Hess Taken Seriously By The Allies As A Defector

To me they treated Hess like the loon he actually was and deserved to be treated like! BTW I doubt it was suicide at the end! What if he was taken/turned as a defector with valuable information! Could he even have been sent back to The Reich?
 
To me they treated Hess like the loon he actually was and deserved to be treated like! BTW I doubt it was suicide at the end! What if he was taken/turned as a defector with valuable information!

How do you know that he wasn't thoroughly milked for any valuable information he may have had?

As to "turned", no. Even a dictator having just 1% of the paranoia Hitler was afflicted with, would never consider Hess reliable any more.

Could he even have been sent back to The Reich?

To do what? to serve the BCE's interests as a turncoat? No, see above.

The one actual way the British might "take him seriously" would have been considering what was probably his proposal: peace talks with Germany. Even in the absolutely unlikely circumstance that the British were interested, they'd sideline such an outsider anyway and rely on traditional means (read embassies in Switzerland) to contact the Germans back.
 
... the good ol' conspiracy: Was it really Hess in Spandau? The one in Spandau did NOT have a bullet wound in the chest. Hess was severely wounded in WWI. So?

Hess was trying to use his old pre-war contacts as he clearly saw that Churchill et al would not be interested in talks with Germany. Maybe others would? those were the pro-Nazi (not necessarily Nazi, like Mossley. There is a difference there).

Maybe he didn't understand British parliamentary systems, but he was not a looney.
 
Hitler had given orders to have Hess shot immediately if he was ever somehow captured.

He and Goebbels were the most fanatical members of Hitler's Inner Circle, I have trouble imagining him 'turning.' IF the English somehow managed it they would have him on the radio speaking in German about Hitler's madness and the need to overthrow him.

I don't see it accomplishing much but by the end of the war he will not stand trial as he deserves and will probably be allowed to retire to West Germany. A MUCH better fate than he deserved.
 
One of my old history teachers once guarded him (I think he said it was Hess.) If only I had the foresight to ask him about a gargantuan British/Western European conspiracy about Hess' real wareabouts. Alas...
 
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