The Nuremberg Interviews

Leon Goldensohn

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 18, 2007 - History - 528 pages

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.

Contents

• Hans Frank: 18
• Wilhelm Frick: 40
• Hans Fritzsche: 47
• Walther Funk: 76
• Hermann Goering: 101
• Rudolf Hess: 135
• Wilhelm Keitel: 157
• Constantin von Neurath: 169
• Joachim von Ribbentrop: 182
• Alfred Rosenberg: 197
• Fritz Sauckel: 204
• Hjalmar Schacht: 217
• Baldur von Schirach: 237
• Albert Speer: 251
• Erich von dem BachZelewski: 265
• Kurt Daluege: 276
• Franz Halder: 286
• Rudolf Hoess: 295
• Albert Kesselring: 317
• Ewald von Kleist: 329
• Erich von Manstein: 351
• Erhard Milch: 358
• Rudolf Mildner: 367
• Otto Ohlendorf: 386
• Oswald Pohl: 395
• Walter Schellenberg: 415
• Paul O Schmidt: 433
• Glossary: 451
• Index: 477

About the author

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 recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933—1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Nuremberg Interviews
• Author: Leon Goldensohn
• Edition: annotated
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 0307429105, 9780307429100
• Length: 528 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Military; History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust; Political Science / Genocide & War Crimes