The Nazi and the Psychiatrist Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kellet, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds At The End of WW 2

How do people become war criminals? Can a "normal" person be led to commit unspeakable acts,or does the transformation from man into monster require a fundamentally pathological personality? These questions haunted American psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley as he studied imprisoned Nazi leaders up close during the period leading up to the famous Nuremberg tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. A captain and, later, major in the U.S. Army's medical service, Kelley was assigned to ascertain the captured Nazis' fitness to stand trail and to maintain their health, first at "Camp Ashcan," a makeshift jail in Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg, and then at a high-security prison in Nuremberg, Germany. While fulfilling those duties, Kelley also pursued his own agenda, trying to comprehend the character and motives of men responsible for the Third Reich's horrendous crimes against humanity.