Psychiatrist Douglas Kelley Describes Hermann Göring’s Personality During The Nuremberg Trials

A psychiatrist sat face-to-face with Hermann Göring at the most consequential trial in modern history, and reached a conclusion that unsettled everyone who read it. Douglas Kelley wasn’t asked to judge guilt. He was asked something far more dangerous: was Göring insane, or fully aware of what he had done? The answer challenged the way evil itself was understood after World War II. This story traces how Kelley described Hermann Göring’s personality, why that assessment ma