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 .p110 . [[ | Hjalmar Schacht ]]  .p110 . banker [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Schacht | Hjalmar Schacht ]] IQ 143 top of group, Göring 138, Hess 120, Julius Streicher 106

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

  • 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

  • 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

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