with the charges against him. He answers questions
rapidly and to the point. His speech is coherent, his thoughts formed
with precision and correctness and they are accompanied by sufficient
emotionally expressive movements. Also, there is no kind of evidence
of paralogism. It should also be noted here, that the present
psychological examination, which was conducted by Lieutenant Gilbert,
Ph. D., bears out the testimony that the intelligence of Hess is
normal and in some instances above the average. His movements are
natural and not forced.
He has expressed no delirious fancies nor does he give any
delirious explanation for the painful sensation in his stomach or the
loss of memory, as was previously attested to by Doctor Rees, namely,
when Hess ascribed them to poisoning. At the present time, to the
question about the reason for his painful sensations and the loss of
memory, Hess answers that this is for the doctors to know. According
to his own assertions, he can remember almost nothing of his former
life. The gaps in Hess' memory are ascertained only on the basis of
the subjective changing of his testimony about his inability to
remember this or that person or event given at different times. What
he knows at the present time is, in his own words, what he allegedly
learned only recently from the information of those around him and
the films which have been shown him.
On 14 November Hess refused the injection of narcotics which were
offered for the purpose of making an analysis of his psychological
condition. On 15 November, in answer to Professor Delay's offer, he
definitely and firmly refused narcosis and explained to him that, in
general, he would take all measures to cure his amnesia only upon
completion of the Trial.
All that has been exposed above, we are convinced, permits of the
interpretation that the deviation from the norm in the behavior of
Hess takes the following forms:
1. In the psychological personality of Hess there are no changes
typical of the progressive schizophrenic disease, and therefore the
delusions, from which he suffered periodically while in England,
cannot be considered as manifestations of a schizophrenic paranoia,
and must be recognized as the expression of a psychogenic paranoic
reaction, that is, the psychologically comprehensible reaction of an
unstable (psychologically) personality to the situation (the failure
of his mission, arrest, and incarceration). Such an interpretation of
the delirious statements of Hess in England is bespoken by their
disappearance, appearance, and repeated disappearance depending on
external circumstances which affected the mental state of Hess.
2. The loss of memory by Hess is not the result of some kind of
mental disease but represents hysterical amnesia, the basis of which
is a subconscious inclination toward self-defense as well as a delib-