The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn

The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn

During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn--a U.S. 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 fifty 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 a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

Dr. Leon Goldensohn was an American psychiatrist and physician who served in the United States Army. In 1943, he joined the army and was assigned to France and Germany. In 1961, he passed away. Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth-Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University recently. He is the author of Supporting Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945.

He was born in the city of St. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and now resides in Tallahassee, Florida.