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The Nuremberg Interviews
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 341.690268
EAN: 9780375414695
ISBN: 037541469X
Label: Knopf
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: October 05, 2004
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Studio: Knopf
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Editorial Review: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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The Nuremberg Interviews consist of previously unpublished papers written by Leon Goldensohn, Psychiatrist of the condemned Nuremberg Nazi defendants as they go through their war crimes trials and await their verdicts.
It is a welcome companion book to Gustave Gilbert's epic book: "Nuremberg Diary." As prison psychiatrist, Goldensohn was more concerned with the prisoner's physical and mental health during the trials and prescribed medications for them, whereas Gilbert, the prison Psychologist, ... Read More
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This book contains the near-verbatim transcripts of interviews conducted by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn with the Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg. I would say it is crucial to anyone wishing to understand the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in particular.
Many of the men interviewed would be hanged shortly after their interviews. In that sense, this book is a collection of "last words" from men who helped commit some of the worst crimes in the history of humankind. It is fascinating to ... Read More
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The testimony of a psychiatrist, Jewish officer in the U.S. Army, whose mission was to meet with former leaders of Nazi Germany, tried for war crimes at Nuremberg, is crucial in understanding the evil. The humanity of the author is surprising when in face with the demons. This book is therefore moving and instructive. A necessary reading.
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This book has been sitting on my shelf for about a year and I finally decided to dive into it. I wish I had read it sooner. `The Nuremberg Interviews' is a collection of interviews with a number of the most notorious Nuremberg defendants-as well as those designated witnesses-by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn. Much has been written about these individuals, but here we have the story of the Third Reich in the words of those who participated in it. From a historian's point of view, this is truly fascinating ... Read More
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After World War II the allies and occupied/liberated countries (e.g., Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, the Soviet Union) tried tens of thousands of people (German POWs, Nazi officials, Nazi colloborators, etc.) for war crimes. The records of most of these trials (many of which were summary) are not available for one reason or another. The most notorious of these war crimes trials were the ones before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (scene of the spectacle of the Nazi party day celebrations) ... Read More
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