Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with joy.
For a moment, Hess stared at Hess. The man in the newsreel, young and strapping, screamed "Sieg Heil!" The real man, haggard and old, sank back into his seat. Psychiatrists watched him closely.
The Nürnberg of 1934 faded from the screen...
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