Seattle Post Intellegencer Vintage 1941 Newspaper. May 14 1941. Churchill To Quiz Hess. 11x17 inches Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (He in German; 26 April 1894 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Fhrer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide in 1987. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.