Robert H. Jackson on Rudolf Hess

“A number three man who was merely an innocent middleman transmitting Hitler's orders without even reading them, like a postman or delivery boy.”

“The zealot Hess, before succumbing to wanderlust [flew to Scotland in May 1941], was the engineer tending the party machinery, passing orders and propaganda down to the Leadership Corps, supervising every aspect of party activities, and maintaining the organization as a loyal and ready instrument of power.”