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Hess had been under the delusion that the Duke of Hamilton and other members
of the British establishment would be willing to discuss peace terms with
Germany, and that the common enemy was Stalin's Soviet Union.
The peace proposals were never taken seriously and he was later sentenced at
Nuremberg to life imprisonment for war crimes. For 20 years, Hess was the
lone inmate at Spandau prison. The prison was torn down after his death to
prevent it becoming a neo-Nazi rallying point.
However, numerous investigators have questioned this official version. One
theory is that the Rudolf Hess may have been kidnapped by Special Operation
Executive agents, taken to a secret location in Scotland, interrogated, and
may subsequently have been executed. A doppelganger, or double, may have
been planted by SOE in a bid to demoralise and confuse the Nazi leadership.
Dr Hugh Thomas, who looked after Prisoner No.7 in Spandau, has consistently
claimed he was not the real Hess.
The new research, however, adds a confusing twist to the doppelganger
theory. The authors claim that it was indeed the real Hess who landed in
Scotland, but he later died and was "replaced" by British intelligence with
a doppelganger.
It was essential to maintain the pretence that Hess was still alive, the
authors argue, because of fears that should the Nazis suspect he had been
ill-treated or even murdered this would have an adverse effect on the
treatment meted out to captured British officers.
British intelligence was also aware the Nazi leadership had been thrown into
confusion with Hess's defection and was keen to exploit it
It has never been satisfactorily explained, however, who this mysterious
"double" was, nor why the fiction had to be maintained.
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