"Less widely known, though, is the involvement of the US psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who spent more than 80 hours interviewing and assessing Goring and 21 other Nazi officials prior to the trials. As described in Jack El-Hai's 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Kelley was charmed by Goring but also haunted by his own conclusion that the Nazis' atrocities were not specific to that time and place or to those people: they could in fact happen anywhere."
"The writer-director James Vanderbilt, whose script for David Fincher's enigmatic serial-killer drama Zodiac similarly explored the real-life case of a professional being corroded by his pursuit of truth, has used The Nazi and the Psychiatrist as the basis of his new film, Nuremberg. Russell Crowe plays the preening, charismatic Goring, Rami Malek plays Kelley, and Michael Shannon is Robert Jackson, the American supreme court justice who was not only instrumental in mounting the trials but went head-to-head with Goring in court."
Douglas Kelley, a US psychiatrist, spent more than 80 hours interviewing and assessing Hermann Goring and 21 other Nazi officials prior to the Nuremberg trials. Kelley was charmed by Goring yet became haunted by his conclusion that the Nazis' atrocities were not confined to that time, place, or people and could happen anywhere. Kelley was ultimately destroyed by that discovery and by the world's reluctance to heed it. A film titled Nuremberg adapts the events and casts Russell Crowe as Goring, Rami Malek as Kelley, and Michael Shannon as Robert Jackson. The film and Kelley’s experience prompt renewed examination of the banality and universality of evil.
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