The World - News from April 12, 1987
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is considering amnesty for Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy who is serving a life term in West Berlin’s Spandau prison, a West German news magazine reported. Der Spiegel, in a report attributed to diplomatic circles in Moscow, said the Soviet Union appears ready to drop its opposition to releasing the 92-year-old Hess, the only Nazi leader still held by the World War II victors. The Americans, British and French, who along with the Soviets run the prison in the British sector of Berlin, long have advocated freeing Hess.
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