European National Socialists marching in Berlin-Spandau to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Hitler’s former deputy Rudolf Hess were met over with over 2,000 counter-protesters, Saturday, leading to confrontations that descended into sporadic fist fights between the two groups.
By Mark R. Elsis
[August 17, 2012}
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children’s coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”
~ Rudolf Hess (June 10, 1941)
Footage from an old Kriegsberichter videotape. Showing a Rudolf Hess memorial march in Denmark in 1997.
D. D. Desjardins
I was in Ohio on August 17, 1987 when news came of the death of Rudolf Hess at Spandau Prison. Within several days, it was reported that Hess had committed suicide, a version endorsed several weeks later by his Allied jailers (the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France) in official communiques:
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It was one of the most perplexing episodes of the Second World War which, more than 70 years on, remains shrouded in mystery.
