Rudolf Hess, the high-ranking Nazi who parachuted into Scotland in 1941 in a bid to end World War II, died Monday at 93 after having spent close to half a century in jail. Alfred Seidl, the Hess ...

Newsweek published this story under the headline of "A Last Relic of the Reich" on August 31, 1987. A group of neo-Nazis planned a public demonstration to commemorate the death of Rudolf Hess, ...

An enduring conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal, Rudolf Hess, had been replaced by a double in jail has finally been put to rest. A DNA test carried out by Austrian scientists has shown that ...

How wrong he judged the political mood. Hess, the Nazi deputy and Hitler’s long serving assistant, ended up committing suicide in the allies’ Spandau prison in Berlin in 1987, 46 years after the ...

A doppelganger controversy surrounding the death of Nazi leader and war criminal Rudolf Hess finally ended after Austrian scientists published DNA research authenticating his body. Hess was found ...

Rudolf Hess, 93, who helped Adolf Hitler propel Germany into World War II and then paid for it by spending nearly half a century in prison; in the prewar years, he ranked second to Hitler in power, ...

Claims that Nazi Rudolf Hess was allegedly murdered under orders from the British to stop him revealing wartime secrets have been revealed in a police report which has only just seen the light of day ...

Britain tried in vain to allow Hitler's deputy to be freed after 30 years in jail for war crimes, according to newly released secret files. Rudolf Hess died in 1987 However, the Russians never forgave ...

A long-standing conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess was replaced by a doppelgänger in prison has been debunked. But now scientists say analysis of blood samples from Spandau #7 ...

The grave containing the remains of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess has been destroyed to end it being used as a pilgrimage site. Hess's bones were exhumed at dawn on July 21 at the graveyard in the ...