The Moment Rudolf Hess Became a True Believer |

[00:00:00]The humiliation was total. He was furious. He was searching and in 1920 he found exactly what he was looking for.

[00:00:09]His name was Adolf Hitler. Hess heard Hitler speak at a rally in Munich and was by his own account transfixed. This wasn't just politics. [music] This was something closer to religious conversion. He joined the Nazi Party within the year becoming member number 16, not a follower. A founding disciple.

[00:00:31]When the Beer Hall Putsch failed [music] in 1923 and Hitler was arrested, Hess didn't run. He surrendered [music] voluntarily and served time in Landsberg prison alongside his leader. It was there in that cell that Hess helped [music] Hitler organize and dictate the manuscript that would become Mein Kampf.

[00:00:53]He wasn't just following [music] Hitler.

[00:00:55]He was helping to build the ideology that would consume a continent. [music]