Ahhem. In 1941 a man who called himself Rudolf Heß, Hitler's appointed successor, was parachuted above Scotland with a self-proclaimed mission to conclude a separate peace with Great Britain. He was detained by Churchill and held incommunicado until 1946, when he was indicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Neuremberg. During the proceedings he seemed very absent-minded and claimed to suffer from extensive amnesia. He was detained in Spandau prison in Berlin.Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
On August 17, 1987, Heß interrupted his daily walk in the prison garden to enter a shed where he allegedly hung himself with an electrical chord. This official explanation of his death has never been completely accepted, and not just by neo-nazis.
His British Army doctor during 1972-73, Hugh Thomes, wrote a book in 1979 claiming that the imprisoned man was not Hitler's second-in-command, but a substitute who had been sent to Britain as a spy under cover of the real Heß' peaceful intentions. The real Heß meanwhile, according to Thomas, had been dead for decades, having been killed and dumped at sea on the order of some comrades in the nazi inner-circle weary of his 'treason'.
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