The Nazi and the Psychiatrist |
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| Author:
| El-Hai, Jack |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61039-156-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist explores the unusual relationship that took shape in a small prison cell in a bombed-out city in 1945. The cell held two men: Hermann Goering, the former Reichsmarschall and flamboyant commander of the German luftwaffe who was the most prominent leader standing of the Nazi regime's top leaders after World War II, and a young psychiatrist from the mountain town of Truckee, California, with a compulsive desire to investigate the nature of evil. The...
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist explores the unusual relationship that took shape in a small prison cell in a bombed-out city in 1945. The cell held two men: Hermann Goering, the former Reichsmarschall and flamboyant commander of the German luftwaffe who was the most prominent leader standing of the Nazi regime's top leaders after World War II, and a young psychiatrist from the mountain town of Truckee, California, with a compulsive desire to investigate the nature of evil. The psychiatrist, Douglas M. Kelley, M.D., struggled to understand the workings of Goering's mind as part of his investigation of the psychological origins of evil. It was Major Kelley's assignment to assess the mental fitness of Goering and twenty-one other members of the Nazi leadership who awaited trial in Nuremberg during the last half of 1945. They would face a historic international tribunal judging them on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.