HESS'S STORY
BELIEVED BY DOCTORS
"DELIBERATE SIMULATION" (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Bee. 1.15 p.m. NUREMBERG, Nov. 30. A British prosecution lawyer, commenting on Hess's statement, said: "It is evident that he has completely recovered or is quite mad. The trial will show which it is."
The lawyer added that Hess had made it quite unsafe for anybody to refuse to try him.
The psychiatrist, Major Kelly, and the senior medical officer of the security guard expressed the opinion that Hess's action was a return to the typical hysterical personality which he had constantly manifested.
His amnesia was deliberate simulation. Years of practice and purposeful forgetting in England had undoubtedly made him at present unable to recall certain events of the past, ■but it was -obvious that he had been using amnesia as a defence. A French prosecutor declared that he had always been convinced that Hess was pretending and had never thought him mad.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 132, 1 December 1945, Page 8
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153HESS'S STORY Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 132, 1 December 1945, Page 8
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