Thatcher Tried To Get Rudolf Hess Released From Spandau Prison

Submitted by potrokin on July 20, 2017

Among other Tory MPs: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/20/uk-pressed-for-rudolf-hess-release-from-spandau-prison-soviets-hitler-thatcher-national-archives

potrokin

6 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by potrokin on July 20, 2017

Perhaps more significant are the efforts of James Callaghan to do the same.

ajjohnstone

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on July 23, 2017

Just a bit of trivia.

A fellow postie, an ex-Coldstream Guard, was deployed as a guard at Spandau and although forbidden to talk to Hess, he did give him an apple, which was strictly against orders.

I have a vague memory however that the joint committee responsible for Hess continued imprisonment and decided his fate once met and the Russian delegation failed to turn up. With no-one to veto it, they nevertheless did not authorise his release so another of the of the 4 Powers shared the Soviet attitude.