HESS’S SON OBJECTS
Army Training MUNICH, Feb. 24. Wolf Hess, the 23-year-old son of Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess, had his application for Army exemption rejected today by the Munich recruitment office. Wol'f Hess, a student of architecture, said in his application last year that his objection was “for family reasons.” His conscience forbade him to do military service for the former judges of his father. Rudolf Hess .was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes at Nuremberg in 1946 and is one of the three remaining prisoners in the four-Power gaol for war criminals at Spandau, near Berlin. An official of the recruiting office said earlier: “We can only release someone whose conscience fprbids him to do military service on religious or philosophic grounds.” Holyoake Visits KishL—Mr K. J. Holyoake, leader of the New Zealand Opposition, today paid a courtesy call on the Japanese Prime Ministr (Mr Kishi).— Tokyo, February 24.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29138, 25 February 1960, Page 17
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