4. We recommend that further evidence should be
obtained by narco-analysis, and that if the Court decide to proceed
with the Trial, the question should afterwards be reviewed on
psychiatric grounds.
/s/ J. R. REES
M.D., F.R.C.P.
/ s / GEORGE RIDDOCH
M.D., F.R.C.P.
/ s / MORAN
M.D., F.R.C.P.
19 November 1945.
C
20 November 1945
MEMORANDUM TO:
Brigadier General Wm. L. Mitchell,
General Secretary for the International
Military Tribunal.
In response to request of the Tribunal that the Defendant Rudolf
Hess be examined, the undersigned psychiatrists examined Rudolf Hess
on 15 and 19 November 1945 in his cell in the Military Prison in
Nuremberg.
The following examinations were made: physical, neurological, and
psychological.
In addition, documents were studied bearing information
concerning his personal development and career. Reports concerning
the period of his stay in England were scrutinized. The results of
all psychological, special psychometric examinations, and
observations carried out by the prison psychiatrist and his staff
were studied. Information was also derived from the official
interrogation of the defendant on 14 and 16 November 1945.
(1) We find, as a result of our examinations and investigations,
that Rudolf Hess is suffering from hysteria characterized in part by
loss of memory. The nature of this loss of memory is such that it
will not interfere with his comprehension of the proceedings, but it
will interfere with his response to questions relating to his past
and will interfere with his undertaking his defense.
In addition there is a conscious exaggeration of his loss of
memory and a tendency to exploit it to protect himself against
examination.
(2) We consider that the existing hysterical behavior which the
defendant reveals, was initiated as a defense against the
circumstances in which he found himself while in England; that it has
now become in part habitual and that it will continue as long as