm” Hess has come to be seen as a martyr by the far-right ”
Ummmmm, Nazi’s are not far right, they were socialists. That would make them far LEFT.
Report Post »mrdon2012
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:47pmthey are about as far right as Obama …
Report Post »oopss
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:43pmFor People who need to know, the far right in Germany is the same as the far Left in the USA !!
FACT:
“The report also concluded that the number of neo-Nazis rose by 400 compared to the previous year to 4,800. However the total number of right-wing extremists in Germany — a category which includes members of far-right parties and right-wing skinheads as well as neo-Nazis — dropped slightly from 31,000 in 2007 to 30,000 in 2008.”
QUOTE FROM: Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links !!!
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 6:32amWhat color is the moon on your planet where black is white and white is black? Facists are right wing – that’s what the word means. Please buy a dictionary and look up the long words and stop this mindless idea of trying to say that everyone who was evil was a socialist. I suppose Attila the Hun and Ghengis Khan were left wing in your parallel universe? Franco, Mussolini, Hitler were RIGHT WING. There, now you made me shout.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:43amJack of Hearts:
“Please buy a dictionary and look up the long words and stop this mindless idea of trying to say that everyone who was evil was a socialist.”
You should have added: “And stop the mindless assumption that everyone who calls himself socialist is one.”
The Nazis did of course preach the “socialism of fools,” namely anti-Semitism.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 11:44amIf Hitler had been a socialist, he would have confiscated all profit-making private property, but he did no such thing. You could look it up.
Report Post »NotFooled
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:19pmMaybe Soros will order the Whitehouse build a tomb for this Nazi right next to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Liberals would love it. Finally a memorial for them. Ahmadinejad will cut the yellow ribbon. Evil like that deserves no honorable burial.
Report Post »GiGi80
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:42pmWhy would Soros — a Jewish Holocaust survivor — want to honor Rudolph Hess?
Report Post »GiGi80
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:44pmWhy would Soros — a Holocaust survivor — want to honor Rudolph Hess?
Report Post »I Stand With Israel
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:18pmNow if those nuts will follow Hess’s ashes and jump into the lake and not come up.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:13pmNext stop…..Mohammeds grave site!
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:26pmAwwwwwwwww, do we have to dig em’ up? Can’t we just pee on it? lol
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:09pmThey’ll never give up. Nazi fervor cannot be stilled by a cremation.
Report Post »NSWPP
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:09pmYou are correct sir. The Dream Has Just Begun!!!!
Hail the Leader!
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