Posted on 04/07/2012 3:59:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rudolph Hess believed the Jews had hypnotised Winston Curchill into taking a negative stance towards Nazi Germany, according to the Deputy Nazi leader's recently discovered psychiatric records. Notes written by Dr Henry Dicks, one of the Army psychiatrists who monitored Hess while he was a prisoner in Britain, detail his bizarre convictions. Hess believed Churchill had been 'mesmerised' by evil forces who were trying to kill him because he was the 'only person who knew of their secret psychic powers'.
Professor Daniel Pick, a historian and psychoanalyst from Birkbeck College, University of London, studied Dr Dicks' notes for a new book The pursuit of the Nazi mind - Hitler, Hess and the analysts which will be release in June.
He told the Daily Telegraph: 'When people told him about the concentration camps, for example, Hess was reported to have argued that if atrocities existed it must be because the Jews had hypnotised the Germans to make them behave so cruelly.'
Hess is said to have worshipped Hitler and was made his deputy in 1933.
Like Goebbels, he was privately distressed by the war with the United Kingdom and secretly hoped that Britain would accept Germany as an ally.
The claims are detailed in a new book by Professor Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind In 1941 he flew to Scotland, his plane crashed but he parachuted into the country, landing near Glasgow, on an apparent
He was captured and spoke to Churchill at Ditchley Park. Churchill initially sent him to the Tower of London, making him the last prisoner to be held in the 900-year-old fortress. Hess was detained by the British for the remainder of the war.
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"The Murder of Rudolf Hess" - W. Hugh Thomas
Thomas was a doctor who examined Hess in the mid-70's.
Why not? I’m hypnotized by the Jewish scriptures.
Even among a collection of the world’s most dangerous delusional demagogues since Mohammad, Hess was a delusional standout.
A perfect “Aryan” specimen indeed.
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