2. His mental conditions are of a mixed type. He is an unstable person,
which in technical terms is called a psychopathic personality. The data
concerning his illness during the period of the last four years
submitted by one of us who had him under observation in England, show
that he had a delusion of being poisoned and other similar paranoic
notions.
Partly as a reaction to the failure of his mission there, the abnormal
manifestations increased and led to attempts at suicide.
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.