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The Nuremberg Interviews

By: Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
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The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a US Army psychiatrist. Dr. Leon Goldensohn was entrusted with monitoring the mental health of the two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide, as well as that of many of the defense and prosecution witnesses. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than 50 years.

Now, Robert Gellately - one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany - has transcribed, edited, and annotated the interviews, and makes them available to the public for the first time in this volume.

Here are interviews with the highest-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails, including Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Here, too, are interviews with the lesser known officials who were, nonetheless, essential to the workings of the Third Reich. Goldensohn was a particularly astute interviewer, his training as a psychiatrist leading him to probe the motives, the rationales, and the skewing of morality that allowed these men to enact an unfathomable evil. Candid and often shockingly truthful, these interviews are deeply disturbing in their illumination of an ideology gone mad.

Each interview is annotated with biographical information that places the man and his actions in their historical context. These interviews are a profoundly important addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

©2007 Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately (P)2021 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

“A gripping work of history, a series of oral narratives that drag the reader, almost by force, into the nightmarish mental landscape of the Third Reich.” (The New York Times)

“A rare document.... Striking proof of the banality of evil.” (Kirkus)

“Goldensohn serves as a down-to-earth Dante in these anterooms to hell, getting one damned soul after another to reveal himself in his own words." (Newsweek)

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Important work

Beyond the usual, what I find most interesting is how on the mark these folks were regarding communism, the Russian threat and the incompatibility of sino/Russian systems and western systems.

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Right from the horses mouth

A real Unbelievably sad historical document.
Great, and so sorrowful listening.
Immensely disturbing.
Cut right off the disturbing kinds of minds that could plan, and operate such an elaborate horror.

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Chilling in every way.

Unable to stop listening. Just a bone chilling look into an awful period of European history

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Great historical information, although a bit dry.

I would recommend this book as it is historically significant to the study of world history. Although the presentation was a bit dry.

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The Nazis lack of self awareness and fanciful attitude…

Always fascinated by the thinking of the Nazis. The right to exist at all cost to innocent people…

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the interactions and questions

this is a great book to understand the motives of the nazi criminals. it also gives you insight on the relationships within the nazi regime.

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TRIED

I actually tried to listen to the entire audiobook but the boredom finally, over, took me.

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Interesting

Is you are a love of WW2 stuff , this is great….it demonstrated how nutty the leadership was

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