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.