2. Is the defendant sane or not, and on this last issue the Tribunal
wishes to be advised whether the defendant is of sufficient intellect to
comprehend the course of the proceedings of the Trial so as to make a
proper defense, to challenge a witness to whom he might wish to object
and to understand the details of the evidence.
3. The examiners have presented their reports to the Tribunal in the
form which commends itself to them. It is directed that copies of the
reports be furnished to each of the Chief Prosecutors and to Defense
Counsel. The Tribunal will hear argument by the Prosecution and by
Defense Counsel on the issues presented by the reports on Friday, 30
November at 4 P.M.
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL
/s/ GEOFFREY LAWRENCE
President
Dated at Nuremberg, Germany, this
24th day of November 1945.
REPORT OF COMMISSION TO EXAMINE
DEFENDANT HESS[17]
A
To the International Military Tribunal:
In pursuance of the assignment by the Tribunal, we, the medical experts
of the Soviet Delegation, together with the physicians of the English
Delegation and in the presence of one representative of the American
Medical Delegation, have examined Rudolf Hess and made a report on our
examination of Mr. Hess together with our conclusions and interpretation
of the behavior of Mr. Hess.
The statement of the general conclusions has been signed only by the
physicians of the Soviet Delegation and by Professor Delay, the medical
expert of the French Delegation.
Attachments: I. Conclusions, and
II. Report on the examination of Mr. Hess.
/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.