The grave of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess is seen in Wunsiedel, Germany, on August 16, 2000. German police are expecting neo-Nazis to commemorate Hess's death, which occurred August 17, 1987. The ...

BERLIN – The bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town that had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Before dawn Wednesday, workers ...

Hess was born the eldest of three children in Alexandria, Egypt in 1897 to ethnically German parents. He was sent to boarding school in 1908 to study and went on to enrol at the University of Munich ...

The remains of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess were exhumed from his grave in Germany after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. On Wednesday, his body was taken from his grave in the northern Bavarian ...

At a press conference in Manhattan two weeks ago Brendan Bracken cheerfully answered a dozen questions about Rudolf Hess. The British Minister of Information’s volubility was a sign that the official ...

THE British authorities were desperate to debunk claims that Rudolf Hess was really an imposter, according to newly released official files. By 1979 Hitler's deputy had been behind bars for almost ...

A doppelganger controversy surrounding the death of Nazi leader and war criminal Rudolf Hess finally ended after Austrian scientists published DNA research authenticating his body. Hess was found ...

An enduring conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal, Rudolf Hess, had been replaced by a double in jail has finally been put to rest. A DNA test carried out by Austrian scientists has shown that ...

BERLIN — The bones of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, have been exhumed and will be disposed of because his grave in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis ...

Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's wartime deputy before he flew from Germany to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace deal (Central Press/Getty Images) A DNA test has debunked the enduring ...