Nuremberg Diary

A chilling and unrivaled look into the psychology of Nazi leaders standing trial at Nuremberg.

In August 1945, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR convened a tribunal in Nuremberg to try the military and civilian leaders of the defeated Nazi regime. A military intelligence officer with fluency in German, G. M. Gilbert arrived in October to work as the prison psychologist—a position that gave him unrivaled access to twenty-three of the men responsible for crimes against hum...