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Nuremberg Diary

	Nuremberg Diary G. M. Gilbert Da Capo Press, 1995 - 488 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Göering, Speer, Hess, Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. In the process Gilbert exposed what motivated them to create the distorted Aryan utopia and the nightmarish worlds of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Here are their day-to-day reactions to the trial proceedings; their off-the-record opinions of Hitler, the Third Reich, and each other; their views on slave labor, death camps, and the Jews; their testimony, feuds, and desperate maneuverings to dissociate themselves from the Third Reich's defeat and Nazi guilt. Dr. Gilbert's thorough knowledge of German, deliberately informal approach, and complete freedom of access at all times to the defendants give his spellbinding, chilling study an intimacy and insight that remains unequaled.

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Read This; Then Watch "Nuremberg" (TNT dvd)

A great companion to the TNT Network movie "Nuremberg" of a few years ago (available on dvd). You'll come away with a good understanding of an important era of history.

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Also see Nuremberg Goering's Last Stand , with Hannes Hellmann as HGm History Channel, Ex 5 Stars.

The Lunatics who Ran the Asylum

This book is the "fly on the wall" account of the surviving Nazi leaders in their final chapter of their infamous history.

Gustave Gilbert was the American Jewish psychoanalyst that the Army placed in the Nuremberg Trials as both a suicide deterrent and a "spy" to glean information on what made those monsters tick. He interferes very little as the deposed leaders "spilt their guts" out to him as they awaited sentencing.

His account of what transpired is now used as a reference in classes on psychology for aberrant and psychopathic personalities. This book is full of surprises! Some are comedic, most are ghastly.

He reports on Streicher's fanaticisms and bombastic speeches about "Hitler and the halo on his head." He reports on the once arrogant Ribbentrop being reduced to a washrag without the support of his "fuhrer." All cases of blind militarism, puffed arrogance, and fanatical foolishness are represented in this collection of papers, detailing how mundane losers can become madmen in the right set and setting.

Of particular interest is his observations of Goering. That man prided himself on being the world's "school bully." Yet he was a moral coward, who doped himself during the war rather than have his childish hero-fantasies crushed. It took a man like Gilbert to crush Goering's goadings and proddings of the other defendants with promises of "Marble Caskets."

Through Gilbert's influence, most of the Nazi leadership finally recognized their errors and sins.

This book should be a "must read" for those interested in why such calamities happen in world history. Also it should be a "must read" for those crazy neo-nazis and Holocaust deniers out there. Gilbert got all his information on the whole Nazi "religion" straight from the horses mouths.

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Ally Retribution

This was a fascinating book. One that every student of WWII history should read.

Unique Look Inside the Trials

I didn't know what to expect from this book, but I was very glad I picked it up. It began a little slowly, but gained momentum quickly and soon had me unable to put it down. Dr. Gilbert, the psychologist and diarist, delivers an in-depth and intimate portrayal of the mental make-up of the Nazi's on trial at Nuremberg. I came away from this book feeling as though I had been at Dr. Gilbert's side throughout the trial, speaking to each defendant individually on a daily basis.

A real "fly-on-the-wall", behind the scenes view of the Nuremberg trials. Highly recommended.

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