Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190)
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Barbary pirate (died in 1546)
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But Barbarossa's intent was far more Hitlerian. "The war against Russia," he ordered, "cannot be fought in a knightly fashion.
Did Hess give his interrogators details of Operation Barbarossa, the forthcoming German attack on the Soviet Union, of which Churchill already had forewarning through decrypts of the German Enigma ciphers?