Bones of Hitler deputy exhumed, burned

BERLIN (AP) — The bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, were exhumed under cover of darkness, burned and secretly scattered at sea, a cemetery administrator in the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel said Thursday.

Workers crept in before dawn on Wednesday — the 67th anniversary of a failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler's life — to remove Hess' remains from his family's grave, cremate and disperse them, Fabel said.

"The grave is now empty," Fabel said. "The bones are gone," he told The Associated Press.

Hess was captured in 1941 when he parachuted into Scotland saying he wanted to negotiate peace between Britain and Germany.

The attempt was denounced by …