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* 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'' universe]] have yet to be revealed. | * 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'' universe]] have yet to be revealed. | ||
* Rudolf Hess was among the senior Nazis tried at the [[Nuremberg trials]]. He was found guilty on | * Rudolf Hess was among the senior Nazis tried at the [[Nuremberg trials]]. He was found guilty on two of the four charges against him and sentenced to life imprisonment. While the Nuremberg trials have been mentioned in the DWU, Hess has not been mentioned to have been a defendant. ''Heart of TARDIS'' does, however, mention Hess's imprisonment at Spandau. | ||
* Originally, the character [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] from {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}} 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 (documentary)|Fire and Ice]]'') | * Originally, the character [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]] from {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}} 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 (documentary)|Fire and Ice]]'') | ||
