Nazi Murder Mysteries

The dark and disturbing tale of the skeleton of an unknown woman found in a hollowed-out tree in a Birmingham woodland. Delving deep into the mystery, the links between the woman in the tree and Nazi spy rings operating in Britain's industrial heartland are explored. While it appears both the remains and police files have vanished from the archives, interviews from those connected to the case and facial reconstruction experts piece the evidence together to finally put a face to the mysterious woman in the tree.

In 1946, Hermann Goering, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany, was sentenced to death by hanging at the Allied court in Nuremberg. Preparations were made for his execution the next day, but in a final act of defiance, Goering cheated the hangman by deciding his own fate. His suicide shocked the Allies. But it also posed a question, how did he manage to get hold of a cyanide capsule in a heavily guarded maximum-security prison? Had he carried it with him the whole time, concealing it from the extensive and thorough checks carried out by the prison guards? Or had he received help from the very people who were supposed to be guarding him?

The theories, conspiracies and facts relating to Rudolf Hess's dramatic flight to Scotland in 1941 and his subsequent death in Spandau prison.