Bonn - Ten years after the last inmate of Berlin's Spandau prison died and amid fresh allegations of a British intelligence plot to lure him to Scotland in 1941, the late Rudolf Hess is expected to inspire clashes between neo-Nazis and left-wing demonstrators this weekend.
While German police and neo-fascists play a game of cat and mouse over the Hess commemoration, German and Scandinavian right-wing militants are to gather in the Danish town of Roskilde today to pay tribute to the man they revere as a martyr and hero, Hitler's deputy who died a lonely death 10 years ago tomorrow. Rudolf Hess, A Fool's Errand, published last month by the historian Rainer Schmidt, argues that the famous parachute drop from a flaming Messerschmitt onto farmland south of Glasgow in May 1941 was carefully prepared by British intelligence through forged correspondence with Hess and his associates.