In1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göringarrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompaniedby sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases included all way ofparaphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot-waterbottle, and the same as $1 million in cash. Hidden within a coffee can, a setof brass vials housed glass capsules containing a definite liquid and a whiteprecipitate: potassium cyanide. Becoming a member of about The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göband, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Reaching of Minds by the end of WWII Göring in the detention center were theelite from the captured Nazi regime-Grand Admiral Dönitz, military commanderWilhelm Keitel and his deputy Alfred Jodl, the emotionally unpredictable Robert Ley,the suicidal Hans Frank, the pornographic propagandist Julius Streicher-fifty-twosenior Nazis in every, of whom the dominant physique was Göring.

To make sure that the villainous captiveswere fit for trial at Nuremberg, the united states Army sent an ambitious armypsychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise their mental well-being duringtheir detention. Kelley understood he had been provided the professionalopportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among thesearchcriminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the restof humanity. So began a remarkable relationship between Kelley and his captors,told here for the very first time with exclusive usage of Kelley’s long-hidden papersand medical records.

Kelley’s was ahazardous pursuit, dangerous because against all his expectations he began toappreciate and understand some of the Nazi captives, none more so than theformer Reichsmarschall, Hermann Göband. Evil got its charms.