The Nuremberg interviews
By: conducted by Leon Goldensohn ; edited and introduced by Robert Gellately
Contributors: Gellately, Robert, 1943-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
Subjects: Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War criminals -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- Interviews; Witnesses -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews
Description: "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. 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 understanding of the Nazi mind and mission."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-476) and index
Table of contents: title: Nuremberg; title: voices from the past; title: How the Nuremberg interviews were obtained and preserved; title: I: Defendants; title: Karl Doenitz; title: Hans Frank; title: Wilhelm Frick; title: Hans Fritzsche; title: Walther Funk; title: Hermann Goering; title: Rudolf Hess; title: Alfred Jodl; title: Ernst Kaltenbrunner; title: Wilhelm Keitel; title: Constantin von Neurath; title: Franz von Papen; title: Joachim von Ribbentrop; title: Alfred Rosenberg; title: Fritz Sauckel; title: Hjalmar Schacht; title: Baldur von Schirach; title: Albert Speer; title: Julius Streicher; title: II: Witnesses; title: Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski; title: Kurt Daluege; title: Sepp Sietrich; title: Franz Halder; title: Rudolf Hoess; title: Albert Kesselring; title: Ewald von Kleist; title: Erich von Manstein; title: Erhard Milch; title: Rudolf Mildner; title: Otto Ohlendorf; title: Oswald Pohl; title: Walter Schellenberg; title: Paul O. Schmidt