Was Rudolf Hess Murdered? (Nazi Hess Conspiracies)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Rudolph Hess's Efforts to Free His Father Ultimately Backfired
There was concern that if he got out of prison, he might start making public statements and stirring up pro-Nazi people in Germany. Wolf argued that his father was unjustly imprisoned to hide the UK's war guilt. In 1986, a Soviet guard caught the Protestant chaplain of Spandau, Pastor Charles Gable, trying to smuggle out a 17-page statement by Hess.
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After World War II, Nazi leader Rudolph Hess was imprisoned in Germany's Spandau prison. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whether the man in Spandau was Hess or an impostor and whether he died by suicide or was murdered and who would have done it.
