Rudolf Hess: Difference between revisions

* In the real world, Hess was captured in March 1941 after his plane crashed in [[Scotland]] during an unauthorised mission to make peace with Britain before Germany invaded the [[Soviet Union]]. While ''Heart of TARDIS'' briefly alludes to this by mentioning his plane, the exact details of Hess's capture within the ''[[Doctor Who universe|Doctor Who]]''[[Doctor Who universe| universe]] have yet to be revealed.

* Originally, the character [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] from ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' was to be named "Hess." However, around this time (August 1987), the Soviet Union government had announced that they were no longer blocking the release of Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess on humanitarian grounds, an announcement closely followed by the 93-year-old Hess' death by apparent [[suicide]] at Spandau Prison in Berlin, West Germany. These events forced a name change to Kane. "Kane" came about because it also had four letters, which allowed the [[script editor]], [[Andrew Cartmel]], to easily replace "Hess" with "Kane" in the scripts. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Fire and Ice]]'')