Buchanan Castle
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Buchanan Castle is a ruined castle in Stirlingshire, Scotland, located 1 mile west of the village of Drymen. The house was commissioned by the 4th Duke of Montrose and built in 1852–1858 as a home for
Buchanan Castle in the 1890s
Buchanan Castle in 2006
Buchanan Place, Stirlingshire, 1822
Facade of the ruins of Buchanan Castle in 2012.
Rudolf Hess
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Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held that position until 194
Buchanan Castle
…by the outbreak of the Second World War, during which the house was requisitioned. It was used as a hospital during the war, with patients including Rudolf Hess, who was brought here after his flight to Scotland in 1941. After the war the building served briefly as the Army School of Education. The roof was…
Hess in 1935
Hess (right) with his geopolitics professor, Karl Haushofer, c. 1920
Hitler, Emil Maurice, Hermann Kriebel, Hess, and Friedrich Weber at Landsberg Prison in 1924
Hess (2nd from left, behind Heinrich Himmler) was an early supporter of the Nazi Party.