In addition to the above mentioned manifestations he
has noticeable hysterical tendencies which caused a development of
various symptoms, primarily, of amnesia that lasted from November
1943 to June of 1944 and resisted all attempts to be cured.
The amnesia symptom may disappear with changing circumstances.
The second period of amnesia started in February of 1945 and has
lasted up through the present.
3. At present, he is not insane in the strict sense of the word.
His amnesia does not prevent him completely from understanding what
is going on around him but it will interfere with his ability to
conduct his defense and to understand details of the past which would
appear as factual data.
4. To clarify the situation we recommend that a narco-analysis be
performed on him and, if the Court decides to submit him to trial,
the problem should be subsequently re-examined from a psychiatric
point of view.
The conclusion reached on November 14 by the physicians of the
British Delegation, Lord Moran, Dr. T. Rees and Dr. G. Riddoch, and
the physicians of the Soviet Delegation, Professors Krasnushkin,
Sepp, and Kurshakov, was also arrived at on 15 November by the
representative of the French Delegation, Professor Jean Delay.
After an examination of Mr. Hess which took place on 15 November
1945, the undersigned Professors and experts of the Soviet
Delegation, Krasnushkin, Sepp and Kurshakov, and Professor Jean
Delay, the expert from the French Delegation, have agreed on the
following statement:
Mr. Hess categorically refused to be submitted to narco-analysis
and resisted all other procedures intended to effect a cure of his
amnesia, and stated that he would agree to undergo treatment only
after the trial. The behavior of Mr. Hess makes it impossible to
apply the methods suggested in Paragraph 4 of the report of 14
November and to follow the suggestion of that Paragraph in present
form.
/ s / KRASNUSHKIN
Doctor of Medicine
/s/ E. SEPP
Honorary Scientist, Regular Member
of the Academy of Medicine
/ s / KURSHAKOV
Doctor of Medicine, Chief Therapeutist of
the Commissariat of Health of the U.S.S.R.
/ s / JEAN DELAY
Professor, School of Medicine in Paris.
16 November 1945