TV & VIDEO - March 2, 1989

Evidence suggesting that Nazi deputy leader Rudolf Hess was murdered in Berlin’s Spandau prison in 1987 and did not commit suicide was aired this week in London on a British television program. Abdallah Melaouhi, a Tunisian-born nurse who looked after Hess from 1982 and arrived on the scene 40 minutes after his death, told the TV program “Newsnight” that Hess was too frail to kill himself: “It’s all nonsense. They murdered him.” British military police concluded that Hess, the only prisoner at Spandau since 1963, hanged himself with an electrical cord tied to a window latch, but a British police spokeswoman said authorities were probing the claims that he was murdered.