Jumat, 17 Februari 2017

The Psychiatrist and the Nazi

An American doctor trying to plumb the depths of evil found a strange kinship instead. In August 1945, an ambitious U.S. Army psychiatrist, Douglas M. Kelley, received a plum assignment: a rendezvous with the men widely regarded as the worst criminals of the century. His task was to maintain the mental fitness of the top …

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