The Nuremberg Interviews - Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses - Hardcover

Goldensohn, Leon (edit Robert Gellately).

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845950143 ISBN 13: 9781845950149

Publisher: Pimlico, 2006

Synopsis

Un documento ú la transcripción de las conversaciones que mantuvo Leon Goldensohn, psiquiatra del Ejército Estadounidense, con los principales encausados en el proceso de Núremberg. En 1946, con los juicios de Núremberg en marcha, el psiquiatra del ejército estadounidense Leon Goldensohn recibió el encargo de entrevistar a dos docenas de líderes alemanes encausados, así como a numerosos testigos de la defensa y de la acusación. El contenido de estas conversaciones no se ha desvelado hasta ahora, más de cincuenta años después. Robert Gellately -uno de los principales historiadores especializados en la Alemania nazi- nos ofrece en este libro treinta y tres de estas entrevistas (cuidadosamente transcritas, editadas y anotadas) con soldados y algunos de los oficiales nazis de mayor graduación encarcelados en Núremberg, entre los que se encuentran Hans Frank, Hermann Göring, Ernest Kaltenbrunner y Joachim von Ribbentrop. Como entrevistador, Goldensohn era especialmente astuto y, en cada una de las conversaciones, logró extraer las motivaciones y la desviación moral que llevó a estos hombres a planear y cometer tan diabólicos crímenes. Nos presenta a unos soldados y oficiales que se debaten entre la admisión y la negación de los hechos, bien acusando a sus superiores o considerando que actuaron correctamente en todo momento. Gracias a la información biográfica y las notas con las que Gellately ha completado cada entrevista, esta obra aporta información imprescindible para comprender la mentalidad y la misión de una ideología enloquecida.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a U.S. Army psychiatrist. Dr. Leon Goldensohn was entrusted with monitoring the mental health of the two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide, as well as that of many of the defense and prosecution witnesses. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years.
Now, Robert Gellately-one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany-has transcribed, edited, and annotated the interviews, and makes them available to the public for the first time in this volume.
Here are interviews with the highest-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails, including Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Here, too, are interviews with the lesser-known officials who were, nonetheless, essential to the workings of the Third Reich. Goldensohn was a particularly astute interviewer, his training as a psychiatrist leading him to probe the motives, the rationales, and the skewing of morality that allowed these men to enact an unfathomable evil. Candid and often shockingly truthful, these interviews are deeply disturbing in their illumination of an ideology gone mad.
Each interview is annotated with biographical information that places the man and his actions in their historical context. These interviews are a profoundly important addition to our understandingof the Nazi mind and mission.

"From the Hardcover edition.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845950143
• ISBN 13: 9781845950149
• Binding: Hardcover