Nuremberg Diary

by Gilbert, G. M.

• ISBN13: 9780306806612
• ISBN10: 0306806614
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Summary

In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Goering, Speer, Hess, Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. In the process Gilbert exposed what motivated them to create the distorted Aryan utopia and the nightmarish worlds of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Here are their day-to-day reactions to the trial proceedings; their off-the-record opinions of Hitler, the Third Reich, and each other; their views on slave labor, death camps, and the Jews; their testimony, feuds, and desperate maneuverings to dissociate themselves from the Third Reich's defeat and Nazi guilt. Dr. Gilbert's thorough knowledge of German, deliberately informal approach, and complete freedom of access at all times to the defendants give his spellbinding, chilling study an intimacy and insight that remains unequaled.

Author Biography

G. M. Gilbert was the prison psychologist before and during the Nuremberg trial and is the author of The Psychology of Dictatorship.

Table of Contents

Introduction---The Indicted	3	(32)
TRIAL DIARY, 1945--1946
The Prosecution Opens	35	(47)
Christmas Recess in Jail	82	(19)
The Anglo-American Prosecution Concludes	101	(22)
The French Prosecution	123	(12)
The Russian Prosecution	135	(50)
Goering's Defense	185	(32)
Hess's Defense	217	(4)
Ribbentrop's Defense	221	(16)
Keitel's Defense	237	(18)
Kaltenbrunner's Defense	255	(12)
Rosenberg's Defense	267	(9)
Frank's Defense	276	(15)
Frick's Defense	291	(10)
Streicher's Defense	301	(6)
Schacht's Defense	307	(18)
Doenitz' Defense	325	(8)
Raeder's Defense	333	(14)
Von Schirach's Defense	347	(13)
Jodl's Defense	360	(20)
Von Papen's Defense	380	(14)
Speer's Defense	394	(10)
The Summations	404	(25)
Epilogue--The Condemned	429	(8)
Appendix I--The Judgement	437	(12)
Appendix II--Chronology	449	(14)
Index	463