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On August 17, 1987, an alarm was sounded in Spandau Prison in West Berlin. Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s former deputy in the Nazi Party, was found in a small garden house in the prison park. The 93-year-old prisoner was lying on the floor with a noose made from a desk lamp wire tied around his neck. Hess was still alive, but unconscious. He was rushed to the hospital, but despite all the doctors’ efforts, one of the leading Nazis soon died. The official version of Hess’s death was that he had committed suicide. But it immediately raised many doubts. Neither Hess’s relatives nor the orderly who had looked after this valuable prisoner for a long time believed that he had committed suicide. We have found the man who guarded the Nazi criminal in Spandau Prison. With his help, we will unravel the circumstances of this strange death.