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 .p156 . Kelley brought home "mountains" of documents and artifacts from Nuremberg
 .p157 . besides brain-damaged Ley, all top Nazis were capable of distinguishing right from wrong
 .p158 . Kelley concluded MANY people were potential war criminals
 .p158 . Hitler exploited existing minds, thinking emotionally, with thalamus, not cortexc
 .p159 . Göring and colleagues workaholics, long hours, little sleep.
 .p159 . Göring: Hitler was a normal man
 .p160 . Hitler fear of stomach cancer and imminent demise led to attack of Soviet Union
 .p160 . Hitler: "No one but a weakling or a fool ever would commit suicide"
 .p161 . tremor, weakness of left hand and leg diagnosed as hysterical
 .p161 . Hitler neurotic and obsessive but not psychotic or mad
 .p162 . Nazis stidied by Kelley believed they were the course of human evolution
 .p162 . Kelley: There are people in America who would kill half to control the other half
 .p163 . Kelley: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Talmadge | Eugene Talmadge -1946 ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Rankin | John E. Rankin -1960 ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_G._Bilbo | Theodore Bilbo -1947 ]] exploit(ed) racial myths like Hitler
 .p163 . Americans should scrutinize ... to avoid the sad fate of the Germans
 .p164 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski | Korzybskian ... think critically ... ]]
 .p165 . [[ https://www.amazon.com/22-Cells-Nuremberg-Nazi-Mind-ebook/dp/B0GTHY3RR4#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor | 22 Cells in Nuremburg ]]
 .p165 . Kelley associate professor of psychology at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Forest_School_of_Medicine | Wake Forest (Bowman Gray) School of Medicine ]] in North Carolina
 .p167 . Kelley advocated [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram | Antabuse (Dosulfiram) ]]

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


  • 22 Cells in Nuremberg: In the Nazi Mind by Douglas M. Kelley. 17.73 Amazon


  • 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 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
  • p149 . Franz von Papen

  • p151 . Göring suicide with hidden ampule of potassium cyanide 1946 October 15
  • p153 . Bodies incinerated in Dachau ovens says book

    • Ostfriedhof (Munich) according to Wikipedia, which is 20 km from Dachau

    • ashes dumped in Isar river, which runs through Munich
  • p156 . Kelley brought home "mountains" of documents and artifacts from Nuremberg
  • p157 . besides brain-damaged Ley, all top Nazis were capable of distinguishing right from wrong
  • p158 . Kelley concluded MANY people were potential war criminals
  • p158 . Hitler exploited existing minds, thinking emotionally, with thalamus, not cortexc
  • p159 . Göring and colleagues workaholics, long hours, little sleep.
  • p159 . Göring: Hitler was a normal man
  • p160 . Hitler fear of stomach cancer and imminent demise led to attack of Soviet Union
  • p160 . Hitler: "No one but a weakling or a fool ever would commit suicide"
  • p161 . tremor, weakness of left hand and leg diagnosed as hysterical
  • p161 . Hitler neurotic and obsessive but not psychotic or mad
  • p162 . Nazis stidied by Kelley believed they were the course of human evolution
  • p162 . Kelley: There are people in America who would kill half to control the other half
  • p163 . Kelley: Eugene Talmadge -1946 and John E. Rankin -1960 and Theodore Bilbo -1947 exploit(ed) racial myths like Hitler

  • p163 . Americans should scrutinize ... to avoid the sad fate of the Germans
  • p164 . Korzybskian ... think critically ...

  • p165 . 22 Cells in Nuremburg

  • p165 . Kelley associate professor of psychology at Wake Forest (Bowman Gray) School of Medicine in North Carolina

  • p167 . Kelley advocated Antabuse (Dosulfiram)

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