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Appeal for Release of Rudolf Hess from Spandau Voiced in Britain

February 13, 1967
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Appeals were voiced in the House of Lords yesterday for the British Government to urge Soviet Prime Minister Alexei N. Kosygin, now visiting this country, to agree to the release of Rudolf Hess, the only defendant at the Nuremberg trials still incarcerated at Spandau Prison, in West Berlin.

Lord Russell said he believed Russia was the only one of the four major allied powers who wanted to keep the former Nazi leader in prison, and asked what steps had been taken to persuade that country to change its mind.

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