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Apollo wrote:One of the important things to remember when considering 'accounts' of Hess's arrival in Scotland, and subsequent movements, is that many of the writers have personal agendas, ranging from potential security-based 'mis-information' that would have been circulated at the time (to prevent sympathisers mounting a rescue attempt, or perhaps simple murder by any vigilante minded person/group), to self-promotion and profit by reporters, journalists or writers. .
Apollo wrote:Personally, I have to question the voracity of a story that claims reporters on a farm had to go and buy a new pitchfork and distress it to make it look used.
Apollo wrote:That quote does differ a little from the original post about the pitchfork, and suggests McLean never saw the item in question, which was nothing more than a sham that never saw Mclean or Hess, but was (unsurprisingly?) snatched up by the American as a 'false icon'.
I wonder what Ms Wilson expected McLean to do with the injured Hess who wasn't going anywhere, either by his own desire, or as a result of broken
ankle and injured back?
Her story also disagrees with that of McLean at the time, in which he states the pitchfork was the only item he had to hand on the farm (and was later filmed with), after he left his cottage and saw a parachutist floating down into his field after the aircraft crashed. McLean also noted that the flyer refused the tea, but did accept a drink of water.
Ms Wilson didn't by any chance identify the pitchfork museum, as in public or private?
(I'm wimping out, and just noting existing tales, and not offering support for or against any. I just want to dig and learn more).
Field Marshall Shug wrote:On his first night I think he slept at the Maryhill barracks and made a big deal about not eating meat and did some yoga-style exercises. But by Nuremburg, he was chomping on meat and couldn't have cared less about th alternative lifestyle which Hess followed in Germany.
Apollo wrote:Funnily enough, the drivel about the 'missing' bullet wound was produced by yet another author with a book to publicise and sell to make a buck out of the event, and was based only his own 'expert' suppositions, which he strangely, was unable to later produce any records to validate:
More imaginative even than the occult explanation of the Hess mission is the theory that the real Rudolf Hess was replaced with a double, and that the man who died at Spandau in 1987 was not the Deputy Fuhrer at all. The most celebrated proponent of the so-called doppelganger theory is Dr Hugh Thomas, a former army surgeon who examined Hess in September 1973 while attached to the British Military Hospital in Berlin. The publication of his book The Murder of Rudolf Hess in 1979 prompted questions in the House of Commons and the Bundestag, and generated further controversy in 1988 when it appeared in revised form under the title Hess: A Tale of Two Murders. Thomas relied on his own medical expertise. During the First World War Hess was known to have been wounded twice: once by shrapnel in June 1916, followed by a more serious chest wound caused by a rifle bullet on the Romanian front in July 1917. According to Thomas, the 'major scars on his chest and back' caused by both wounds should have been highly visible even after 60 years, yet were not recorded by any one of the 58 doctors who examined Hess after 1941. Thomas was unable to locate any detailed contemporary medical notes, but made a number of assumptions which hypothesised extensive tissue damage and a large exit wound on the back. Thomas also accepted muddled assertions that Hess had been treated by the renowned chest surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch, whose technique for treating gunshot wounds usually entailed the partial removal of a rib. The fact that Hess refused to see his wife and son until 1969 was also cited as further evidence.
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