""They both wanted to get something out of the other one," writer-director Vanderbilt told NPR's Morning Edition host Leila Fadel. "Kelley has the highest ranking living Nazi basically dropped into his lap and sort of goes, this is an opportunity to dissect the nature of evil. Goring, on the other hand, is looking for his last moment on the world stage.""
""Goring was by all accounts an incredibly charming and funny individual," Vanderbilt said. "The fact that he loves his wife the same way that we love our spouses, that he loves his children [daughter] the same way we love our children, to me that doesn't excuse anything. It actually makes it all the more horrifying.""
In 1945 Allied powers tried surviving Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of the fascist party. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley conducted extensive interviews and evaluations of Nazi defendants, including Hermann Göring. Kelley formed a disturbing conclusion that the Nazis were fundamentally no different from average people and that their atrocities could be replicated anywhere. Kelley and Göring developed a complex dynamic in which Kelley sought to understand the nature of evil while Goring sought a final public performance. Göring's charm and ordinary affections for family heightened the horror of his crimes by underscoring moral continuity with everyday humanity.
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