Son writes about father

Press, 26 April 1984, Page 10

Son writes about father

NZPA-AP Munich The son of Rudolf Hess would release a book this week detailing the Nazi official’s flight to England in 1941 and his imprisonment in West Berlin for war crimes, the Munich publishers announced yesterday.

Wolf Ruediger Hess would present the 448-page book, “My Father, Rudolf Hess,” at a news conference in Munich today after he returned from a Spandau prison visit on his fathers ninetieth birthday, the publishers said. It was the first disclosure that the younger Hess had written a book about his father. Under the terms of prison visiting rights granted by the four-Power allies, the Hess family is forbidden from discussing

their once-monthly meetings that began in 1969. Hess, who was Adolf Hitler’s deputy until his mysterious “peace flight” to England, is serving a life sentence imposed by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. He is the last main Nazi figure still in prison. The German-language book, which includes 149 black-and-white photos, would go on sale on May 2, the publishers said. The book would discuss Hess’s flight to England, his trial at Nuremberg in 1946 with other Nazi leaders, and his life at Spandau.

Wolf Hess, who owns a Munich construction company, has been campaigning for years to have his elderly father paroled from Spandau, where he has been the only prisoner since 1966.