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British officials who interrogated Hess found him hopelessly saturated with Nazi propaganda. If Hess could be taken as accurate evidence, even top-rank Nazis lived in the unreal world their propaganda had created...
...officials tried to tell this Nazi-headed Teuton some ABC's of Britain: that Britons, including titled Britons, contsidered Nazi Germany much more dangerous than Soviet Russia; that, even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...
...Hess did finally understand that his mission was no go, and so he decided to fly back home. When British authorities refused, he was indignant. He accused them of discourtesy...
...captivity Hess grew moody, despondent; he exploded in anger fits. He was allowed a radio, could tune in any country he wanted. When he tuned in BBC news programs he held the volume at a whisper: in Germany the penalty for listening to BBC was death. As he listened he would yell "Lies! All Lies!" He boasted to British officials that he could tell them any thing they wanted to know about German policy, even about German policy formed while he was in Scotland. His mind, he said, worked precisely as Hitler's worked. Given any problems, any situations...
With his moods and tempers, British officials began to find Hess difficult. Before conversations got very far, he would rage and rant. One official saw Hess alone one day, decided to get started on an amiable course. Said the official: "There's some thing that has always interested me. In the Battle of Britain, to put it in round figures, British communiqués said Germany lost about 2,500 planes and we lost about 750. Now your communiqués said just about the opposite-that we lost 2,000 planes and Germany lost only about...