Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals /

When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorscha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dimsdale, Joel E., 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Run-Up To Nuremberg
  • The Holocaust: How Was This Genocide Different from All the Rest?
  • The Gathering at Ashcan
  • Part Two: Nuremberg
  • The War Crimes Trial: What Do We Do with the Criminals?
  • War Criminals with Psychiatrists and Psychologists?
  • Part Three: Faces Of Malice
  • Defendant Robert Ley: "Bad Brain"
  • Defendant Hermann Goring: "Amiable Psychopath"
  • Defendant Julius Streicher: "Bad Man"
  • Defendant Rudolf Hess: "So Plainly Mad"
  • Part Four: Coda To Nuremberg: Rorschachs and Recriminations
  • Douglas Kelley and Gustave Gilbert: A Collaboration from Hell
  • A Message in the Rorschachs?
  • Malice on a Continuum: The Social Psychologists' Perspective
  • Malice as Categorically Different: Encounters with "the Other"