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Rudolph Hess believed Jews hypnotized Churchill

Rudolph Hess believed the Jews had hypnotised Winston Churchill 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'....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)