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Authors: Jack El-Hai
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former propaganda minister Hans Fritzsche arrived
Ibid., 125.
53
Andrus rescinded his ban on shoelaces
Overy,
Interrogations
, 71.
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sometimes repeating his favorite jokes
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 169.
53
“a group of men who could probably be counted”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 17.
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Breakfast, often cereal, biscuits, and coffee
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial
, 131.
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former field marshal Wilhelm Keitel’s flat feet
Ibid., 129.
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“were quite glad to talk to anybody”
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”
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some of the easiest Kelley had ever experienced
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 12.
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“If you wanted to know about A”
Schurr, “Gods Come Down.”
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giving all of them the first mental examinations
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, viii.
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Göring, for example, understood English well
Overy,
Interrogations
, 82.
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In one of the abandoned offices
Sprecher,
Inside the Nuremberg Trial
, 66.
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“The sudden change of environment”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 70.
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“Psychologically, I feel because of the environment”
Göring to Kelley.
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“like that of a veteran star”
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 69.
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“an air of pregnancy”
West,
Train of Powder
, 5.
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“Each day when I came to his cell”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 51–52.
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“the rosy dawn of an always better future”
Ibid., 60
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“not by the tale, but by the teller”
Ibid., 71.
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“If you have one German”
Ibid., 72.
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He also enjoyed quoting from a notebook
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 103.
57
On the table in his cell
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 59.
58
“When her final illness came”
Ibid., 60.
58
“Thus did Göring try to appease”
Ibid., 60.
58
“I am quite convinced”
Ibid., 61.
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another soldier malevolently or mistakenly
Göring,
My Life with Goering
, 135–136.
59
Edda resembled her father
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 169.
59
“Germany has more diphtheria”
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”
60
“For
. . .
his friends, for his family”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 62.
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“ability to carry out policy”
Ibid., 52.
60
“complete lack of moral value”
“Goering Was Child in Adult World.”
60
which the Reichsmarschall valued
Ibid.
60
“not the action of a man suddenly realizing he’s a pauper”
Ibid.
60
“Well, here is something just as good”
Alice Kelley to Mandel, September 1, 1985.
61
“a dreary calling indeed”
Schacht,
Confessions
, 409.
61
a tipsy fall while drinking
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial
, 36.
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“immensely paranoid version of history”
Brickner,
Is Germany Curable?
221.
62
a Nazi version of the Nobel Prize
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 42.
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a hat, an overcoat, a handkerchief
Teich, “Inventory: Alfred Rosenberg.”
62
“a tall, slender, flaccid, womanish creature”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 38.
62
“I was more than casually interested”
Ibid., 46.
62
Rosenberg often could not complete his sentences
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 171.
63
“lounging on his cot”
Ibid., 141.
63
Newspapers described his pornography
“Streicher’s Lewd Sex Library.”
63
“He was a dirty old man of the sort”
West,
Train of Powder
, 5.
64
Streicher was no stranger to the Nuremberg jail
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans
, 44–45.
64
“Twenty-four hours a day”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 142–143.
64
Ley tried to commit suicide three times
Ibid., 168.
64
“Fell 2900 meters, pilot killed”
Kelley, Bound Notebook of Interview Notes.
65
He always claimed that a couple of jolts
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 118.
65
“An inner voice drove me forward”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 152–153.
65
“He gave the impression of being intellectually gifted”
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 118.
65
“Often when I talked with him in his cell”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 154, 156.
65
“who always saw the world through rose-colored glasses”
Ibid., 155–156.
66
He told Allied interrogators
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial
, 47.
66
Another nickname, “the movie actor”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 93–94, 98.
66
“Doctor, what shall I do?”
Kelley and Whitman, “Squeal, Nazi, Squeal!”
66
“He walks up and down his cell”
Schurr, “Gods Come Down.”
66
“He is like a little boy”
Schurr, “Gods Come Down.”
66
“a typical bully, tough and arrogant”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 133–134.
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the arrival in Nuremberg of more than a hundred American legal staff
Overy,
Interrogations
, 16.
67
They reminded him of the directors of a business
Kelley, “Nuremberg Trial.”
68
These early investigators had thought
Halleck,
Psychiatric Aspects of Criminology
, 8.
68
in attempting to measure the psychological states
Abrahamsen,
Crime and the Human Mind
, 8.
69
By the 1930s, an enormous study
Bromberg,
Crime and the Mind
, 82–84.
69
Brickner tried to view the crimes
Brickner,
Is Germany Curable?
29, 151, 271.
70
the German nation, including the Nazi regime
Ibid., 32, 42.
70
Brickner took pains to keep from tarring
Ibid., 264–265.
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“I had too much personal history”
Triest, Telephone interview.
75
Göring possessed the most undiluted self-centeredness
Ross, “Dr. Douglas Kelley.”
75
“He reached his goal too late”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 71.
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“That may well be”
Ibid., 72.
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“In fact, when Göring chose”
Dolibois, E-mail interview.
76
During one talk
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 65.
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When the Reichsmarschall once declared
Gilbert, “Goering.”
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informing Kelley that he felt relatively well
Göring to Kelley.
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“He’s very anxious to be considered”
Schurr, “Gods Come Down.”
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Prisoner Fritz Sauckel, who spent three years
Sauckel to Kelley.