The World - News from Aug. 23, 1987
West German police said they arrested 78 neo-Nazi protesters--some wearing swastikas and shouting the Nazi salute, “Sieg, heil!”--near the area where Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, is to be buried this week. “Rudolf Hess was murdered!” chanted some of the protesters in the northern Bavarian village of Wunsiedel. Public display of the swastika is forbidden in West Germany. According to Allied officials, the 93-year-old Hess strangled himself Monday in Spandau prison. But Hess’s family, doubting the results, ordered a second autopsy. The results are expected to be announced Monday.
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