registered and then compelled to accept German nationality and to remove to German territory (2917-PS). Hess also used Party channels in order to incite the German people to violations of the rules of war. Thus, he ordered that the population be instructed to seize Allied parachutists or to "liquidate them" (062-PS). Hess also issued instructions to enforce Hitler's orders prohibiting the reconstruction of the city of Warsaw or of any of Poland's destroyed industries (EC-411). On 10 May 1941, Hess flew to Scotland for the purpose of seeking an end to the war with England, and support for Germany's demands against Russia. Upon his arrival, he was incarcerated and thus forcibly eliminated from further participation in the crimes of the conspiracy (D-614). F. CONCLUSION. Of all the members of the Nazi conspiracy, Hess was closest to Hitler from the first. As Hitler's secretary and A. d. C., as his Deputy, and finally as his Second Successor Designate, Hess was at all times his direct representative in all Party matters. Thus, the conspiracy's most powerful instrument of political action rested in his hands. Hess used this power to penetrate and dominate the German government administration with National Socialist functionaries; to control legislation and education; and to persecute all independent groups, especially the churches and the Jews. Being responsible for the political direction and control of the German people, through the Party, Hess played a decisive role in preparing the nation for war. He furthered the secret rearmament of the Party's military formations; he signed the Conscription Law of 1935; he sat on the Reichs Defense Council, the inner Cabinet in which the heads of the conspiracy blue-printed the administrative, economic, and political preparation of their aggressive wars. Hess, above all, was responsible for the creation and direction of the Nazi fifth-column, in which foreign citizens of German extraction joined under the Nazi banner to weaken and undermine those countries which the Nazi conspirators had determined to subjugate. All through the years from 1920 to 1941 Hess remained the most faithful and relentless executor of Hitler's aims and designs. This complete devotion to the success of the conspiracy was climaxed by his flight to Scotland in an attempt to end the war with 69325547-91 England and to receive English support for Germany's demands against Russia, which he had helped to prepare. The share of Hess' participation in the Nazi conspiracy is as great as that of the Party which he directed. The Party's crimes are his. LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO RUDOLF HESS Document Description Vol. Page *784-PS *812-PS *837-PS *838-PS *840-PS 842-PS *1143-PS Letter from Rainer to Seyss- Letter from Hess' office signed 559 586 III 603 III 605 III 606 III 609 cerning organization of Air Force. III 806 1377-PS Decree establishing a Secret Cabi- 1393-PS *1395-PS 1416-PS *1417-PS *1417 **1654-PS Law on treacherous attacks against Law to insure the unity of Party Reich Citizen Law of 15 Septem- First regulation to the Reichs Citi- Law of 16 March 1935 reintroduc- *1774-PS Extracts from Organizational Law |