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Walter Richard Rudolf Hess, the last of Hitler's lieutenants, died last week in Nuremberg Prison in West Berlin in characteristically murky circumstances. Allied officials said Hess had committed suicide, as did his long-dead fellow Nazis - Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and Himmler, strangling himself with an electric cord. They said he left a note pointing to suicide, but a lawyer for the partially blind 93-year-old prisoner suggested there might have been foul play.
Nearly every day for four decades, the prisoner took a stroll through a tiny garden inside West Berlin's forbidding Spandau fortress. He was never without a keeper and his gait had slowed to a shuffle over the years, but he rarely missed the opportunity for fresh air. Last Monday a guard left him alone briefly in a small cottage at the garden's edge. A few minutes later the guard returned to find the sole inmate of Spandau slumped over, an electrical cord wound tightly around his neck. Rushed to the nearby British Military Hospital, 93-year-old Hess was pronounced dead at 4:10 p.m. An autopsy showed that he had died of asphyxiation.
Walter Richard Rudolf Hess, the last of Hitler's lieutenants, died last week in Nuremberg Prison in West Berlin in characteristically murky circumstances. Allied officials said Hess had committed suicide, as did his long-dead fellow Nazis - Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and Himmler, strangling himself with an electric cord. They said he left a note pointing to suicide, but a lawyer for the partially blind 93-year-old prisoner suggested there might have been foul play.
Nearly every day for four decades, the prisoner took a stroll through a tiny garden inside West Berlin's forbidding Spandau fortress. He was never without a keeper and his gait had slowed to a shuffle over the years, but he rarely missed the opportunity for fresh air. Last Monday a guard left him alone briefly in a small cottage at the garden's edge. A few minutes later the guard returned to find the sole inmate of Spandau slumped over, an electrical cord wound tightly around his neck. Rushed to the nearby British Military Hospital, 93-year-old Hess was pronounced dead at 4:10 p.m. An autopsy showed that he had died of asphyxiation.
