Rudolf Hess is one of the most mysterious hierarchs of the Nazi Reich. Not only his life is shrouded in secrecy, but also the circumstances of his death in the Inter-Allied Prison in Spandau in 1987. Even now, debates continue over whether he committed suicide or was killed by special service agents.
The author of the book—a Soviet guard of the Spandau prison—conducted his own detailed historical investigation and arrived at unexpected conclusions that shed light on the true circumstances of the death of “the Deputy of the Führer.”