'Double Standards; the Rudolf Hess Cover-up'
By Lynn Picknett, Clive
Prince and Stephen Prior with additional historical research by
Robert Brydon.
Published Time Warner
Books
ISBN: 978-0751532203
It is a curious fact that
there is a dearth of books written in the German language that have
studied in any detail the flight to England on May 10, 1941 of the
second most powerful man in wartime Germany and Hitler's cabinet,
Rudolf Hess. For the most part what we think we know about this
episode of World War Two was tightly controlled by the British
government,
with archive restrictions placed on peripheral documents for 50 years
after the closing days of WW2. (The very heart of this matter is
still under archive restriction.) The authors here, following good
document trails, bring to light details
surrounding the Hess affair little known to the public.
- Hess
flew to Britain with Hitler's full knowledge, to conclude the very
generous peace treaty details which had the potential to derail what
was shaping up to be a very lucrative war for the bankers providing
financial backing to the Allied governments.
- A
substantial peace party existed in Britain in 1941, including most
of the aristocracy and the Royal family.
A senior member, the Duke of Hamilton, was
actually waiting for Hess to arrive that fateful night in 1941.
- The
prisoner known as 'Hess' who died in Spandau prison was likely a
brain-washed double.
- The
fate of the real Hess was inextricably linked to the mysterious
death of the king's brother, the Duke
of Kent, in a plane crash in Scotland in 1942. (The records and
sequence of events surrounding this affair have for decades been
obscured by denial and obfuscation.)
- Winston Churchill manipulated
the imprisonment of the real Hess to influence Hitler and change
Britain's fortunes in the war.
Regarding the identity of
Prisoner Seven, Alan Dulles, founding
head of the CIA, was of the opinion that Prisoner Seven at Nuremberg
was not the real Rudolf Hess – and this was also the opinion of
President Roosevelt himself. In the 1970s, British surgeon and
ballistics expert, Dr. Hugh Thomas, physically examined the old man
in Spandau and knowing that the real Hess had been wounded by a
bullet in the First World War he looked for the scarring
on the old man's body but could not find it. For those who knew him
and stood trial alongside him at the Nuremberg rallies, aspertions
were cast on not only the sanity of the prisoner known as
Rudolf Hess but also on his identity. The very people who could have
revealed completely any subterfuge regarding the presence of an
imposter were Hess's wife and son;
however these individuals were kept at arm's
length by the person 'Hess' for most of the duration of his
incarceration as Prisoner Seven at Spandau Prison.
This has to be one of the
most intriguing chapters of World War Two with its
attendant smoke and many mirrors. The authors here do a fabulous job
in pulling seemingly disparate strands of evidence together that have
languished in obscure archives for over 50 years to present a
compelling and curious narrative.
The following is a documentary based on this book;
https://youtu.be/wRrCMeqEats?si=_RPR251zwx0FCPZ2