Hess & Hoess
[ Edit Delete #184029 ] 2007.10.07 22:00

Rudolf Hess and Rudolf Hoess... Rudolf Hess was a deputy Fuehrer and fled to Scotland before Barbarossa to negotiate peace with Britain. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and he kept on custody from 1941 to 1987. He was not released even in a short time. It was natural if we thought about the position of Russia, Russia was about to face hypothetical German-Britain Allied. Rudolf Hoess was a commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. He was sentenced to death in Poland, 1947.In Japan's phonetic system, two names are completely the same, but the roles in war was very different. We were told not to confuse when we first encounter two names in our school. I took him for another one when I saw first in more than twenty years in a documentary program. I had been not always aware of those two differences.I must add that presumably Rudolf Hess was not to be regarded as a war criminal. His times overwhelmed a fate of one man. It was his tragedy.