European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday August 18,1987 sixth born sep Tuple a 20-ounce girl Dies Liverpool England a one of Brit Ain s six surviving sept plets died monday morning and the survival chances of he remain ing five babies an less than 50 percent their doctor said. Or. Richard Cooke speaking in a British broadcasting corp. Television interview said one of the babies deteriorated badly and the other five tiny infants three girls and 10 boys were doing better in Liverpool Gen eral Hospital s intensive care neonatal unit but still face a struggle to survive he said. A Mersey regional health authority spokes Man identified the baby who died As Leah the sixth bom who weighed i Pound 4 ounces. The cause of death was not released. Britain s first sep Tuple born 15 weeks pre mature were delivered during a seven minute period saturday in Liverpool in Northwestern England. One of them a boy weighing i Pound died 25 minutes after the caesarean delivery. Hess from Page 1 in Bavaria in i923. In prison hitter dictated his Politi Cal tract main Kampor to Hess. After their release in 1925, Hess became Hitler s personal Secretary. In 1933, after Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany Hess was Given ministerial rank and named Deputy fuehrer. Hess was said to have inspired a part of the nazi ideology the claim that Germany needed to expand its territory to provide space for All germans. The reasons for his 1941 flight to Britain remain unclear. Hess said he flew to England without Hitler s knowl Edge to arrange a separate peace treaty under which Germany would be Given a free hand in Europe while Britain s colonial Empire would be left untouched. But soviet and British prosecutors at the Nuernberg War crimes trials said they suspected Hess Mission was to Settle with the British so Hitler would have just one front to Deal with when his forces attacked the soviet Union. Hitler denounced Hess As a madman. In 1946. Hess was sentenced in Nuernberg to life imprison for plotting against world peace and plan Ning an aggressive War. On Oci. 1, 1946. He was transferred to Spandau. The red Brick prison on the outskirts of Berlin was built to accommodate 600 prisoners. Initially six other nazi leaders also served time a Spandau. They were Albert Speer adm. Erich Raeder economics minister Wal her Funk. Foreign minister Konstantin von Neurath Hitler youth chief Baldur von Schirach and adm. Karl Donitz. Raeder and Funk got life sentences but were freed Early for health reasons both dying in i960. Von Neu Rath served eight years and died in 1956. Von Schirach and Speer both served out 20-year sentences. Von Schirach died in 1974 and Speer in 1961. Doenitz served 10 years and died in 1980. By 1966, Hesi was the Only prisoner left at Spandau. The allies who took monthly turns guarding nets released few details of Hess years in prison. He was never seen in Public although secretly taken photo graphs appeared occasionally in West German newspapers and magazines. Hess also was permitted to write a letter a month and to watch television and read newspapers censored of any references to the third Reich unlit the end Hess maintained his innocence and did not renounce his past As a nazi Leader. Hess also is survived by his wife. Use. . Warship moving through persian Gulf Manama Bahrain
