Let's be abundantly clear: we are not saying Rudolf Hess is in any way a hero, someone to admire, or that he should be exonerated. Hess was a Nazi. There is no such thing as a good Nazi. Hess was ...

Moves to free Hess have been supported by former United States Attorney General Francis Biddle who had himself passed judgment on the Nazi at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 1946. Mr.

Rudolf Hess died in 1987. Britain tried in vain to allow Hitler's deputy to be freed after 30 years in jail for war crimes, according to newly released secret files.