The Nuremberg Interviews

During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohna psychiatrist for the U.S. Armymonitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellatelyone of the premier historians of Nazi Germanymade 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 Ribbentropthe 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 Interviewsis a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

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.

Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933_1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.


From the Hardcover edition.