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Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was deputy leader of the German Nazi Party and a key figure in the fascist regime of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) until his bizarre decision in 1941 to fly to Scotland. Hess believed he could persuade Britain to withdraw...

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was an Austrian composer of Romantic music best known for his songs, symphonies, piano music, and chamber music. Schubert's career lasted only 15 years, but he was a prolific composer. Neither a conductor or virtuoso...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer of Romantic Music. Liszt first gained international fame as a piano virtuoso, an activity in which he was a pioneer, and then as a composer of piano works and symphonic poems, a form he created...

A c. 1924 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) on the far left and Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), second from right. (Imperial War Museums)

The Nuremberg trials (1945-6), held in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany, were a series of trials involving the senior surviving Nazis to hold them accountable for waging war and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Second...

A 1933 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), deputy leader of the German Nazi Party. (German Federal Archives)

A 1945 photograph of Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), once deputy leader of the German Nazi Party, in his prison cell during the Nuremberg Trials. (U.S. Army Signal Corps - Library of Congress)

The Austrians charge against a line of French soldiers under General Claude Victor-Perrin at the Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800), by Benoit Perrier. Marengo Museum.

A photograph of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III (r. 1900-46), taken between 1924 and 1934.

Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah (1949). The ancient Israelite judge Samson was betrayed by his lover Delilah, who was sent to him by his enemies, the Philistines. ©Paramount Pictures Studios.