From Cliff Thies:

AP is reporting that, with the permission of the family, cemetery workers quietly exhumed the body of Rudolf Hess, once the #3 man in the Nazi hierarchy, cremated it, and scattered the ashes over an undisclosed lake, as the burial site had become a shrine to neo-Nazis.

Hess had apparently become mentally ill while in Hitler's inner circle and, delusional, set off to negotiate a peace between Germany and Great Britain. He was immediately arrested and spent time in the historic Tower of London before his trial at Nuremberg. At Nuremberg, he was found guilty of conspiracy to wage war (but not of war crimes or crimes against humanity) and was given a life sentence. He eventually died, at the age of 93, in Spandau Prison in Berlin (which itself was subsequently demolished so as not to become a neo-Nazi shrine).

How could such a horror come out of a cultured people like the Germans, we may never know. But, we will never forget.