James Vanderbilt's 'Nuremberg' explores the human horror in a Nazi leader's story
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Within months of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Allied powers put its surviving leaders on trial in Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of the fascist party and site of propaganda rallies leading up to World War II.
Adolf Hitler had killed himself in his bunker in April 1945, but his second-in-command, Hermann Göring, was among the Nuremberg defendants. Before the trials began in November of that year, American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley spent dozens of hours speaking with and evaluating the Nazi officials.
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That lesser known story, told in Jack El-Hai's 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist,
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