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  • History of War

    THE TRUTH ABOUT RUDOLF HESS

    Dec 27, 2018 2 minutes

    Author: James Douglas-Hamilton Publisher: Frontline Books Price: £19.99

    Early on the morning of 11 May 1941, Adolf Hitler was having one of his habitual tantrums. Rudolf Hess’s adjutant Karl-Heinz Pintsch had arrived at the Berchtesgaden, the führer’s Eagle’s Nest in the Bavarian Alps, bringing with him an astonishing letter from his boss. The man who

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