David Irving spoke on Rudolf Hess: His Life and Mysterious Death in the West End of London, January 12, 2013       Seventy friends packed into a familiar West End location in London to hear David Irving talk on the Rudolf Hess case. If any one man earned the Nobel Peace Prize, he said, it was Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess (right) who in May 1941 risked his life at the age of forty-seven to parachute into wartime Britain and speak with H M the King, in the hope of putting an end to the madness of war before the real slaughter began. He was "intercepted", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill boasted, and spent the next forty-seven years of his life in captivity, convicted at Nuremberg of "crimes against peace". Aged 93, Hess died a mysterious death by strangulation while under the sole supervision of a confrontational American Negro warder known only as "Jordan". Murder or suicide? A discussion followed the interval, and former Foreign Office official Hugo Haig-Thomas (below) gave a very cogent talk on the situation of the Four Powers in Berlin at the time of the Rudolf Hess case.