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Documentary drama looking at Rudolph Hess at the Nuremberg trials, where he claimed not to remember his Nazi past and was seemingly suffering from paranoid delusions.

After his bizarre flight to Scotland in 1941 to offer peace to Britain, Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, was declared insane by the Fuhrer.

At Nuremberg, Hess's fitness for trial was at the centre of his case, as he claimed not to remember his Nazi past and was seemingly suffering from paranoid delusions.

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