1943年5月,雜誌《美國信使(英语:The American Mercury)》刊出一則匿名來源的小道消息,指出英國情報單位MI6利用與漢密爾頓公爵親自會面的條件來引誘赫斯自投羅網;然而這則消息被希特勒所否認。[5]赫斯在牢房裡受到非常嚴密的監視,包括所有的警衛和監獄人員都不可與赫斯說話,一直到赫斯死亡為止,因此赫斯當年到底和英國討論何種事務,顯然是最高機密。
^Bird, Eugene K. Prisoner #7: Rudolf Hess. The Viking Press. 1974: 235.NOTE: Bird showed the Haushofer Letters in the National Archives in Washington D. C.
^"The Inside Story of the Hess Flight" The American Mercury compendium volume CX-CXI Spring 1974 page 18 p. 22
^Hess Dies at 93; Hitler's Last Lieutenant. New York Times. 1987-08-23 [2007-07-21]. (原始内容存档于2008-12-20). 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.
^Germany The Inmate of Spandau's Last Wish. 時代雜誌. 1987-08-31 [2007-08-21]. (原始内容存档于2008-12-06). 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.
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