Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess and President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring at a Nazi rally, Germany, 1935

During a Nazi Party rally, crowds of German Army soldiers are shown giving the Nazi salute. President of the Reichstag and chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) Hermann Göring is shown in attendance. Followed by Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party Rudolf Hess stepping up to a podium, Germany, Nuremberg, 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. Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which governed Germany from 1933 to 1945. A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, Göring was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite.