You must remember Hess, a hess is just a hess...

Remember the Rudolph Hess (Hitlers Deputy) affair, when he flew from Germany to Scotland?

I've just been reading about a new book about to be published (www.hess.co.uk) stating that it could have been a british conspiracy to have brought him over to the UK. Is this new, or has it been suggested before?

Regards

A relatively recent, 1994 book by Louis C. Kilzer, Churchill's Deception, goes into Hess's flight to Scotland in a lot of detail. It's a good read. Kilzer tells of Albrecht and Karl Haushofer, key players in the reasons for Hess's flight. Seems as though both of them kept diaries that were subsquently collected by the Allies, duly logged and their import noted. Nobody knows where the diaries went. Maybe they held information not suitable for our ears.

A relatively recent, 1994 book by Louis C. Kilzer, Churchill's Deception, goes into Hess's flight to Scotland in a lot of detail. It's a good read. Kilzer tells of Albrecht and Karl Haushofer, key players in the reasons for Hess's flight. Seems as though both of them kept diaries that were subsquently collected by the Allies, duly logged and their import noted. Nobody knows where the diaries went. Maybe they held information not suitable for our ears.

A relatively recent, 1994 book by Louis C. Kilzer, Churchill's Deception, goes into Hess's flight to Scotland in a lot of detail. It's a good read. Kilzer tells of Albrecht and Karl Haushofer, key players in the reasons for Hess's flight. Seems as though both of them kept diaries that were subsquently collected by the Allies, duly logged and their import noted. Nobody knows where the diaries went. Maybe they held information not suitable for our ears.

Maybe we'll know what's in them when the British Public Records Office releases all the Hess documents in

Some books Hess fans may be interested in:

'The Case of Rudolph Hess'. 1947 pub Heinemann. by 7 doctors who were concerned with him 1941-47

'The Murder of Rudolph Hess'.1979. pub Hodder & Stoughton, by Dr Hugh Thomas. ISBN 0 340 24301 5

'Hess. A Tale of Two Murders'. pub 1988 revised ed of above. pub H & S. Dr Hugh Thomas. ISBN 0-340-48869-7 0-340-49056-X paperback

'Hess. Flight for the Fuhrer'. pub 1991 Weidenfeld & Nicholson Peter Padfield. ISBN 0 297 81181 9

Dr Thomas is a surgeon, 1970-78 in RAMC in Berlin where he looked after Hess in Spandau.

Yes. Costello wrote a book about the whole episode. His thrust is that Hess was lured to Scotland as part of a plot on the part of Churchill to stop movement among the appeasers for a negotiated peace with Hitler. The book is well documented, quite presuasive, but not, IMO, totally convincing.