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Photographs of the body of Rudolf Hess suggest Adolf Hitler’s 93-year-old deputy may have been murdered rather than committing suicide at Spandau Prison in West Berlin on Aug. 17, 1987, Britain’s Sunday Observer newspaper reported. The photographs were part of a postmortem report by Wolfgang Spann, of Munich, West Germany, who suggested the Nazi leader died as a result of “deliberate strangulation rather than hanging,” the paper said. It said the photos were brought to London by Hess’s son, Wolf Rudiger Hess. The son met Friday with officials investigating suggestions his father did not commit suicide, said the paper. Rudolf Hess was found dead while serving a life sentence for Nazi crimes.
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