Psychopathy and Aggression

INTRODUCTION
By the summer of 1945 Hermann Goering, the creator of the Gestapo and of the concentrations camps, and the heir-apparent to Adolph Hitler, was incarcerated in a prison in Bondorof-Les-Barns, Luxembourg. Goering was a prime mover of many of the abhorrent atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime before and during World War Il. For the duration of his incarceration, until he killed himself, Goering and other rank and file Nazi officers were interviewed by Dr. Douglas Kelly, a psychiatrist and psychologically tested by Dr. George Gilbert, a psychologist. Gilbert described Goering as an “amiable psychopath,” and Kelley described Goering as narcissistic and egocentrically fixated (Gilbert, 1948.) The psychiatrist also described Goering as having a “normal basic personality” and he was impressed by Goering’s devotion to his wife and children.