Brigadier John Rawlings Rees and The Rudolf Hess Affair
Together with Henry Dicks, a fellow member of the Tavistock Clinic group, Rees was charged with the care of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess at the secret prison locations where he was held following his capture after landing in Scotland. Over the four-year period from June 1941 up to Hess's appearance at the Nuremberg trial, Rees apparently established a relationship with Hess: Hess's diaries record many meetings with Rees, referred to at this time as Colonel Rees, in which Hess accused his captors of attempting to poison, drug, and 'mesmerize' him. In 1945, Rees was a member of the three-man British panel (with Churchill's personal physician Lord Moran, and eminent neurologist Dr George Riddoch), which assessed Hess's capability to stand trial for war crimes.
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