Who was "prisoner number seven"?
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Rudolf Hess (spelled in German as Rudolf Heß) (April 26, 1894 - August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany and was Adolf Hitler's deputy as Nazi Party leader. He edited Hitler's book Mein Kampf and later became Hitler's private secretary, eventually rising to deputy party leader and third in leadership of Germany, after Hitler and Hermann Göring. Hess was tried at the Nuremberg Trials after the war for crimes against peace and was given a life sentence. For decades after, he was addressed simply as "prisoner number seven." Following the 1966 release of Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer, he was the sole remaining inmate of Spandau Prison. He was said by the guards to have degenerated mentally and lost most of his memory. In 1987, he died under Four Power imprisonment in West Berlin. His death was ruled a suicide. His son Wolf Rüdiger Hess maintained till his death that he was murdered by the British SAS. Eugene Bird wrote a novel about him titled 'The Loneliest Man in the World'.
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