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Authors: Jack El-Hai
78
“For three months I have been writing”
Göring to Emmy Göring, October 10, 1945.
79
“an honest and very humane man”
Göring,
My Life with Goering
, 136.
79
“Finally, finally a letter from you”
Emmy Göring, to Hermann Göring, October 19, 1945.
79
“You can well imagine how inexpressibly happy”
Göring to Emmy Göring, 10/28/1945
80
“To see [Edda’s] beloved handwriting”
Göring to Emmy Goring, October 28, 1945.
80
“It is my opinion that Frau Göring”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 62.
80
gave him a distinctive military deportment
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 27.
80
in accordance with a suggestion from his astrologer
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 175.
80
“I had never flown that type of plane”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 24.
81
even calling Hess insane
Gilbert,
Psychology of Dictatorship
, 123.
81
Churchill’s viewing of a Marx Brothers movie
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 72.
82
“I denied any knowledge of military events”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 25.
82
he disapproved of Hess’s drab taste
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans
, 111.
83
it was rumored that Hitler had even selected Hess’s wife
Neave,
On Trial at
83
Nuremberg
,
77.
83
Hess refused to submit to similar treatments in the future
Gilbert,
Psychology of Dictatorship
, 126.
83
“such fallacious claims are typical”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 26.
83
Hess flipped again
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 121.
83
Jews were hypnotically controlling people
Gilbert,
Psychology of Dictatorship
, 126.
83
Hess tried to kill himself
“Rudolf Hess: Report of British Observations and Findings.”
84
The dull weapon
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 79; Gilbert, Psychology of Dictatorship, 126–127.
84
The Russians, however, insisted
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans
, 119.
84
“Hess immediately recognized Göring”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 72.
84
his personal articles included a pocket watch
Teich, “Inventory: Rudolf Hess.”
84
“He was—as I expressed”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 73.
84
“where the only requirement”
Ross, “Dr. Douglas Kelley.”
85
during one of their earliest encounters
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 27.
85
“While his demeanor was strictly formal”
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 172, 174.
85
“Hess smiled, agreed to sign”
Kelley, “Rudolf Hess.”
85
“a profound neurotic of the hysterical type”
Kelley, “Statement on Hess.”
85
“All through my life I’ve felt people might kill me”
Kelley, Bound Notebook of Interview Notes.
85
“and it is extremely likely that he will”
Kelley, “Statement on Hess.”
85
The psychiatrist wrote that it was possible
Kelley to Commanding Officer.
86
“if one considers the street as sanity”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 35.
86
“We could have found out in two days”
Davis, “Hitler Gang Just Ordinary Thugs, Psychiatrist Says.”
86
“although in more than 1,86 such cases”
Kelley to Commanding Officer.
86
“Hess believes or has pretended”
Ibid.
86
rejected using it in Hess’ case
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 31.
86
“Don’t you remember me, Rudolf?”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 118.
87
“Don’t you know me? You don’t recognize me?”
Overy,
Interrogations
, 406.
88
“wanted to preserve the fiction”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 35.
88
“completely crazy”
Overy,
Interrogations
, 121.
88
“We knew all along that Hess wasn’t really normal”
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 166.
88
“I can smell a Jew a mile away”
Fry,
Inside Nuremberg Prison
, loc. 833.
88
“unbelievably obscure and hazy”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 44.
89
He told Kelley that his plan to elevate Nordic people
Anspacher, “Psychiatrist Says Hitler Was Neurotic.”
89
“This young officer is working for his country”
Dolibois,
Pattern of Circles
, 171.
89
He looked decrepit for a fifty-two-year-old man
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 99.
89
“extraordinary stupidity”
Schacht,
Confessions
, 406.
89
“a good possibility, however, that once he is sentenced”
Kelley, “Psychiatric Profiles of Nazi Defendants.”
90
“Your dark eye I have so often seen”
Schirach, “
Dem Tod
.”
90
Visitors to Schirach’s cell
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg
, 97.
90
“He had intervened to save several Jews”
“Interview with Baldur Von Schirach.”
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nearly all of the Nazi prisoners suffered
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, ix.
91
“I was to them a symbol”
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 173.
91
which did not include
Schacht,
Confessions
, 406.
91
“At least we Catholics are responsible”
Sprecher,
Inside the Nuremberg Trial
, 76.
92
He now made a point of thanking prison staff
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 94.
92
Frank had left the Church
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 175.
92
“He feels essentially guilty”
Kelley, “Psychiatric Profiles of Nazi Defendants.”
92
“It was obvious that Frank”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 178–182.
92
“one of the most integrated personalities”
Kelley, “Psychiatric Profiles of Nazi Defendants.”
92
“It is my opinion that Hitler used good judgment”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 128–129.
92
Many wanted works by Goethe
Andrus,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer
, 131.
93
“Authorize death of those people”
Kelley, Bound Notebook of Interview Notes.
94
“the most useful single technique”
Kelley,
22 Cells in Nuremberg
, 28.
94
“one of the advantages of having your subject always on hand”
Kelley, “Preliminary Studies of the Rorschach Records.”
94
“Perhaps if the Nazis had not so whole-heartedly curtailed”
Ibid.
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Kelley’s interpretation of Göring’s results
Kelley, “Rorschach Report on Hermann Göring.”
95
“a picture of a person of considerable intellectual endowment”
Ibid.
95
“not knowing how revealing”
Kelley, “Hess Rorschach.”
96
“although many of [the prisoners]”
Kelley, “Preliminary Studies of the Rorschach Records.”
96
The psychiatrist advanced a diagnosis of brain damage
Ibid.