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The Nuremberg Interviews

An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses

An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses

By Leon Goldensohn
Introduction by Robert Gellately
Edited by Robert Gellately

By Leon Goldensohn
Introduction by Robert Gellately
Edited by Robert Gellately

By Leon Goldensohn

By Leon Goldensohn

By Leon Goldensohn
Read by Noah Michael Levine and Joshua Kane
Introduction by Robert Gellately
Edited by Robert Gellately

By Leon Goldensohn
Read by Noah Michael Levine and Joshua Kane
Introduction by Robert Gellately
Edited by Robert Gellately

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    About The Nuremberg Interviews

    During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn—a U.S. Army psychiatrist—monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went 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.

    About The Nuremberg Interviews

    During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn—a U.S. Army psychiatrist—monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went 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.

    About The Nuremberg Interviews

    The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a U.S. Army psychiatrist. Dr. Leon Goldensohn was entrusted with monitoring the mental health of the two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide, as well as that of many of the defense and prosecution witnesses. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years.

    Now, Robert Gellately–one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany–has transcribed, edited, and annotated the interviews, and makes them available to the public for the first time in this volume.

    Here are interviews with the highest-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails, including Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Here, too, are interviews with the lesser-known officials who were, nonetheless, essential to the workings of the Third Reich. Goldensohn was a particularly astute interviewer, his training as a psychiatrist leading him to probe the motives, the rationales, and the skewing of morality that allowed these men to enact an unfathomable evil. Candid and often shockingly truthful, these interviews are deeply disturbing in their illumination of an ideology gone mad.

    Each interview is annotated with biographical information that places the man and his actions in their historical context. These interviews are a profoundly important addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

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    About Leon Goldensohn

    Dr. Leon Goldensohn was an American physician and psychiatrist who joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany. He died in 1961.

    About Leon Goldensohn

    Dr. Leon Goldensohn was an American physician and psychiatrist who joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany. He died in 1961.

    About Leon Goldensohn

    Dr. Leon Goldensohn was an American physician and psychiatrist who joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany. He died in 1961.

    Product Details

    Category: European World History | Biography & Memoir | Politics

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 25, 2005 | 528 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400030439

    Category: European World History | Biography & Memoir | Politics

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9780307429100

    Category: European World History | Biography & Memoir | Politics | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $27.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 16, 2021 | 1156 Minutes | ISBN 9780593560563

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    Praise

    “A gripping work of history, a series of oral narratives that drag the reader, almost by force, into the nightmarish mental landscape of the Third Reich.” —The New York Times

    “A rare document. . . . Striking proof of the banality of evil.” —Kirkus

    “Goldensohn serves as a down-to-earth Dante in these anterooms to hell, getting one damned soul after another to reveal himself in his own words.” —Newsweek

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