TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Rudolf Hess - The Doppelgänger conspiracy theory disproved
JO  - Forensic science international: genetics
A1  - McCall, Sherman
A1  - Kreindl, Gabriele
A1  - Kastinger, Tamara
A1  - Müller, Eva
A1  - Zahrer, Waltraud
A1  - Grießner, Ines
A1  - Dunkelmann, Bettina
A1  - Tutsch-Bauer, Edith
A1  - Neuhuber, Franz
A1  - Pittman, Phillip R.
A1  - Wahl, Rick
A1  - Lowry, Mark
A1  - Cemper-Kiesslich, Jan
SP  - 18
EP  - 22
VL  - 40
IS  - 
N2  - The Deputy Führer of the Third Reich Rudolf Hess was captured after a controversial flight to Scotland in 1941. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. He was detained in Berlin's Spandau Prison under the official security designation 'Spandau #7.' Early doubts arose about the true identity of prisoner 'Spandau #7.' This evolved to a frequently espoused conspiracy theory that prisoner 'Spandau #7' was an imposter and not Rudolf Hess. After Hess's reputed 1987 suicide, the family grave became a Neo-Nazi pilgrimage site. In 2011, the grave was abandoned and the family remains cremated. Here we report the forensic DNA analysis of the only known extant DNA sample from prisoner 'Spandau #7' and a match to the Hess male line, thereby refuting the Doppelgänger Theory.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1872-4973
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.01.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -