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REMINDER OF HIS MURDER AT SPANDAU

Neo-Nazis create 55-cent Rudolf Hess stamp
The Associated Press Wednesday, 21 May 2008

BERLIN — German neo-Nazis used a service offered by Deutsche
Post to create a 55-cent stamp carrying a portrait of Hitler’s
deputy Rudolf Hess, the company said Wednesday.

The latest newsletter of the far-right National Democratic Party
gloated about being able to slip the stamp past Deutsche Post’s
quality-control personnel.

“The Hess stamp is out there,” wrote Hannes Natter in the May
edition of Deutsche Stimme, or German Voice.

Deutsche Post spokesman Dirk Klasen confirmed someone had
managed to slip an order of 20 of the stamps past the company
by using a service that has been printing customized stamps
since February — usually for birthdays, anniversaries or other
celebrations.

“It runs in most cases without difficulty,” Klasen said. “Only with
the Hess image did something go awry.”

The service allows individuals to upload their own pictures over
the Internet for a custom stamp design, and order anywhere from
20 to 10,000 of them with a starting price of around $55.

Deutsche Post was reviewing its oversight procedures, Klasen said,
though he added that “there can be no 100 percent certainty”
that something else would not slip through.

RUDOLF HESS AT SPANDAU—Pacing the grounds as
sole prisoner of the fortress prison where he was to
be savagely murdered by his Allied captors in 1987.
Hess, deputy to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was arrested in Britain
in 1941 after parachuting into the country on a peace mission.
He was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes at the postwar
Nuremberg trials of senior Nazi officials.

From the mid-1960s, he was the only prisoner at Berlin’s Spandau
prison, guarded by an international team of wardens from Britain,
France, the U.S. and Soviet Union. He [allegedly] “killed himself”
there in 1987 at age 93.*

He is a hero to the German far-right scene, members of which
often use the anniversary of his death in August to stage
demonstrations.

*Actually, the 93-year-old Hess was murdered by British MI6 agents,
operating in collusion with their American counterparts. Immediately
following his killing, Spandau Prison was demolished, all records
relating to the assassination were ordered sealed, and the entire
episode was dismissed as a “suicide.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/21/nazi.stamp.ap/index.html

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