Table of Contents
Table of Contents i
Acknowledgements and Dedication vii
Forewarned is Forearmed ix
Part 1 The Hess Mess
1 Spandau Ballet (and No, We Don't Mean the 1980s Rock Group) 1
A The Harvey's Barn Methodology: The Hess Mess as an Epistemological and Historiographical Puzzle 5
1 The Questions that lead to The Question 7
B In My End is My Beginning… 10
1 A Death in Spandau 10
2 But What Kind of Death? 12
a The First Bit of Debris in the Hess Mess 12
b Abdallah Melaouhi and Wolf Rüdiger Hess: The Problems with the "Suicide" Explanation Begin 15
(1) The Delaying Tactics of the British and American Guards 18
(2) The Scene of the Crime: "Americans" in Ill-Fitting Uniforms 21
(3) Hess's Physical Inability to Perform the Tasks Required for His Suicide According to the Official Narrative 24
(4) Miscellanies: Champagne Parties, Tampered First Aid Kits, and a Familiar Pattern of the Destruction of Evidence 25
(5) Melaouhi's Assessment of the Motivations: the "Gorbachev Hypothesis" 27
C The Autopsies 30
1 The Magical Year of 2017: Weeding the Files 33
2 A Strange Remark in Melaouhi's Recovered Letter from Hess 34
2 The Son Speaks About the "Suicide" 35
A Anomalies Noted by Hess's Son, Wolf Rüdiger-Hess 38
B The Pre-Planned Protocols for Hess's Death, vs. What Actually Happened: The Autopsies Again 42
C Was Rudolf Hess Suicidal? 43
1 A Prior Attempt on Hess's Life? Or an Interrupted Mind Control Procedure? 44
2 The First Attempt at Murder-by-Medical Emergency: The Prostate Surgery Affair 48
D The South African Affidavit 50
E A Brief Note on German Reunification 53
3 A Brief Biography 55
A Early Life and World War One (1894-1914) 56
B Wounds: Hess Becomes a Pilot (1914-1918) 57
C Post-War: From Putsch to Power (1919-1933) 59
1 The Haushofers and Hess 59
a Hess and the Freikorps von Epp 59
b 1919: Hess, the Haushofers, "Geopolitics," and the Thulegesellschaft 62
(1) The Thulegesellschaft 62
(2) Hess, The Haushofers, and "Geopolitics" 70
(a) Mackinder, Kjellén, the Heartland, and "Lebensraum" 73
c The Spartacist Coup and the Beer Hall Putsch 77
d Landsberg Prison: Hitler, Hess and Mein Kampf 79
D The Stellvertreter: Hess's Power within the Nazi Regime (1933-41) 82
1 The Nuremberg Indictment and Hess's Power 82
2 The Moral Ambiguity of Hess, and the Hess-Bormann Relationship 85
4 Flight of Fancy, Peace Proposals, Doubles Dilemmas, Difficulties with Dukes, and Nonsense at Nuremberg 87
A Nonsense at Nuremberg and Difficulties of Doubles 88
1 Foretastes of MK-Ultra: Allen Dulles and Hess at Nuremberg 88
2 "Hess's" Strange, Buffoonish Behavior at Nuremberg: "Brain Poison" and Hess's "Jewish-Bolshevik Mind-Control Conspiracy" 93
3 Picknett's, Prince's, and Prior's Assessment of "Hess's" Nuremberg Speeches 104
B More about the Doubles Dilemma 109
1 War Wounds, Missing Scar Tissue, and Magic Bullets 109
2 Anomalous Corroborating Behavior and Other Miscellanies 113
3 Picknett, Prince, and Prior Weigh in on the Doppelganger Dilemma 117
a The Actual War Wounds, and the Implications: The Real Hess Parachuted into Scotland 119
b The Secret Measurement of Hess for a Duplicate Uniform: Substitution and Assassination Theories 122
C The Flight of Fancy and Hess's Capture 124
1 The Strange "Shoot Down" Order and Conveying the News of Hess's Flight to Hitler 124
a The Hess Flight in Some Standard Histories 124
2 The Flight Itself and Its Implications: British and German Air Defenses 133
a The Strategic Positions of Britain and Germany in the Spring of 1941 and the Oft-Overlooked Factor: the Atomic Bomb 134
(1) A Speculation on the "Lure" Hypothesis 137
(2) Churchill's 1942 Address to the House of Commons: Conspiracy Confirmed 138
3 "Sealing the Deal" 139
a Harris and Wilbourn's Examination of the British Constitution 139
b The "Haushofer Letters." The German Side: No Peace with Churchill; The British Side: No Peace with Hitler 142
(1) The 1938 Army Plot and the 1939 Göring-Dahlerus Peace Effort 148
4 The Aircraft: Messerschmitt Bf 110 150
a The Fuel Tanks and Drop Tanks 150
b The Oil Tanks 152
c The Maps, Flight Plans, and Their Implications 153
d The Response of the British Air Defenses, and the Difficulty of Dungavel 157
D The Difficulties with the Dukes 159
1 The British Peace Faction 159
2 Anglo-American Union, Altered Speeches, and Strange Messages 165
3 Was the Peace Plan also a Coup d'Etat Plan? 170
4 The Coup Hypothesis and Hess's University Essay 175
5 "Hess" in Britain, 1941-1945: More Mind Manipulation, Ducal Difficulties, and Doubles Dilemmas 177
A Capture and Immediate Aftermath 178
1 The "Manifestation" of Morris and McBride 178
a The McBride Anomalies 180
b The Inventory of What Hess Brought with Him: A Strange, and Old, Irish Manuscript? 182
c Major Graham Donald Identifies Hess by Means of Another Absurd Conversation about Beer 185
2 Anomalies: A Glaring Absence, and a Polish Officer Talks to Hess 186
3 Telegrams, Coville's Strange Statement, and the Marx Brothers 191
B From the Tower to Maindiff 194
C Ducal Difficulties, Royal Protection and Reception Committees 197
D A Short but Necessary Final Tangent: The Hess Flight and the Rise of Martin Bormann 203
6 Sacrifices, Surrenders, Statements and States 207
A Israel, Hess, and the Grand Dame of Conspiracy Theory 210
1 The Israelis and Hess 210
2 Hess, Halifax, Chamberlain, Churchill, the Reichs-Kristallnacht, The Balfour Declaration, and the "Jewish Question" 212
3 Lord Victor Rothschild, MI-5, the Communists and Colonel Pilcher Again 216
B The Holocaust Hypothesis and the Hess Peace Plan 223
C The Nordau Quotation and Its Implications for the Hess Mess 226
D Taking Stock 229
Part 2 The Penguin problem
7 Penguins and the "Peace Plan" 235
A Heinz Schön and Operation Highjump 236
1 A Brief Review of Antarctic Strangeness 236
2 Disturbing Questions about Highjump 237
a The German Antarctic Expedition and State Councilor Wohlthat 237
b The Post-war American Expedition of Admiral Richard Byrd in 1946-47 241
3 The Operational Plan of Highjump 244
4 The Strange Death of Admiral Richard Byrd's Son 247
B Penguins, the Peace Plan, and the Hess Mess: What About Norway? 248
C A Brief Review 252
8 Epilogue: Spandau Ballet (And Yes, This Time We Do Mean the 1980s Music Group) 257
Bibliography 263
