He was Hitler's deputy. Hitler declared him his successor in 1939. Hitler later stripped him of his powers by acts he regarded as treason.
Hermann was Indicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, during the trials he denied being involved in the wicked activities of the Nazis. The tribunal still sentenced him to be hanged as a war criminal. He begged to be shot Instead but was refused but the night to his execution he took cyanide in his cell.
