Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Rudolph (Hess) n.

[rhy. sl.; ult. Nazi leader Rudolph Hess (1894–87); note ephemeral 1940s (US black) Rudolph Hess, to leave, to disappear, echoing the Nazi’s flight to Scotland during WWII]

a mess.

[UK]R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit.