Documents on the alleged "suicide" of Rudolf Hess Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, who flew to Scotland in May 1941 in a vain attempt to end the war, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg by the victorious Allies for crimes against the peace. He remained in jail in Spandau, Berlin, until August 1987 when he was found strangled in a prison outbuilding. The family commissioned an independent autopsy by the Munich professor Dr Spann, which provided evidence that Hess had been murdered. | WE DRAW attention to the excellent Website devoted to this mystery, with affidavits from Hess's devoted son Wolf Rudiger Hess, correspondence between Hess's lawyer Dr Alfred Seidl and British officials, and other official records. The above autopsy photograph, showing the horizontal scar on the dead man's neck, is from Professor Spann's papers, published on that Website. (Had Hess hanged himself as officially claimed, the scar would be very oblique, not horizontal).Mirrors: |
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David Irving wrote a book, Hess: The Missing Years (Macmillan, London, 1987), now out of print. The Berlin prosecutor Dr Mehlis visited him together with the Scotland Yard official investigating the death. The British Foreign office however ordered a halt to further investigations.
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