Author: Jack El-Hai
- Fiction
- Planeta Publishing Corporation
- ISBN: 9786070721441
- Release Date: 08-12-2014
Synopsis
Veintidós criminales de guerra nazis se encuentran presos en espera de enfrentarel Juicio de Núremberg a fines de 1945. Entre ellos están el sustituto del Führer, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, filósofo del nazismo y el más astuto y dominante de todos, el mariscal del Reich y jefe de la Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring. Para asegurarse de que los cautivos están mentalmente sanos y preparados para enfrentar el juicio, el Ejército de Estados Unidos envía a Douglas M. Kelly, joven y ambicioso psiquiatra militar, quien se propone aprovechar la oportunidad profesional de su vida: descubrir en estos prisioneros el rasgo psicológico que marcaría su diferencia del resto de la humanidad. Así da comienzo una intensa relación entre el psiquiatra y sus pacientes, y de manera muy especial con Göring. Kelley descubre que el mal tiene sus encantos? «Este libro abre una fascinante ventana tanto a la mente criminal de los nazis como a la naturaleza del mal por sí mismo. Una obra verdaderamente atrayente.»
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 pornographic 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.
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