The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (44 page)

141   
“good mental health”
“Nazis No Longer Swagger at Trial.”

141   
“He wanted to know if an individual”
Kelley, “Rudolf Hess.”

142   
“the General Staff Doctor, Major Kelley”
Rosenberg to Douglas Kelley.

142   
Göring described a conversation
Kelley, “Rudolf Hess.”

142   
he broke down and wept
Zillmer et al.,
Quest for the Nazi Personality
, 82.

143   
to replace Kelley as Nuremberg jail psychiatrist
Wyllie,
Warlord and the Renegade
, 198.

144   
“practically lived with Hess”
Davis, “Hitler Gang Just Ordinary Thugs.”

144   
“He might have been addressing”
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 255.

145   
“Somehow he makes me think of a captured lion”
Dodd and Bloom,
Letters from Nuremberg
, 263.

145   
“His fellow prisoners followed him”
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 257.

145   
Göring’s obvious contempt
Ibid., 259.

145   
“When the former Reichsmarschall strode”
Dodd and Bloom,
Letters from Nuremberg
, 267.

145   
he lost his temper on the witness stand
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 263.

146   
“oral and incipient overt aggression”
Gilbert,
Psychology of Dictatorship
, 115.

146   
Göring spun around in the dock
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 272.

146   
“he could not ask for drugs now”
Gilbert,
Psychology of Dictatorship
, 115.

146   
“was no longer news”
Manvell and Fraenkel,
Goering
, 334.

146   
“It is against such a background”
Ehrenfreund,
Nuremberg Legacy
, 73.

147   
“I should like to state clearly”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 174

147   
“I do not regret anything”
Ehrenfreund,
Nuremberg Legacy
, 85.

147   
so far from a school
Lebert and Lebert,
My Father’s Keeper
, 204–205.

147   
“I am submitting herewith a great request”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 161–162.

148   
He consistently refused to let Emmy or other relatives
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 267.

148   
“Whatever I thought about Göring”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 162.

148   
“meant one more chance to pass”
Ibid., 174.

148   
“You’ve grown”
Lebert and Lebert,
My Father’s Keeper
, 205–206.

149   
“The sentence probably won’t be carried out”
Ibid., 206.

149   
“Death sentences for insane persons”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 36–37.

149   
“A nice long prison term”
Anspacher, “SF Psychiatrist for Doomed Nazi Tells How They’ll Die.”

150   
“You don’t have to worry about the Hitler legend”
Bosch,
Judgment on Nuremberg
, 61.

150   
Gerecke, hearing from Göring
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 185.

150   
Andrus was among the first
Ibid., 191.

151   
“To the Commandant”
Ibid., 201.

151   
As recently as 2005
Ehrenfreund,
Nuremberg Legacy
, 90–91.

152   
“He’ll never weaken”
“SF Doctor Predicts How 11 Nazis Will Die.”

152   
“demonstrates how ingeniously clever”
“S.F. Psychiatrist Is Amazed at Goering Suicide.”

152   
“Göring, however, went a step further”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 76.

153   
“showed some courage at the very end”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 113.

153   
would “hang happy”
“S.F. Psychiatrist Is Amazed at Goering Suicide.”

153   
“a macabre request”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 168.

CHAPTER 8: THE NAZI MIND

155   
“We don’t know about war crimes”
Bosch,
Judgment on Nuremberg
, 203.

155   
“We have high hopes”
Ibid., 218.

156   
“was anxious to forget the war years”
Alice Kelley to Selzer.

156   
“a number of people urged him”
Alice Kelley to Mandel, September 1, 1985.

156   
books that their Nazi authors had signed
Ibid.

157   
“behind big desks”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 238–239.

158   
“because we look with disgust and hatred”
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”

158   
“Insanity is no explanation”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 4.

158   
“It is an established scientific fact”
Ibid., 6–7.

159   
“They all worked for incredibly long hours”
Schurr, “Gods Come Down.”

159   
“Hitler had a profound conviction”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 211.

159   
“Hitler was just as normal”
Ibid., 212.

159   
Cambridge professor Joseph MacCurdy
“WWII Adolf Hitler Profile Suggests ‘Messiah Complex’.”

160   
“no more than a nervous bellyache”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 201.

160   
Kelley had learned
Ibid., 217.

160   
One of Hitler’s doctors, Karl Brandt
Ibid., 218.

160   
Hitler’s fear of death
Ibid., 215.

161   
Another factor in the attraction of death
Ibid., 202, 205.

161   
“With the exception of Dr. Ley”
Zillmer et al.,
Quest for the Nazi Personality
, 80.

161   
“were not special types”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 238.

162   
“They are people who exist in every country”
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”

163   
“there is little in America today”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 238.

163   
American politicians, like white supremacists
Ibid., 242–243.

163   
“our thoughts and our education”
Ibid., 13.

164   
“Americans are only [now] getting it ground in”
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”

164   
To combat this threat
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 245.

164   
While professing faith in America’s traditions
Brunner, “‘Oh Those Crazy Cards Again’.”

164   
Lecturing around the state
Lecturing Contracts 1946.

165   
He ended up signing a contract
Greenberg to Kelley.

165   
“was offered an instructorship”
Fabing to Byron.

166   
Visitors entered the fifty-acre estate
Forsyth County Historic Resources, “Graylyn.”

166   
Doctors could even experiment with lobotomy
Davis, “Civilization Now Offers Hope to Victims.”

167   
“A neurotic person invariably thinks”
Summers, “Graylyn Ready for Treatment.”

167   
“will fight through the effects”
McIlwain, “Liquor Can Curb Its Own Problems.”

168   
“We actually will retrain”
Summers, “Graylyn Ready for Treatment.”

170   
“wouldn’t act so nutty”
“Semantics Held Key to Clarity in Thought.”

170   
He traveled through the Carolinas
Lecture Contracts 1947.

170   
“The average emotional age level”
Anspacher, “Nuernberg Psychiatrist Fears Nazism in U.S.”

171   
“are not very bright”
Rogers, “Faster Mental Cures Found.”