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...Hess. "Vic Oliver [Churchill's son-in-law] made up as Boris Karloff and painted the color of a corpse. . . . Down to skin and bone, going bald, wild eyes set in deep-sunken cavities, he has a nervous twitch and jerky movements...
Earlier in the week the defendants enjoyed themselves, nudging each other and laughing as documents and films recount ed their days of power. Rudolf Hess applauded Hitler on the screen. Former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wept, watching Hitler in a screaming speech and in an aside to U.S. Army Major Douglas Kelley, court psychiatrist, said: "Can't you just feel Hitler's tremendous personality? For us it was the most fearfully stimulating thing that has ever happened in our lifetime...
...Rudolf Hess decided that here was just the job for him. If he, the Führer's friend and deputy, a Reichsminister, and an SA and SS Obergruppenführer, personally flew to England, certainly Churchill could negotiate without losing face...
...Mused Hess in his Nürnberg cell: "The decision . . . was without doubt the hardest I ever made. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualized the endless rows of children's coffins in both Germany and England, with mothers in dire distress following behind, and similar rows of mothers killed by bombs, with crying children following. I assume many people will interpret this as misplaced sentimentalism...
...Obergruppenführer Hess could hardly assume that many people would consider him misplaced...