Rudolf Hess - The Doppelganger conspiracy theory disproved

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作者：
McCall, Sherman [1 ]
Kreindl, Gabriele [2 ]
Kastinger, Tamara [2 ]
Mueller, Eva [2 ]
Zahrer, Waltraud [2 ]
Griessner, Ines [2 ]
Dunkelmann, Bettina [2 ]
Tutsch-Bauer, Edith [2 ,3 ]
Neuhuber, Franz [2 ]
Pittman, Phillip R. [1 ,4 ]
Wahl, Rick [1 ]
Lowry, Mark [5 ]
Cemper-Kiesslich, Jan [2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] US Army Retired, Med Corps, Los Angeles, CA USA
[2] Univ Salzburg, Interfac Dept Legal Med, Ignaz Harrer Str 79, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
[3] Univ Salzburg, CAMAS Ctr Archaeometry & Appl Mol Archaeol Salzbu, Salzburg, Austria
[4] US Army, Med Res Inst Infect Dis, USAMRIID MED, 1425 Porter St, Ft Detrick, MD 21702 USA
[5] US Army Reserve, Med Corps, Los Angeles, CA USA
来源：
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL-GENETICS | 2019年 / 40卷
关键词：
Rudolf Hess; Nuremberg trials; World War II; Third Reich; Spandau prison; War criminal; War crimes; Conspiracy theory; DNA identification; SKELETAL REMAINS; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; IDENTIFICATION; KING; EXTRACTION;
D O I：
10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.01.004
中图分类号：
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号：
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要：
The Deputy Fuhrer 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 Doppelganger Theory.
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