The most evil of people are actually pretty ordinary

A Jewish man who was translating for the American Psychiatrists who were assessing German War criminals in Nuremberg after the second world war says this:

“Did we learn anything from these psychiatric tests? No. We didn’t find anything abnormal, nothing to indicate something that would make them the murderers they would become.

In fact, they were all quite normal. Evil and extreme cruelty can go with normality. (…)”

Read the article on the BBC website: Jewish US Army translator who got close to the Nazis

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