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Gift able copy -The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring,\, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII Excellent crisp clean copy, White boards Black titling spine, nice quality buff pages,Lightly read if at all. - 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of 1 million in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Joining Göring in the detention center were the elite of the captured Nazi regime—Grand Admiral Dönitz; armed forces commander Wilhelm Keitel and his deputy Alfred Jodl; the mentally unstable Robert Ley; the suicidal Hans Frank; the pornographic propagandist Julius Streicher—fifty-two senior Nazis in all, of whom the dominant figure was Göring. Evil had its charms. US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise the villainous captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. .....Jack El-Hai is a widely-published journalist who ...
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New York PublicAffairs 2013 First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket x, 281, [3] pages. Principal Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the title page. Jack El-Hai is an American journalist and author who focuses most of his work on the history of medicine, the history of science, and other historical topics. He is the author of a biography of Dr. Walter Freeman, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, and Turbulent Air: A History of Northwest Airlines. Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912-January 1, 1958) was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency evaluations before standing trial. Along with psychologist Gustave Gilbert he administered the Rorschach inkblot test to the 22 defendants in the Nazi leadership group prior to the first Nuremberg trials. Kelley authored two books on the subject: Twenty-two Cells in Nuremberg and The Case of Rudolph Hess. Derived from a Kirkus review: Ace reportage on the relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials. El-Hai's exploration begins at the end: with the suicide of Douglas Kelley. The author examines the origins of ...
New York: PublicAffairs, Date: 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 281, [3] pages. Principal Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the title page. Jack El-Hai is an American journalist and author who focuses most of his work on the history of medicine, the history of science, and other historical topics. He is the author of a biography of Dr. Walter Freeman, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, and Turbulent Air: A History of Northwest Airlines. Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912 - January 1, 1958) was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency evaluations before standing trial. Along with psychologist Gustave Gilbert he administered the Rorschach inkblot test to the 22 defendants in the Nazi leadership group prior to the first Nuremberg trials. Kelley authored two books on the subject: Twenty-two Cells in Nuremberg and The Case of Rudolph Hess. Derived from a Kirkus review: Ace reportage on the relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials. El-Hai's exploration begins at the end: with the suicide of Douglas Kelley. The a ...
ISBN10: 161039156X, ISBN13: 9781610391566, [publisher: PublicAffairs, New York] Hardcover First Edition x, 281, [3] pages. Principal Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the title page. Jack El-Hai is an American journalist and author who focuses most of his work on the history of medicine, the history of science, and other historical topics. He is the author of a biography of Dr. Walter Freeman, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, and Turbulent Air: A History of Northwest Airlines. Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912 - January 1, 1958) was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency evaluations before standing trial. Along with psychologist Gustave Gilbert he administered the Rorschach inkblot test to the 22 defendants in the Nazi leadership group prior to the first Nuremberg trials. Kelley authored two books on the subject: Twenty-two Cells in Nuremberg and The Case of Rudolph Hess. Derived from a Kirkus review: Ace reportage on the relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials. El-Hai's exploration begins at the end: with the suicide of Douglas Kelley. The author examines th ...
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