EPISODE · Mar 5, 2026 · 51 MIN
Nuremberg: the Movie, the Book, and its Author
from Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · host Nicola Quaedvlieg and Alette Smeulers
In this episode of Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal, we speak with Jack El-Hai, author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, the book that inspired the movie Nuremberg.Together with Prof. Alette Smeulers (University of Groningen), we explore:How Jack El-Hai researched and wrote the bookHis insights on Hermann Göring and Douglas KelleyWhat the movie Nuremberg gets right — and what it leaves outWhether Nazi leaders were “ordinary men”What this history teaches us about perpetrators of mass atrocities🎧 Listen now #Nuremberg #HermannGöring #WWII #PsychologyOfEvil #MassAtrocities
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In this episode of Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal, we speak with Jack El-Hai, author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, the book that inspired the movie Nuremberg.Together with Prof. Alette Smeulers (University of Groningen), we explore:How Jack El-Hai researched and wrote the bookHis insights on Hermann Göring and Douglas KelleyWhat the movie Nuremberg gets right — and what it leaves outWhether Nazi leaders were “ordinary men”What this history teaches us about perpetrators of mass atrocities🎧 Listen now #Nuremberg #HermannGöring #WWII #PsychologyOfEvil #MassAtrocities
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