The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses

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During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn-a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army-monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately-one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany-made them available to the public in this remarkable collection.Here are interviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop-the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails. Here too are interviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich. Candid and often shockingly truthful, "The Nuremberg Interviews" is a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.