Science & Planet Even the then American president Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was an adherent of the theory: nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s faithful companion, was in 1941, replaced by a doppelganger in Spandau prison in West Berlin. Was the real Hess as it escapes his lifelong prison and fled abroad, or already during the Second world War, murdered by other nazis?
for Decades, it was believed to be in the highest political echelons that the man known as “prisoner number 7” in the West Berlin prison, a doppelganger, it was not Hess, until 1941 Hitler’s deputy and one of his closest friends.
Hess was in 1941, captured after a remarkable solo flight and parachutelanding in Scotland, where he hoped to get a peace agreement to close. But that event led to countless questions and theories. Why flew Hess in the middle of the war to Scotland? According to some he was by Hitler, already pushed aside, and on his arrival in Scotland already mentally unstable. According to other writers emerged in England around that period, even two Hessen.
Lifelong imprisonment
The generally accepted view is that Hess after his landing at various locations including the Tower of London and a hospital in South Wales, was held. He was thereafter in 1946 during the trials against the nazikopstukken in Nuremberg tried and he got a life sentence. Although he from the beginning to the loyal followers of Hitler had belonged, escaped he to the death penalty.
