Have you heard the story that it was not topnazisten Rudolf Hess but a doppelganger, who served a life sentence in Spandau prison after the nazi war crimes?
This theory has now been conclusively rejected with a DNA test that can say with 99.99 percent probability of kinship between the ‘catch the number 7’, which Rudolf Hess was called, and a distant and anonymous relative to him. It writes The Guardian according to the Science.dk.
Even Rudolf Hess’ doctor in Spandau prison thought that there was a doppelganger, writes The Guardian according to the Science.dk. Among other things, because he refused to see his family and claimed to suffer from amnesia.
However, it has saved a blood sample taken from the catch the number 7 in 1982.
And according to the scientists behind the study to find a distant relative of Rudolf Hess, have you been able to compare the old blood sample with a blood sample from the slægtningen.
Normal faderskabstests works not so distant relatives, with by focus on the Y-chromosomes, scientists could follow their relationship from fathers to sons.
Laboranterne, who performed the test, was not informed beforehand about what the historical person was talking about.
Rudolf Hess was together with a number of other topnazister convicted during the Nuremberg trials. While the others were sentenced to death, he was one of those who got life in prison.
the Penalty would be in the Spandau prison in Berlin, where he arrived in 1947 as ‘prisoner no. 7’. In 1987, when he was the only inmate left in the prison, and he did not suicide.
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