Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story
Latchmere House, London, 1941
"In the interrogation room, MI6 Major Frank Foley and Captain Short sat at a table with the chief interrogator, Lt-Colonel Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens in his Gurkha uniform and monocle. Hess in his Luftwaffe uniform was brought in, limping on his right leg.
"Can I have a chair, sir? My ankle is hurting," Hess complained.
"Hauptmann Horn, you are in a British Secret Service prison at the present time," said Stephens, glaring at the prisoner. "You are a prisoner of war. You will remain standing. It is our job to determine who you are, be it Hauptmann Horn, Rudolf Hess, or just some bad actor. Verstehen Sie?"
An officer came in and handed a message to Stephens.
"Wo sind Ihre Papiere? Where are your papers?"
"I lost them, sir."
"Keinen Ausweis, Herr Horn? No identity card, no Nazi party membership card, no passport. Well, if you pretend to be the Deputy Reichsminister, you must remember your party card number?"
"I forget."
"I thought Hess was an early member of the party?"
"Yes, sir."
"Could it be number 24 or maybe number 16?"
Hess looked truly stumped by the question and scratched his head.

From the bestselling author of An Absolute Secret, Shipwrecked Lives, Remembrance Man and White Slaves comes this brilliantly imagined novel about one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War. After parachuting into Scotland in 1941, the German Reichsminister Rudolf Hess was revealed to be an imposter. A team of MI5 intelligence officers led by Paul Cummings and his German wife Claudia were sent to Camp Z to investigate the Hess double. The team soon started to uncover the imposter's secrets including the shadowy Herr Oberst and his training by the SS. But the British government decided to bury the truth with the Official Secrets Act and it was only in 1973 that a British doctor confirmed the fraud during a medical examination in Berlin.
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Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story
Latchmere House, London, 1941
"In the interrogation room, MI6 Major Frank Foley and Captain Short sat at a table with the chief interrogator, Lt-Colonel Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens in his Gurkha uniform and monocle. Hess in his Luftwaffe uniform was brought in, limping on his right leg.
"Can I have a chair, sir? My ankle is hurting," Hess complained.
"Hauptmann Horn, you are in a British Secret Service prison at the present time," said Stephens, glaring at the prisoner. "You are a prisoner of war. You will remain standing. It is our job to determine who you are, be it Hauptmann Horn, Rudolf Hess, or just some bad actor. Verstehen Sie?"
An officer came in and handed a message to Stephens.
"Wo sind Ihre Papiere? Where are your papers?"
"I lost them, sir."
"Keinen Ausweis, Herr Horn? No identity card, no Nazi party membership card, no passport. Well, if you pretend to be the Deputy Reichsminister, you must remember your party card number?"
"I forget."
"I thought Hess was an early member of the party?"
"Yes, sir."
"Could it be number 24 or maybe number 16?"
Hess looked truly stumped by the question and scratched his head.

From the bestselling author of An Absolute Secret, Shipwrecked Lives, Remembrance Man and White Slaves comes this brilliantly imagined novel about one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War. After parachuting into Scotland in 1941, the German Reichsminister Rudolf Hess was revealed to be an imposter. A team of MI5 intelligence officers led by Paul Cummings and his German wife Claudia were sent to Camp Z to investigate the Hess double. The team soon started to uncover the imposter's secrets including the shadowy Herr Oberst and his training by the SS. But the British government decided to bury the truth with the Official Secrets Act and it was only in 1973 that a British doctor confirmed the fraud during a medical examination in Berlin.
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Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story

Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story

by Nicholas Kinsey
Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story

Playing Rudolf Hess: An Imposter Story

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Latchmere House, London, 1941
"In the interrogation room, MI6 Major Frank Foley and Captain Short sat at a table with the chief interrogator, Lt-Colonel Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens in his Gurkha uniform and monocle. Hess in his Luftwaffe uniform was brought in, limping on his right leg.
"Can I have a chair, sir? My ankle is hurting," Hess complained.
"Hauptmann Horn, you are in a British Secret Service prison at the present time," said Stephens, glaring at the prisoner. "You are a prisoner of war. You will remain standing. It is our job to determine who you are, be it Hauptmann Horn, Rudolf Hess, or just some bad actor. Verstehen Sie?"
An officer came in and handed a message to Stephens.
"Wo sind Ihre Papiere? Where are your papers?"
"I lost them, sir."
"Keinen Ausweis, Herr Horn? No identity card, no Nazi party membership card, no passport. Well, if you pretend to be the Deputy Reichsminister, you must remember your party card number?"
"I forget."
"I thought Hess was an early member of the party?"
"Yes, sir."
"Could it be number 24 or maybe number 16?"
Hess looked truly stumped by the question and scratched his head.

From the bestselling author of An Absolute Secret, Shipwrecked Lives, Remembrance Man and White Slaves comes this brilliantly imagined novel about one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War. After parachuting into Scotland in 1941, the German Reichsminister Rudolf Hess was revealed to be an imposter. A team of MI5 intelligence officers led by Paul Cummings and his German wife Claudia were sent to Camp Z to investigate the Hess double. The team soon started to uncover the imposter's secrets including the shadowy Herr Oberst and his training by the SS. But the British government decided to bury the truth with the Official Secrets Act and it was only in 1973 that a British doctor confirmed the fraud during a medical examination in Berlin.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781738168767
Publisher: Cinegrafica Films and Publishing
Publication date: 01/29/2024
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Kinsey is a Canadian / British writer and director of feature films and television dramas. He has been a successful director, scriptwriter, director of photography, film editor, and producer over a long career. He is the bestselling author of five historical novels and twenty feature and television drama screenplays. He is owner and producer at Cinegrafica Films since 2014 and writes a history blog. He lives in Quebec City, Canada.
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