Was that really Hess in Spandau Prison? If it wasn't, who was he?

Question

The real Hess was shot through the chest in WWI while leading an attack. Even if the scars of this disappeared, a high velocity rifle bullet leaves a permanent soft tissue displacement track along its path through the body visible on X-rays. A British physician who treated "Hess" during one of the months when it was the UK's turn to guard the prison states that neither scars nor soft tissue displacement were present. The time elapsed between the takeoff of Hess and his crash in Scotland was one and one half hours longer than an ME 110 could remain in the air. Hess appeared not to know the other defendants at Nuremburg, and acted strangely. He refused to see relatives for a year and a half, and his letters contained no reference to family members that a relative had not first written to him. Was this man a double, forced into the role of Hess, possibly by threats to his family? Was the man in Spandau murdered by the Russians, or did he hang himself?

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/rudolph.htm

Answer 1

The flight question was very well answered by the first poster.  As for was it Hess - obviously not when you take into account the evidence you already posted as well as the fact the height and other not-mentioned physical attributes did not match.  So who was it - my guess some terminally ill Brit who served in WW 2 who wanted to preserve the memory of that drunk Churchill by helping cover up the lies of the Brits and their refusal to accept a peace proposal from Hitler that would have Hitler abandon his victories in the west to gain a free hand in the east.  Churchill hated Germany so much and did not want a Germany more powerful then Brit that he preferred to turn down a VERY GOOD PEACE and enlarge the war to a world war that did not need to happen.

Answer 2

I will only answer the ME110 part. It was an hour too many if the plane had to do the trip and back. As this was a one way trip there was enough petrol for that. The range for a ME 110 was 1,305 miles (2,100 km) with maximum internal fuel. It's not for nothing that the ME110 is called a long range plane.

Answer 3

I knew a British military doctor, who was with Hess in Spandau.  (like Hess, he is dead now).  Among other things he claimed to have been the only man who ever made Hess laugh.  (Hess asked if penicillin was capable of treating syphilis: - my friend replied "Yes, but that shouldn' t be of much concern to you!" )

He was quite clear that it was Hess, and he had a lot of contact with him.  He was also insistent that high velocity rifle rounds can do the most unlikely things, and that the medical argument against Hess being 'Hess',  was wrong.

One thing he did tell me, was that Hess, although an eccentric who brought his own medical kit to Britain filled with 'Yak dung balls' or similar quack remedies, was more or less sane while he was held in Wales.   After they took him to the South Coast however, there was a big deterioration in his condition, and it seems likely he was given a lot of Scopalamine or something similar while he was there.