The Hess Action

Hitler was beside himself with rage demanding to know what had gone wrong with his deputy fuhrer. Rosenberg and Borman had a ready answer: Hess's penchant for political fortune telling. Gerbels agreed, writing to his diary that the whole obscure swindle is now finally rooted out. The miracle men, Hess's darlings, are going under lock-in-key. Sure enough, within days, Hitler approved the Third Reich's first coordinated attempt to expose and arrest all practitioners of the occult in Germany. However, action Hess didn't really end up doing that much. Within months, the regime had retreated from its stated policy of eradicating occultism.