- WUNSIEDEL, Germany--Despite
attempts by German authorities to obstruct a commemoration for murdered
prisoner of conscience Rudolf Hess, thousands from all over Europe gathered
Saturday to pay homage to Adolf Hitler's deputy.
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- Approximately 5,500 persons--predominantly young people--
from all over Europe came on Sunday, August 17 to call attention to the
criminal injustice of Hess' murder and its subsequent cover-up. Hess was
strangled to death in 1987 by members of the British secret services in
collusion with the Americans.
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- Delegations from Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Bulgaria, Italy,
Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Slovakia, the
Czech Republic and other European countries marched in quiet, disciplined
dignity through the small Franconian town.
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- At a rally preceding the march, attorney Jürgen
Rieger and other representatives of the foreign delegations called attention
to the fate of Rudolf Hess, who was murdered on August 17, 1987. In their
presentations they exposed the lies, historical falsification and Illogic
that the man who had flown to Britain in a heroic attempt to stop the madness
of World War II was somehow a "war criminal" who had committed
"crimes against humanity."
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- Except for a few frustrated anti-Nazis shouting the usual
obscenities, a poignant silence fell over the town. Many local residents,
especially those of an older generation, stood along the pavement with
tears in their eyes as the huge procession slowly passed by.
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