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Swiat zachodni oniemial, gdy na jaw wyszla skala ludobójstwa, jakiego dopuscili sie niemieccy nazisci. W 1945 roku zwycieskie mocarstwa powolaly Miedzynarodowy Trybunal Wojskowy w Norymberdze, który mial osadzic glównych zbrodniarzy wojennych III Rzeszy.
Leon Goldensohn, psychiatra wiezienny, spedzil ponad pól roku na rozmowach z oskarzonymi i swiadkami oskarzenia. Z jego notatek wylaniaja sie wstrzasajace portrety ludzi dobrze wyksztalconych, rozmilowanych w sztuce, zakochanych w swoich rodzinach, zupelnie pozbawionych swiadomosci zbrodni, których dokonywali. Zapis szokujacych rozmów m.in. z Hermannem Göringiem, Rudolfem Hessem, Hansem Frankiem i Joachimem von Ribbentropem stawia przed czytelnikiem pytania o to, w jaki sposób rodzi sie w czlowieku gotowosc do popelnienia zbrodni.
Leon Goldensohn, psychiatra wiezienny, spedzil ponad pól roku na rozmowach z oskarzonymi i swiadkami oskarzenia. Z jego notatek wylaniaja sie wstrzasajace portrety ludzi dobrze wyksztalconych, rozmilowanych w sztuce, zakochanych w swoich rodzinach, zupelnie pozbawionych swiadomosci zbrodni, których dokonywali. Zapis szokujacych rozmów m.in. z Hermannem Göringiem, Rudolfem Hessem, Hansem Frankiem i Joachimem von Ribbentropem stawia przed czytelnikiem pytania o to, w jaki sposób rodzi sie w czlowieku gotowosc do popelnienia zbrodni.
576 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2015
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Leon Goldensohn
9 books5 followersLeon Goldensohn was an American psychiatrist who monitored the mental health of the twenty-one Nazi defendants awaiting trial at Nuremberg in 1946.
Born on October 19, 1911, in New York City, Goldensohn was the son of Jews who had emigrated from Lithuania. He joined the United States Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany, where he served as a psychiatrist for the 63rd Division. He replaced another psychiatrist in January 1946, about six weeks into the trials, and spent more than six months visiting the prisoners nearly every day. He interviewed most of the defendants, including Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. Goldensohn conducted most his interviews in English with the aid of a translator to have the defendants and witnesses express themselves fully in their own language. Some of his subjects, notably foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were partially or fully fluent in English, and conducted their interviews in that language.
Goldensohn served as prison psychiatrist until July 26, 1946. He had resolved to write a book about the experience but later contracted tuberculosis and died from a coronary heart attack in 1961. The detailed notes he took were later researched and collated by his brother Eli, a retired neurologist. Robert Gellately, a World War II scholar, edited and annotated the interviews in the book "The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses."
Born on October 19, 1911, in New York City, Goldensohn was the son of Jews who had emigrated from Lithuania. He joined the United States Army in 1943 and was posted to France and Germany, where he served as a psychiatrist for the 63rd Division. He replaced another psychiatrist in January 1946, about six weeks into the trials, and spent more than six months visiting the prisoners nearly every day. He interviewed most of the defendants, including Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. Goldensohn conducted most his interviews in English with the aid of a translator to have the defendants and witnesses express themselves fully in their own language. Some of his subjects, notably foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were partially or fully fluent in English, and conducted their interviews in that language.
Goldensohn served as prison psychiatrist until July 26, 1946. He had resolved to write a book about the experience but later contracted tuberculosis and died from a coronary heart attack in 1961. The detailed notes he took were later researched and collated by his brother Eli, a retired neurologist. Robert Gellately, a World War II scholar, edited and annotated the interviews in the book "The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses."
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