Anatomie zla - Tajemství nacistických válečných zločinců – Dimsdale Joel E. (2016)

If Hyde can lurk in Jekyll, he can lurk in any person. Anyone – each of us – can become a war criminal if given the opportunity in the form of a series of coincidences... At the time when the Allies were judging Nazi war criminals at the international tribunal in Nuremberg, American experts, psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and psychologist Gustave Gilbert, attempted to penetrate the psyche of Nazi leaders through extensive interviews, IQ testing, and Rorschach personality tests. Gustave Gilbert believed that the evil in the minds of war criminals stemmed from a pathologically twisted psyche. Douglas Kelley, on the other hand, considered the Nazis to be ordinary people, like those one might encounter on the streets, whose character was shaped by their environment. Who was right? The author of the book, psychiatrist Joel E. Dimsdale, is convinced that both Kelley and Gilbert were correct. He himself had the opportunity to draw from the perspective of sixty years and from the results of the development of modern psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience, and thus took on the task of analyzing in a new light and in detail the nature of four war criminals: Robert Ley, Hermann Göring, Julius Streicher, and Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess behaved sufficiently bizarrely to be suspected of serious...