05
Nov
2025
Dr. Douglas Kelley, the psychiatrist at the Nuremberg trials, found that most major Nazi leaders were rational and normal individuals rather than crazy.
And that's the thing that was a very unpopular take at the time, actually led to his removal from the process because he wasn't fulfilling what the War Department wanted him to say, which is, you know, all Nazis are crazy, you know, ruled by a madman. And this is a unique experience. But that's not what he found. In sitting down talking to the 22 major Nazi sort of names that he was assigned to post-war, he realized that every single one of these people was, you know, as normal. Well, there was a couple that were pretty out there. But, you know, for the most part, he was dealing with rational men.