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...Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with...
...moment, Hess stared at Hess. The man in the newsreel, young and strapping, screamed "Sieg Heil!" The real man, haggard and old, sank back into his seat. Psychiatrists watched him closely...
...rnberg of 1934 faded from the screen and the lights of Nürnberg, 1945, went up. Colonel John Harlan Amen, who once helped Bill O'Dwyer clean up Brooklyn's Murder Inc., softly asked: "Do you remember? Hess tried to brush his hand against his eyes, but the handcuffs stopped him. Said he: "I must have been there ... I don't remember...
...Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, just back from his four-year exile in Britain, professed a dull indifference to everything, seemed to be preparing to plead insanity...
...list of those indicted was a Nazi Who's Who: former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...