European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 of a the stars and stripes thursday. August 20.19b7 Hess remained mystery even to guards byjoe Mapother staff writer the americans were guarding West Berlin s Spandau prison when Rudolf Hess 93. Died late monday afternoon la is double Lulai his . Military guard knew Mun ure than the Public did about the Formell Kaputy fuehrer. Occasional Grainy secret and terse Allied Proi comprise much or what the Public barred about Hess and the six other in males All now dead who served sentences in the prison since it was opened As an Allied confinement Center in 1947. His death removes one of two areas where the americans soviets French and British cooperate on a four Power basis. A Telephone line at Spandau offered Western allies a valuable direct link to the soviets when the Berlin Wall was built in i96i. Closing Spandau will mean the air safety Center is the Only functioning four Power Agency in Berlin Allied officials in Berlin declined tuesday to speculate on what the announced closing of the jail will mean the City s four Power status. Obviously the russian Promice is going to be that much less Jaq an offi Cial with the . . The necessity of Clearing  on the prison with Jet four Powers re vented him  the official said. The Mokary guards rotated monthly among aft four Allied occupying Powers were confined to the outer Wall of the111 year old prison according to a for Mer . Commandant at the prison. Civilian warders were the ones who had direct Contact to Hess said former army it. Col. Eugene k. Bird. A unit of 40 soldiers drawn from the infantry units in Berlin pulled on month of duty at a time a the prison. Guards were not allowed to sit Down using their two hour shift nor were any Contact with Hess Birdsail Bird s connector wow Panda goes Back to 1947 Whent Asib ant he was the first . Guan the Allied prison. In 1964hei one of the four prison Dir ribs. He was relieved of his duties Jajeh i As a result of his plan to while Mook based on hundreds of hours Tunson cell interviews with Hess. Thess lost his identity when he Jgr convicted of conspiracy an against peace by the International if itary tribunal at Nuernberg in 1946.he became prisoner no 7. The regulations state that they the original seven Spandau inmates arc never to be called by their name. Birdsail in an interview earlier this year. It was a Taw that was broken Many  the number was painted on the Back of he jackets that the prisoners wore and on the right knee of their trousers. Hess would always stand up at Atten Tion when i would come into his cell Click his heels and Bow Bird said. Rudolf Hess was always very very withdrawn from the very beginning a terribly difficult Man to get to know. When i was there As governor it t me two years to get beyond ques Ujj weather  welfare and Hess was a compjjuflps6 much so thai did at Firsti Jubia Contact with prisoner n jpkl7 Afler the 1966 re k ase com a architect Albert Speer Hitler youth Leader Baldur Schirach. Bird said he gained Hess Mai dance. The release of the two inmates marked beginning of Hess tenure As the sole in a prison that held 600 inmates jes took it Over. Nearly two decades  became a key argument uni Crous people and governments scene muss release on humanitarian grounds. Bird was among those seeking release. He sought Hess Freedom no Only on humanitarian grounds but out of he fear that if Hess died in prison i would make him a Martyr to right Wing extremists. Thousands of tellers Man from american nazi party members buttressed his fear. Bird said. The United states the British and the French have been trying to close Down the place for years Bird said. But the russians have said no. When spacer and von Schirach were released in 1966, we All expected that Rudolf is would  Alto. Even the  there a Spandau Sai  will never race to remain in open Tor one single prisoner Bird Hess health both mental and physical has been an Issue since i spectacular High to Scotland in 1941. Allegedly he was seeking to strike a peace treaty with Britain so Hal Germany would not have � wage War on two fronts. But that too is shrouded in mystery. Rudolf Hess lived in the past. Time stood still for him since 1941, Bird said the former commandant said he once asked Hess about his feelings toward hit Ler As they were traversing inc 267 Steps Ihal it took to make one circuit around the outside exercise area. Hess replied i once served under the greatest Man who was Ever bom under the  when Bird asked him about the Exier Ilion of jews under Hitler Hesi a bit before answering thai he was sol Huj i was not Here durin that time. To Jake part in the wan see conference1 o1 -1 is i lion was agreed on " by the 1960s, doctors at Spandau were predicting thai Hess would Only live afew More years. Bird said. Since that time at least one of those doctors has died. I would say about fiver six of the warders have died. A couple of directors have died but Hess is still living Bird said earlier this year. Glass from Page 1 Farouk Al Sharaa. All i want to do now is get Home see my wife and  the Tail dark haired reporter originally from los Angeles appeared tired but in Good shape. Hours earlier he had fled from the South Beirut neighbourhood of Birel Abed a stronghold of pro Ira Nian shiite moslem militants. In an interview from Damascus Glass told Abc news his captors had recently become More severe with him shortening his Chain so he could t get near the window shutters. Class said he secretly was Able to stretch his wrist and ankle chains and slip them on and off. When he escaped there were two guards. Glass sneaked through the shutters to a Balcony and Hope that he could jump to another Balcony or apartment he said. I hat was t to Isbir. I would have had to jump about seven stories if i wanted to gel to the ground he said. So i came through another door of the Balcony into the Kolchen into the Central corridor of the apartment and out the front door. There was a key in one of the locks. There were three locks on the front door two of them were Bolt locks which t could slide and one had a key which i had to turn three times very quietly because the bedroom of the guards was right next to the front door and 1 could still hear them snoring he said. I opened the door finally very quietly Slid out look the key Wilh me locked them in and ran Dow the seven flights of stairs and out into the  Glass on leave of absence from Abc to research a Book on Lebanon was kidnapped june 17 with Al Osseiran son of Lebanon s defense minister and his bodyguard Driver by 14 gunmen in South Beirut. The two lebanese were freed after a week. But in kidnappers who identified themselves As members of the previously unknown organization for the people s defense kept Glass. Syrian and lebanese intelligence agencies believe the Tacsion is part of the iranian backed fundamentalist Hezbollah or party of god a militant shiite move ment believed to hold Many of the 25 other foreigner missing in Lebanon. In a videotape released july 17, a Haggard Glass read a statement saying he spied for the Cia. He Slid tuesday that he was forced to read in at gunpoint mrs. Glass said in London her husband told her by Telephone thai he was disappointed to hear it suggested that he was allowed 10 escape it seems Odd that they would Bolher to put him up there seven floors if they intended him to escape she said. You think they would put him on the second or third floor  said he told her he had no Contact with other hostages. In Santa Barbara calif., where president Reagan i vacationing Deputy while House Proa Secretary Les lie Arshel said we Are delighted that Iii american citizen is now free. At the same Lime the . Govern ment and people continue to be deeply concerned Over the Fate of the remaining hostages held in Lebanon including eight  the eight include Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press who was seized on March 16,1985, and is the longest held. Hess from Page 1 was asked to comment in Light of the fact that american soldiers were on guard. He said that by agreement among the allies the British Are the official  Anderson w. Purdon the British diplomatic spokesman said in a statement tuesday a preliminary investigation indicates that Rudolf Hess attempted to take his own life on the afternoon of aug. 17, Hess As he was accustomed to do went escorted by a prison warder to sit in a Small cot Tage in the Garden of the prison. On looking into the cottage a few minute Slater the warder found Hess with an electrical Cord around his neck. Resuscitation measures were taken and heu was transported to the British military Hospital. After further attempts to revive Hess he was pronounced dead at 16 10 hours. Whether this suicide at tempt was the actual cause of Tath is the subject of a continuing investigation including a thorough  a British pathologist was conducting an autopsy at the military Hospital. 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