The British launched four inquires to get to the truth about the doppelganger theory - AP

A Second World War conspiracy theory which suggested Nazi deputy fuhrer Rudolf Hess had escaped justice after being replaced with a doppelganger, has finally been debunked after new DNA evidence came to light.

Hess was arrested in 1941 after parachuting in to Scotland to broker peace with Britain, later tried at Nuremberg and incarcerated in Spandau prison Berlin until his death in 1987.

But British doctor Hugh Thomas who worked at Spandau insisted the prisoner purporting to be Hess did not have the correct scars, prompting four inconclusive investigations by the British government.

Now the mystery has finally been solved after a retired military doctor from the US Army and a forensic scientist from Austria tracked down a blood sample from Hess and compared it to relatives still living in Germany.

The results show there is just a one per cent chance that the blood did not belong to the eminent Nazi.

Dr Sherman McCall was working in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington when he first learned that colleague Rick Wahl had once worked at Spandau and had brought back a smear of Hess’s blood to use as a teaching aid.


Soldiers and policemen in Eaglesham inspect the wreckage of the Messerschmitt ME-110 in which Nazi leader Rudolf Hess made his solo flight to Scotland Credit: Hulton Archive

Yet it was not until years later that McCall discovered there was doubt over Hess’s identity and asked to use the sample to learn the truth.

Jan Cemper-Kiesslich, a molecular biologist in the DNA Unit at the department of legal medicine, University of Salzburg, Austria, extracted DNA from the dried blood and the pair then hunted down a relative to see if it was a match.


Slides containing Hess's blood Credit: Heidelberg MEDDAC

Statistical analysis of the results suggests a 99.99 per cent likelihood that the blood sample on the slide comes from a close family member of the living relative of Hess.

The research, published in the journal Forensic Science International Genetics concludes that it is virtually certain “that prisoner ‘Spandau #7’ was indeed was Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich”.

“The conspiracy theory claiming that prisoner ‘Spandau #7’ was an impostor is extremely unlikely and therefore disproved,” the authors added.

“Due to the lucky event of the presence of a biological trace sample originating from prisoner ‘Spandau #7’ the authors got the unique chance to shed new light on one of the most persistent historical memes of World War II history.”

Dr Turi King, the geneticist at the University of Leicester, UK, who led the forensic examination of the body of Richard III, told New Scientist: “They’ve got a perfect match with the Y chromosome and a living male Hess relative.

“If this person was a doppelgänger, you wouldn’t get that match, so from that point of view it’s a good sign.”



Comments
1) DDT
Why would Rudolph Hess be swapped for someone else? It makes no sense.
If they wanted to allow Hess to live a normal life, then it would have been simpler to simply set up a fake accident, where "his" body would be burned beyond recognition in either a car crash or a bombing raid while being transported across the Country.
Then there is the question, why would anyone undertake playing the part of Hess for the period of time that he was locked up in Spandau Prison after the War ended?
Again, if this was a "fake Hess," why wasn't a staged death set up so as to allow the impersonator to return to their normal life?
It's all like the plot of a Dan Brown novel.


2) Lawrence
There is something you can absolutely believe when you read the biased media coverage of all German WW2 articles; and that is, NONE of the things they write or have written about it! They fabricated everything!

Antifa are vvankers
So True. To understand Hitler you first have to understand the outcome of WW1. Hitler the greatest story never told


3) Leon
It was recently proven that the remains of "Hitler" were not his, they turned out to be female, so if that's been disproved then who knows what is true?


4) Antifa are vvankers
Hitler had the most diverse army known to man. Yet the Jewish run MSM always say he is a racist. The Jews invented the word racist. NO one ever got a country from the pits to the top of the world with in two years to date except Hitler. The man was a legend to many

WanHeungLo
Hitler liked moslems!


5) Antifa are vvankers
Would Germany be in the state it is now if it was being run by Hitler ? Never in a million years

Kevin
Germany should never have been allowed to exist after ww2. Should have been broken up and renamed to stop nazi sympathisers like yourself to exist. World would be a far better place.


6) Antifa are vvankers
If you want to keep listening to the Jewish run MSM then you will never get to know the true facts.
To understand Hitler you first have to understand the outcome of WW1 . watch on YouTube. Hitler The Greatest Story Never Told and you will see what the Jews did to the Germans . The Jews own everything MSM banks the gold the diamonds the internet they own everything in your bank and your brains.Hitler probably the only person in the world to give them some of their own medicine

Kevin
Truth is Germany should have been broken up after


7) New England Patriot
Hess, the Nazi who came to Britain to do a peace deal with the nazi supporting ruling classes. They should have been in the same prison, if they had got their way Britain would have signed a shameful peace deal with this abhorrent regime. They were quite prepared to sell this nation out using its German family links to the Royals

8) Pharaoh Piankhi
Well that will upset the British white nationalists

New England Patriot
Not sure I understand why it would?

Pharaoh Piankhi
Why? Because you and the German Nazis share the same ideology

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conspiracy-theory-rudolf-hess-switched-160439035.html
http://archive.is/lR33t
http://archive.is/GKY6h
http://archive.is/Q1lWu


How can we trust those DNA tests? A person who had a DNA test said that the results came back saying he is Chinese...but he isn't, and one for dogs wanted a picture of your dog with it for the results. That was tested and a picture of a dog of a different breed was sent and the results came back with the breed of the dog in the picture, not the actual dog.

Can you give me some links that recently Hitlers DNA was found to be (not his)

Rudolf Hess was really in there, and he was abused in prison for decades. He tried to at all costs create a peace between Britain and NS Germany, for which he was imprisoned. Hitler told him to not go, but he decided to go and attempt to avoid the biggest and most catastrophic war of the century.

Are there any reliable sources or books that document his incarceration?