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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

Herman Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the end of WWII

2013 . Cedar Mill . 341.69 El-Hai . 281 pages

• p012 . Roehm Putsch of 1934

• p013 . Hermann Göring Carinhall

  • tame lions, stolen art
  • survived war because Hitler's execution order was not confirmed in writing

• p014 . Göring's "heart medicine" was narcotic paracodeine

• p015 . 40 pills per day, narcotic effect of 520 mg of morphine (65 mg anesthetizes average person)

• p024 . Douglas Kelley wrote "... We must learn the why of the Nazi success so we can take steps to prevent the recurrence of such evil."

• p024 . Kelley's mother June McGlashan, wealthy family near Truckee and Lake Tahoe

• p025 . The Rocking Stone Tower 16 ton balanced boulder

• p026 . artifacts of 1846-47 Donner Party cannibal winter 48 of 87 survived

  • Kelley's maternal grandfather Charles McGlashan wrote History of the Donner Party

• p026 . Lewis Keseberg survivor

• p028 . Kelley's mother June married Truckee dentist George "Doc" Kelley in 1909
• p028 . Son Douglas (book's protagonist) born 1912 August 11 in Truckee, family moved to San Francisco in 1919

• p032 . Rorschach test

• p033 . Douglas Kelley and Bruno Klopfer wrote The Rorschach Technique in 1942

• p033 . Alfred Korzybski Science and Sanity 1933 General semantics

• p034 . Skilled debater listens carefully to understand compulsions of adversary
• p035 . Kelley taught patients to perform magic tricks, claiming theraputic effectiveness

• p036 . Kelley used sodium amytal "truth serum" on resistant patients

• p038 . 1.6M WW1 soldiers psychiatric wounded
• p038 . 1,1M WW2 US disabled by psychiatric traumas
• p039 . many soldiers were psychopath, psychotic, or mentally defective and should not have been admitted
• p050 . Kelley at Nuremberg Prison 1945

• p050 . Baldur von Schirach 38yo and Konstantin von Neurath 72y

• p050 . Kelley self-appointed mission to understand Nazi mind
• p052 . prisoners emotionally abusived, kept separate
• p054 . Allied interrogators questioned prisoners away from their cells
  • (KL: presumably so other prisoners couldn't hear the interrogations and answers)
• p056 . Kelley: Göring complained less and accepted prison routine better than others
• p060 . racial superiority? Goering:"nobody believes that rot ... it was good propaganda".
• p060 . Kelley concluded "... complete lack of moral value"
• p068 . Kelley curious why Nazi leaders did horrible things

• p068 . Cesare Lombroso Anthropological criminology and psychology

• p068 . criminals impulsive, immature, affection deprived, lacked restraint, verified by later studies

• p069 .Is Germany Incurable? 1943 book by psychiatrist Richard M. Brickner, PSU Basement DD76.B73
• p071 . Kelley psychiatrically measured Nuremberg "patients", Rorschach etc.
• p071 . Nuremberg prison "a psychiatrist's playground"

• p074 . Translator Sergeant Howard Triest, family members killed in Auschwitz

• p075 . Göring most self-centered person in Kelley's experience
• p075 . German no-men were killed

• p075 . Hervey Cleckley The Mask of Sanity cited

• p076 . Night of the Long Knives, Göring had Röhm killed

• p076 . Kelley (unaware?) of psychopath narcissism

• p080 . Göring asked Kelley to adopt his daughter Edda if both parents died

• p082 . Göring chosen as Hitler's successor because Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess chose drab furniture

• p083 . Hess paranoid in prison, feigned amnesia, feared poisoning
• p086 . Hess suicide in prison 1987 age 93

• p088 . Streicher cordial with "perfect Nordic" translator Howard Triest

• p092 . Hess read two books a day in prison

• p093 . Hitler's physician Karl Brandt ran Aktion T4 involuntary euthanasia program, executed 1948

  • may have given Kelley 1944 X-ray images of Hitler's skull

• p099 . Robert Ley suicide in Nuremberg prison 25 October 1945

• p101 . Rudolf Hess: "I do not like to be tried with Göring", returned to Edgar Wallace novel

• p103 . Gustave Mark Gilbert another psychologist for prisoners

• p104 . social psychology, not clinical

• p105 . defendant interview notes afterwards in personal diary
• p106 . None of the Nazi defendants could actually identify a Jewish person

• p108 . neuropathologist Webb Haymaker found degeneration in Ley's brain, second opinion disagreed

• p109 . Gilbert labelled Göring smart, cynical, depressed, and depraved but no genius

• p110 . banker Hjalmar Schacht IQ 143 top of group, Göring 138, Hess 120, Julius Streicher 106

• p111 . Gilbert: IQ ... intellectual efficiency, not character, morals, or personality

• p112 . Hans Fritzsche propaganda minister

• p117 . Donald Ewen Cameron notorious experiments for the CIA

• p119 . Hess claimed illness diagnoses from pupil changes

• p120 . Ernst Kaltenbrunner highest ranking SS in prison, suicidal crybaby, Subarachnoid hemorrhage in prison

• p120 . Subarachnoid hemorrhage in prison

• p120 . Kelley took books from a university library, imprisoned authors autographed them

• p121 . prosecutor William Donovan read Kelley's disclosures about prisoner's defense strategies

• p121 . Jodl's defense, duty to follow military orders

• p122 . Hans Frank accepted guilt pretrial, criticized others who didn't

• p123 . weird Göring nattering
• p140 . Göring shunned by other prisoners at lunchtime

• p140 . called them Schweinehund und veraeter, Pig-dog and traitor

• p141 . Kelley not interested in trial outcome, he was there to dissect (prisoner) minds.
• p142 . Göring wept when Kelley left the prison

• p143 . Kelley replaced by Leon Goldensohn 1946 January who was prison psychiatrist until July 1946

• p146 . Defendants' group solidarity collapsed, Göring maligned other defendants and other staff
• p146 . bloodstained Gloucester ... King Lear?
• p148 . Göring refused visits and testimony from wife Emmy and other relatives

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