# Talk:Rudolf Hess

Why is Brinley Newton-John not mentioned? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:35, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

? He is not mentioned in the source books thatI used for the rewrite I did in 2013. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
Try this: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/newtonjohn-brinley-brin-18243 --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:08, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
It's already mentioned in Brinley Newton-John. What's the significance to Hess's life? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:35, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Reciprocality? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Brinley Newton-John perhaps accompanied Ivone Kirkpatrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivone_Kirkpatrick#Second_World_War to identify the German who had parachuted in and was yet to be found out about. Newton_John runs very close to the direct subject of Hess in a public television interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMShlHpI85k&t=678s Laurencebeck (talk) 06:41, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

The article currently states that Rudolf Hess used an English racial slur (the n-word) in his 20 April 1940 radio address for Hitler’s birthday.
This is incorrect and comes from a propagandistic English paraphrase, not the original German.

The original German text (Bundesarchiv NS 10/220) reads:“… die Engländer, die Neger und Inder gegen uns in den Kampf werfen möchten …”The German word “Neger” in 1940 meant “Negro(es)”, not the English n-word.
Authoritative translation standards (e.g., Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Vol. VIII, USGPO 1946) translate “Neger” consistently as “Negroes.”
Sources:

Bundesarchiv, NS 10/220 (German original speech)
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Vol. VIII, USGPO 1946 (Nuremberg translation conventions)
Duden: “Neger” (historical term corresponding to “Negro”)
Proposed correction:

Replace the inaccurate slur with:“… claimed the British wanted to throw Negroes and Indians into the fight against Germany (German: Neger und Inder).”This follows WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:V, and WP:UNDUE. Manteo2murphy (talk) 17:34, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Fixed. Thanks for the suggestion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:03, 22 November 2025 (UTC)