The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

By Jack El-Hai

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NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG

In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann G ring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. Joining him in the detention center were fifty-one senior Nazis, of whom G ring was the dominant figure.

To ensure that the captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise and evaluate them. To Kelley, it was the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. But Kelley's quest would prove to be a dangerous one. The more he spoke with the Nazi captives, the more he began to understand and appreciate their perspective--and the more he would fall for their charms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610394631
• ISBN13: 9781610394635
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"