Opening The Coffin Of The Deputy Fuhrer - Digging Up Rudolf Hess

During World War 2, Rudolf Hess was considered Hitler's number 2 and Deputy Fuhrer. But he would fall from grace shockingly and spectacularly after a flight to Scotland that was intended to bring peace talks to Britain. But Hess was a strange individual, and was one inside of Hitler's inner circle that attracted criticism from others such as Hermann Goring, but he was brought to trial and faced potential execution at the Nuremberg trials at the end of the war. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment, and he is considered the 'Last Nazi,' who was held inside of Spandau Prison where he died at the age of 93.

However following his death, his body was exhumed from his grave a number of times. In 2011 he was exhumed for a final time due to activities and behaviour which was occurring around his grave. His gravestone was broken up, and his remains were cremated and then given to his family who scattered them.

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[RandySchaff-mugq]

He was right about that! Two front war was a disaster for Germany.
Hess carried his secrets to the grave but they will come out someday they always do.
They are buried somewhere in the British archives.

[georgemvkeever]

Hess knew things that the allies didn't want to get out

[samuelthomson]

My grandfather was the personal prison guard to Rudolf Hess in Spandau after the war. He said he was a quiet man who liked to rectie poetry whilst sitting in the garden's trees

[BrianHayter-zluc]

He didn, t crash land, he bailed out. Big difference

[CombatChicken]

Crazy though how he was just cremated without the knowledge of the family. He obviously isn't a saint but still.

[Bigsky]

The duty of guarding Hess was on a rotation basis. During one of my many trips to Berlin before the Wall came down, one night in the mega Luxurious Officers Club at Templehof, I overheard some USAEUR types saying they were going to Spandau to see Hess. Naturally I asked to tag along. After driving through the Soviet zone and a few checkpoints, then after an American MP briefing, we had 15 minutes in a room with a huge window with a view out into the Garden. There he was. It was ( literally) like a Zoo exhibition. Hess was in his garden strolling around getting exercise. The former number 2 guy in Nazi Germany was just 35 feet away. Surreal. The whole thing about keeping Hess all these years is the stuff of conspiracy theories.

[papawx]

My God man, don't you know? Hess was contacted through Vatican backchannels {the Vatican acted in this capacity throughout the war on the behalf of both sides} that certain British royals were interested in seeing what kind of peace deal they could get from Hitler. Hess passed this on to Hitler who gave Hess his approval to make contact with the royals. For three days he was a guest of the Duke at his castle in Scotland. Other British royals were in attendance. Word of this meeting was leaked to Churchill, who became both panicked and enraged. Churchill contacted Roosevelt and told him about a pending coup to topple his government and make peace with the Germans. Roosevelt assured Churchill to hold on just for awhile longer, that the USA would be in the war within six months, and to do whatever he had to do to protect the status quo. Churchill had everyone arrested, and the coup of the royals was averted, with Hess put into a POW camp.

The official story has changed several times over the years before they finally settled on this one around 1960. Hess was murdered by the SAS and MI6 when it appeared that the Soviets were warming to the idea of releasing him on humanitarian grounds. He remembered too much. He was murdered to protect the British royals that were involved in the peace overture. How far this went among the royals, only a few know, and they aren't talking. It is interesting that the House of Windsor was once known as the House of Saxe-Coberg and Gotha {German nobility from the days of the Holy Roman Empire}.

[joebones]

Never understood why he got life but others got less. He knew too much about England’s involvement in the rise of AH

[victorgrasscourt]

The other big mystery is how Albert Speer avoided the death penalty at Nuremberg.

[flickthenick]

lesser known fact, Hess was held at a safe house at Mytchett Place (near Farnborough) which became known as Camp Z, I worked there some 20 years or so ago...

[Raven]

There are so many theories and rumours around the Hess affair from beginning to end. In would be fascinating to know the truth but it’s very unlikely we ever will.

[amberlopez]

What did Rudolf Hess know? He wanted peace. Why was he locked up all of those years?

[dont]

He was still a prisoner back in the 70s when I was a border guard stationed at Fulda. I'm pretty sure he was still alive at that time. We were is not allowed in Berlin until shortly after 1974. I remember meeting a gentleman I think it was on the Internet that was stationed with the 11th ACR and he told me that the policy had been changed and he sent me a CD of some of his films that showed the changing of the guard in the East. They were still goose-stepping back in those days.

[rankninja]

I guarded at spandau prison 86-87 on rotation with the battalion I served with. I part of the guard that guarded his dead body in the basement of British military hospital Berlin. I have fond memories of spandau prison, although the guard towers at night in the depths of winter are not.

[EdwardMedwynOwen]

A Welsh military doctor used to examine "Hess" whilst he was a prisoner at Spandau prison.Having studied Hess' medical record, many things did not tally, for example, Rudolf Hess was wounded in the chest in 1917.Such an injury would have left an indelible scar, but the person in Spandau prison, did not have a mark or any scar at all.This begs the question why ? Who was this person ?When questioned about the wound, he became very agitated.

[brotherted]

Given both that Hess apparently left Germany before the Holocaust began, and tried to circumvent Hitler, I agree with the Nuremberg verdict that he didn’t deserve the death penalty.

[nomadpi]

Why exhume him? It's not enough that he rec'd life in prison? He had nothing to do with the criminality of the the Nazi Party's policies as defined by Hess.

[nickthomas]

a colleauge guarded hess at spandau on rotation - he said that hess was drugged to the eyballs by the doctors

[fasthracing]

Once the war started Hess was pushed into the background much like Ribbintroff.

[KC-UTrmAZ]

I think Hess had some serious dirt and knowledge on some top allies (which ever countries that may be) that all came out through out the war while in captivity, that they never ever wanted out and were willing to jail him for life over it. And they did. Just my 2 cents.