LONDON: The London ‘Evening Star’ said Rudolf Hess, the day France was invaded, broke down and cried when he heard over the radio that the Allies had made a landing in Normandy. Hess is living in a bungalow “somewhere in England” and is at last completely disillusioned after stubbornly maintaining that an invasion was impossible, the paper says. “When Eisenhower overran France, Hess sank into a strange apathy. He would go for days without speaking and hardly ate his rations. Hess once said, ‘Germany is beaten forever’. The plot against Hitler was another shock. He did not know which side to take — that of the generals for wishing to save life by making peace or that of Hitler and Himmler for wanting to save Nazism. Hess is now anti-Himmler, who, he says, has betrayed Hitler.”

[Meanwhile, as reported from Paris,] The Paris Radio said today [Nov 26], at least 29 men were killed and 20 wounded, when a bomb explosion yesterday demolished a mansion in Vaucluse department, where 159 men of the “Republican Security Forces” were assembled. The radio said first results of the official enquiry showed that the building had already been the scene of an armoured attack yesterday evening…

Published in Dawn, November 27th, 2019