I’ve always called him my go-to WWI & WWII expert and this weekend he was on form.
Some how we got talking about Spandau #7. His flight to Scotland, his imprisonment and his post-mortem.
Apparently it was a Welsh doctor who did the first PM and he concluded (from knowledge of the subject’s known previous wounds) that the cadaver was NOT whom every one said he was.
What a wascally wabbit whole to fall down !
Me (being me) had to investigate this Con Theory a bit deeper and I came up with the image above.
So many parallels.
SIB is the UK Military Police version of the Civilian Police CID. I was head-hunted to join this branch but got married and told them NO!
There may be a large dollop of truth in the C.Theo. Especially as a second post-mortem was ordered by the son of the prisoner.
Who knows?
I never could resist a Mystery of History
:o)