The Psychiatrist and Rudolf Hess
How a British psychiatrist examined the deputy Nazi leader after his flight to Scotland in 1941.
In 1941, the deputy fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, flew out of Nazi Germany and landed in Scotland.
Keen to study the psychology of the Nazi leadership, the British government sent a psychiatrist called Henry Dicks to examine Hess at a safe house in Surrey.
Professor Daniel Pick, author of "The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind", retraces the encounter using Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archive recordings and Dr Dicks' personal papers.
The programme is adapted from "The Psychiatrist and the Deputy Fuhrer", first broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
(Photo: Rudolf Hess, German politician and wartime deputy of Adolf Hitler, during a public speech in 1937)
(Credit: Central Press/Getty Images)
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- Wed 9 May 2012 08:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Wed 9 May 2012 15:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Thu 10 May 2012 02:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Sun 13 May 2012 21:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
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