[PDF file]: Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess Sherman McCall, Phillip R. Pittman, Richard Wahl, Francis Powers, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich * This paper refutes all objections to our DNA identification of Rudolf Hess.1 Inter alia we will: 1. Reveal the reporting error prompting many false charges. 2. Explain how Hess’s chest scars were overlooked. 3. Explain […]
[PDF file]: The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941 Simon Matthews The writing of history is quite properly treated as a discipline. Many reputable historians, therefore, tend to be conservative, requiring multiple archival sources, an abundance of documentation and testimony from respectable eyewitnesses before reaching their conclusions. This often means that a very high […]
[PDF file]: Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery? Andrew Rosthorn It is forty years since the publication of The Murder of Rudolf Hess by the former British Army surgeon Hugh Thomas. The introduction to that book was written by Dame Rebecca West, a daring feminist and ally of Orwell in the 1930s […]
[PDF file]: […] died in the bunker or escaped’. Professor Newsinger did not touch on Sir Richard Evans’s description of how the wartime arrival in Scotland of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, piloting a fast fighter bomber from Augsburg to Glasgow on May 10, 1941, in a peace mission just six weeks before the German invasion of the […]
[PDF file]: The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years Rudolf Hess: Treachery and Deception John Harris and Richard Wilbourn Jema Publications, Northampton NN3 7TJ, UK, h/b £25 RRP on sale through Amazon and Ebay. ISBN:978 1 871468 94 6 How did Hitler’s deputy come to be piloting an unarmed fighter-bomber, at […]
[PDF file]: More Hess Take me to your leader (or can I see the King please?) Simon Matthews On 9 May 1941, the day before he made his flight to the UK, Rudolf Hess ‘. . . called a legal officer on Martin Boorman’s staff to ask the position of the King of England probably he […]
[PDF file]: Rudolf Hess: Truth at last The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 John Harris and Richard Wilbourn. Axminster (Devon): Uniformbooks, 2019, £12.875 (p/b) Michael Hindley As a long standing student of things German, I was pleased to read this book by Harris and Wilbourn, an updated version of the […]
[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 151 Andrew Rosthorn On 22 January 2019, the New Scientist announced: Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory Founded in 1956 for ‘all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences’, the New Scientist claimed to be settling 79 years of doubt about the identity of a German […]
[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 14 From Andrew Rosthorn To the Editor, New Scientist, King’s Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS March 20, 2020 Questions Arising from the New Scientist article of January 22, 2019: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’ Dear Ms Wilson, I would like to bring to your attention […]
[…] media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch series. (Discussed in Lobster 20) Like most of his comments on that programme, this just isn’t true. Most media stars who die […]
