After Spandau
Bird and his family relocated to Germany permanently. His book about Hess, The Loneliest Man in the World, was published by Secker & Warburg in 1974, in London. In the Epilogue, Bird describes in detail his interrogation and, indirectly, accuses his superiors and brother officers of gross hypocrisy: many of them knew of his labours, he wrote, and some had even read the manuscripts and encouraged him with the project.
After the publication of the book, Bird campaigned to have Hess released from what had effectively become permanent solitary confinement after Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released in 1966.
Hess committed suicide in 1987 in Spandau Prison and Bird publicly voiced his concern that Hess may have been murdered.
Bird died in his Berlin home on October 28, 2005. He was survived by his wife and two daughters and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin.
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