The publication of what is said to be a suicide note written “a few minutes before my death” by Hitler's former deputy appears to add weight to claims that it had actually been penned nearly 20 years before when he was seriously ill.
Photographs of the “summer house” in the ground of Spandau Prison where the 93-year-old died – and the electrical cord he was said to have used to take his own life – seem to deepen the mystery even further.
Conspiracy theories have long suggested that he was murdered and the evidence covered up amid fears he was on the brink of being released – and might disclose embarrassing secrets about his time in British captivity.
His son Wolf Hess has claimed that the UK, US and France - who had long said they were prepared to consent to his release were it not for a Soviet veto - feared a new mood of openness in Gorbachev's Kremlin would call their bluff.
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