Podcast appearances and mentions of Douglas M Kelley

La segunda guerra mundial fue uno de los eventos más trágicos de la historia de nuestra civilización. Se estima que murieron entre 70 y 80 millones de personas. Adolf Hitler, puso el planeta en jaque. Pero una sola persona no puede cambiar el mundo. Hitler estuvo rodeado de un sinfín de colaboradores. Entre todos ellos, tal vez el más importante fuera su segundo al mando y sucesor: Hermann Goering. Goering sobrevivió a la segunda guerra mundial y fue capturado por el bando aliado para ser juzgado por sus crímenes. Durante casi un año y medio, Goering estuvo encerrado en una celda aguardando su juicio. Durante todo este tiempo recibió visitas de un psiquiatra, Douglas M. Kelley. Hoy tenemos acceso a las notas e informes que escribió el psiquiatra durante estas sesiones. En el episodio de hoy del podcast XYZ vamos a acercarnos al final de la segunda guerra mundial y vamos a conocer la personalidad, los miedos y los deseos de un Hermann Goering a punto de ser juzgado por la historia. Además, lo vamos a hacer a través de los ojos del que fue su psiquiatra, un hombre que se enfrentó solo a una de las mentes más despiadadas del régimen nazi, en una minúscula celda y que se asomó a una verdad que le cambió para siempre. ¿Te interesa? Adelante

The 1982 movie Frances tells the story of Hollywood actress Frances Farmer and how her struggles with mental health issues affected her career. We'll be joined by writer and author Jack El-Hai to learn about the film's historical accuracy. Get Jack's Books The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness: https://www.el-hai.com/the-lobotomist The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII: https://www.el-hai.com/the-nazi-the-psychiatrist See More of Jack's Work Special thanks to podcastguests.com for helping to facilitate this interview.   Did you enjoy this episode? You can find the transcript and show notes for this episode at: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/197/ Support our sponsors: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/advertisers Or get ad-free content and exclusive bonus content by supporting the show directly: https://basedonatruestorypodcast.com/support/ Get a peek at upcoming episodes with the email newsletter: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/newsletter/ Want a chance to be heard on the show? Leave a voicemail at +1 (405) 334-4672.

Der US-amerikanische Militärpsychiater Douglas M. Kelley hatte einst in Nürnberg die Elite des Naziregimes auf ihre psychische Verfassung untersucht. Er wollte das Böse im Menschen erforschen. Im vorliegenden Buch werden die Begegnungen mit den Nazis geschildert.| Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Henriette Heise, Verlag Die Andere Bibliothek. 320 Seiten, 22 Euro.| Rezension von Stefan Berkholz.

Writer Jack El-Hai worries about his own state of mind when he spends time in the files of the psychiatrist who examined Nazi leaders. Jack El-Hai is the author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books) and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (Wiley). He has contributed articles and essays on science, medicine, and history to The Atlantic, Wired, Scientific American Mind, and many other magazines. Jack teaches nonfiction in the MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College and lives in Minneapolis. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $1 million in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Joining Göring in the detention center were the elite of the captured Nazi regime—Grand Admiral Dönitz; armed forces commander Wilhelm Keitel and his deputy Alfred Jodl; the mentally unstable Robert Ley; the suicidal Hans Frank; the ographic propagandist Julius Streicher—fifty-two senior Nazis in all, of whom the dominant figure was Göring.To ensure that the villainous captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise their mental well-being during their detention. Kelley realized he was being offered the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. So began a remarkable relationship between Kelley and his captors, told here for the first time with unique access to Kelley’s long-hidden papers and medical records.Kelley’s was a hazardous quest, dangerous because against all his expectations he began to appreciate and understand some of the Nazi captives, none more so than the former Reichsmarshall, Hermann Göring. Evil had its charms. THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai

Jack El-Hai joined me today for a conversation about his latest book, The Nazi and the Psychiartrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII. Mr. El-Hai’s book deals with the top 22 surviving Nazi officials and Dr. Kelley, an American Army Psychiatrist who was placed in charge of their mental health. His job was to ready the men for the Nuremberg Trails, but saw an opportunity to discover, if it existed, the Nazi personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices