The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
PublicAffairs · Print & ebook · September 2, 2014
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK 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 “The book is a page turner.”—NPR A New York Times Bestsller In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox.
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- Who it’s for
- A tight wartime encounter where psychology and power keep rubbing against each other.
- Themes
- psychology, World War II, evil
- Pacing
- Steady
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NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK 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 “The book is a page turner.”—NPR A New York Times Bestsller In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox.
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Joining him in the detention center were fifty-one senior Nazis, of whom Göring 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.
Pressure Point
A tight wartime encounter where psychology and power keep rubbing against each other.
Come here for
- psychology under wartime pressure
- tense historical encounter
Expect
- World War II history with a clinical edge
- a sustained, unsettling read
Where it sits
| Holocaust History | 46% |
|---|---|
| World War II: European Theater | 34% |
| Historical True Crime | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- World War II History
- Holocaust History
- Genocide & War Crimes
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Authors
- Jack El-Hai
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Published
- September 2, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- psychology · World War II · evil
- Reading lane
- World War II History