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22 cells in Nuremberg
- 245 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1947
- 4 editions
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1 About this book
22 Cells in Nuremberg (1947) is a first-hand account by Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, the American psychiatrist tasked with evaluating 22 top-ranking Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring -- awaiting trial. Kelley provides psychological profiles and in-cell interviews, concluding that these leaders were largely sane, ordinary, and opportunistic, rather than unique monsters.
- Biography
- History
- Psychology
- War criminals
- National socialism
2 What to expect
A first-hand account by the American psychiatrist who examined the leading Nazi defendants in their cells before the Nuremberg trial. After sketching the ideas that produced them, he gives short psychological portraits of each man, from Goering and Hess to Streicher, grouped by the part they played. It is brief and written for general readers, in the plain manner of 1947, and its conclusion is unsettling: he found no madness that would explain them.
Good for readers who want: a true life story, history, and psychology.
3 About Douglas McGlashan Kelley
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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