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

Author: Leo Goldensohn

Editor: Robert Gellately

During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn—a US 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 50 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 an important addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

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528 pages