Guarding Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Führer

[@elliottg.1954]

Very interesting podcast, and yes it was almost certainly Hess in there, not a body double. As Dave says, the barracks were very close to the prison in Spandau and Brooke-Wavell was directly across the road. When Hess died and Spandau jail was demolished, a new shopping complex was built and we nicknamed it 'Hesco's'.

[@ColdWarConversations]

Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad it brought back some memories for you. I love the “Hesco’s” story. Great British army humour!

[@gordontaylor5373]

@@ColdWarConversations I thought they'd call it 'Hesco's' What a great joke!

[@buffplums]

I only did a few weeks out there on a job with the RAF around 85 we were fitting some gear in one of the sneaky beaky sites …consequently we weren’t allowed to go East in case we got arrested and working with special stuff …saying re was nowt special about what we fitted but it was just in prep for future installations…anyway during the short time there it was an incredibly interesting place … never forget seeing some conscripts being marched along the middle path somewhere around the site of Adolfs bunker… the guard was wearing what looked like a WWII battle dress with a shoulder slung wooden furnished rifle that looked like a Lee Enfield … well weird. Remember going past the prison in a double decker bus and there were signs that prohibited photography … so had to take a photo…😂

[@ColdWarConversations]

Thanks for sharing your story.

[@lafayettemoreira4423]

Why killed in Spandau 1986? Why?

[@jano-ir1cg]

Not to tell the truth about why war started. And the German's effort to avoid the war. Never interviewed either.

[@Nathan-bd6cq]

Cause he was getting annoying to look after

[@7jarrow]

I would have liked if he was asked more about time in Northern Ireland. It must have been his most difficult posting.

[@ColdWarConversations]

Fair point. I'm working on some episodes where the eyewitness talks a bout their time in Northern Ireland.

[@mariar4431]

It was wrong to keep him there for so long.

[@user-tp4ll7vu1i]

I don't agree, I think his sentence was fair, I may even gravitate to the death penalty

[@jano-ir1cg]

I'm one of the people who is not sure that guy was the originak Hess. Why was'nt he allowed to speak to any media for 40 years?

[@RobertGreenlee-f8u]

Or even talk about it with his family they were hiding something

[@user-tp4ll7vu1i]

He was not a TV game show host, Hess was sentenced to life, deservedly so I think. I see no reason to think Hess in Spandau was a double, or that he was murdered, that is all nonsense

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

​@@user-tp4ll7vu1iIt's not nonsense. The person in Spandau did not have the external scars that the WW1 Hess should have.

[@arrasonline]

The USA, Britain, France and the USSR were convinced it was Hess...but you are not? I suspect no amount of stories or evidence would convince you.