The Nuremberg Interviews | Leon Goldensohn

The Nuremberg Interviews | Leon Goldensohn | A reading of strong necessity

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	The Nuremberg Interviews Leon Goldensohn Vintage, 2005 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn?a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army?monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately?one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany?made them available to the public in this remarkable collection.

Here are interviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop?the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails. Here too are interviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich. Candid and often shockingly truthful, The Nuremberg Interviews is a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

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Unique and Fascinating

This book contains the near-verbatim transcripts of interviews conducted by American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn with the Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg. I would say it is crucial to anyone wishing to understand the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in particular.

Many of the men interviewed would be hanged shortly after their interviews. In that sense, this book is a collection of "last words" from men who helped commit some of the worst crimes in the history of humankind. It is fascinating to hear how they viewed themselves and their part in the Nazi war machine and the Final Solution. For example, virtually all of them regard themselves as decent chaps, whose scope of choice had been limited to the point where they were unable to do other than they had done.

I like that this book was not "glitzed up" by the editor. Aside from a short, preliminary essay, the book is comprised entirely of Goldensohn's notes. This keeps the focus on the interviews, rather than on commentaries or biographies or a bunch of photos (at the beginning of each interview, there are two or three sentences explaining who the person was, one portrait photo, and that's it).

Goldensohn is a deft interviewer, who tries to let the men explain themselves while asking them searching or uncomfortable questions at opportune moments.

Anyway, a unique and valuable contribution to the field.

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A reading of strong necessity

The testimony of a psychiatrist, Jewish officer in the U.S. Army, whose mission was to meet with former leaders of Nazi Germany, tried for war crimes at Nuremberg, is crucial in understanding the evil. The humanity of the author is surprising when in face with the demons. This book is therefore moving and instructive. A necessary reading.

A Fascinating Find!

The Nuremberg Interviews consist of previously unpublished papers written by Leon Goldensohn, Psychiatrist of the condemned Nuremberg Nazi defendants as they go through their war crimes trials and await their verdicts.

It is a welcome companion book to Gustave Gilbert's epic book: "Nuremberg Diary." As prison psychiatrist, Goldensohn was more concerned with the prisoner's physical and mental health during the trials and prescribed medications for them, whereas Gilbert, the prison Psychologist, was more concerned with what made those monsters tick, and also to glean information from the defendants to assist the prosecution. Goldensohn and Gilbert were collaborators and colleagues in the Allied prosecution effort. While Goldensohn took a dispassionate clinical approach to the defendants, Gilbert took a more active role and was not afraid to add his two cents worth and reveal his disgust at their lame excuses.

Together, these books on the Nazi elite after their downfall provide us with a picture window into the "La-La Land" that these monsters considered Utopia, and the reasons why they insisted on forcing their Utopia on Europe during their reign. Truly a sinister "Through The Looking Glass," where reason and logic run backwards!

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America's haze of Moral Superlatives at Nuremberg

It ought to surprise no one that America, forever destined to carry the sign of Cain for the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, attempted to hide in a haze of moral superlatives at Nuremberg after WW2.

Justice never reigned there, only the dictatorship of force. Force demands victims and there were many at Nuremberg; just as there were many innocents at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq, Guatemala, Panama, Iran, Chile, Vietnam, China, etc

America who sold the Iraq invasion on a pack of lies; and caused the deaths of over 1 million innocent Iraq civilians, 500,000 of which were children whose only crime was being born at the wrong place at the wrong time!

North Korea threatened to NUKE the USA last week - Yet no efforts are made to invade North Korea. Could it be because North Korea has no oil?

A country that imprisons 1 in 100; where the CIA are the brokers of crack & cocaine & where Dick Cheney makes profits off the prison system!

Longest period of time USA has gone without bombing someone: 2 years

A war rationale is gradually imposing itself onto international relations: massive, unilateral re-arming of the United States; attack of Afghanistan without proving the case for self-defense; attack of Iraq under false pretence before plundering its resources; open threats against Syria and Iran; declaration of a remodelling of frontiers in the "Great Middle-East"; development of the hatred media and the "clash of civilizations" ideology.

There are U.S. troops stationed in 148 countries and 11 territories in every corner of the globe. This the greatest number of countries that the United States has ever had troops in. This also means that U.S. troops occupy over 75 percent of the world's countries

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Excellent book highly recommended. What struck me was that none of the people intervied accepted any resonability; it was always the other persons fault. My only consolation is that at the final judgement, these criminals will have to face God and give an account for what they did and there will be no "passing the buck" at that time. I still can't get over the fact that they gassed babies just because they were Jewish!

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