ZDF - Last Secrets of the Third Reich Series 1 (2012) Part 5 The Hess Enigma
Last Secrets of the Third Reich Series 1
What happened to trainloads worth of Nazi-gold at the end of WW2? How much truth is in the idea that Hitler’s personal physician was gradually poisoning him with medication? What happened to the lost submarine U-513? Why did Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess make a fateful flight to the United Kingdom in 1941? And how did secret intelligence missions work in an age before modern technology? These are just some of the mysterious questions we seek to answer using incredible new.
Part 5 The Hess Enigma
On the 17th of August, 1987, news of the suicide of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s former deputy, spreads across the world. It seems the 93-year-old hanged himself in the notorious prison for Nazi War-Criminals Spandau near Berlin. But his death is as mysterious as his life had been.
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