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On this day, August 17th, 1987, Rudolf Hess, deputy to the Führer Adolf Hitler, was cruelly murdered in his prison cell in Spandau; he was 93 years old. Often forgotten as one of the major leaders of the Reich prior to his flight to Scotland in 1941 in order to try and stop the Second World War, Rudolf Hess was one of the earliest members of the NSDAP (joining on July 1st, 1920), and was a loyal comrade to Adolf Hitler. While imprisoned in Spandau Prison, Hess maintained his loyalty to Hitler and National Socialism, never once repenting for his involvement in the Third Reich and the role he played in it for years; not once did he disavow his Führer, even when surrounded by a world of enemies. On August 17th, Hess was found hanging in his cell, and although this was framed as a suicide, independent investigators and his own family have argued that Hess was not suicidal, and that his hanging was "unconventional" for a frail older man.