Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess delivering a speech at a Nazi rally, Germany, 1935

At a Nazi rally, Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess is shown delivering a speech at a podium and giving a Nazi salute, Nuremberg, Germany, 1935. Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War.