After that, his father was denounced by the Nazi government as "mentally ill", and this led his mother to leave Munich and take her son to live at the family's house in the country, at Bad Oberdorf, a small spa village in the Allgäu Alps.
On 3 June 1947, Hess's mother was arrested by Allied forces, together with all the wives of the other Germans convicted at Nuremberg, and she was interned at Augsburg-Göggingen camp.
[1] Hess gained prominence for criticising an investigation into his father's alleged suicide while serving a life sentence in Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Hess maintained that the investigation was a cover-up, and that the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) had murdered him.
Wolf Rüdiger Hess and his father's lawyer, Alfred Seidl, arranged their own autopsy.