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Nuremberg’s Doctor: The True Story of the Psychiatrist Who Studied the Nazis and Paid the Ultimate Price
He wanted to understand evil. Evil understood him first.
In the ashes of World War II, twenty-two of Hitler’s highest-ranking officers sat behind bars in Nuremberg waiting to be judged by the world. Among them stood one man who wasn’t a soldier, politician, or executioner. He was a doctor. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a brilliant American psychiatrist, believed the human mind could explain the roots of atrocity itself.
Armed with Rorschach tests and quiet confidence, Kelley stepped inside the prison where the architects of genocide waited to hang. There he met Hermann Göring charismatic, manipulative, and disturbingly human. What began as an experiment in science soon became a dangerous psychological duel. Was he studying Göring, or was Göring studying him?
Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Nuremberg’s Doctor reveals the true, haunting story of the psychiatrist who tried to measure the minds of mass murderers—and lost himself in the process. Based on real documents, trial transcripts, and Kelley’s own journals, this narrative nonfiction reads with the pulse of a novel and the weight of history.
Few people know that the man who diagnosed the sanity of the Nazis would one day mirror their fate. His pursuit of truth became his own undoing, leaving behind a chilling question that still echoes what if the capacity for evil isn’t madness, but reason itself?
Readers of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, In Cold Blood, and The Perfect Storm will find themselves gripped by this real-life psychological thriller that blurs the line between justice and obsession, science and soul.
What you’re about to discover will change how you see the human mind—and what it’s capable of.
Ready to uncover the truth? Get your copy of Nuremberg’s Doctor today and step inside the prison where evil was put on trial—and where one man learned its final secret.
In the ashes of World War II, twenty-two of Hitler’s highest-ranking officers sat behind bars in Nuremberg waiting to be judged by the world. Among them stood one man who wasn’t a soldier, politician, or executioner. He was a doctor. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a brilliant American psychiatrist, believed the human mind could explain the roots of atrocity itself.
Armed with Rorschach tests and quiet confidence, Kelley stepped inside the prison where the architects of genocide waited to hang. There he met Hermann Göring charismatic, manipulative, and disturbingly human. What began as an experiment in science soon became a dangerous psychological duel. Was he studying Göring, or was Göring studying him?
Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Nuremberg’s Doctor reveals the true, haunting story of the psychiatrist who tried to measure the minds of mass murderers—and lost himself in the process. Based on real documents, trial transcripts, and Kelley’s own journals, this narrative nonfiction reads with the pulse of a novel and the weight of history.
Few people know that the man who diagnosed the sanity of the Nazis would one day mirror their fate. His pursuit of truth became his own undoing, leaving behind a chilling question that still echoes what if the capacity for evil isn’t madness, but reason itself?
Readers of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, In Cold Blood, and The Perfect Storm will find themselves gripped by this real-life psychological thriller that blurs the line between justice and obsession, science and soul.
What you’re about to discover will change how you see the human mind—and what it’s capable of.
Ready to uncover the truth? Get your copy of Nuremberg’s Doctor today and step inside the prison where evil was put on trial—and where one man learned its final secret.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2025
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