Herman Goering, shown Nov. 5, 1945, once mighty leader of the formidable Luftwaffe and second in command of the Reich under Hitler, appears like this in the mug shot of him on file with the Central Registry of War Criminals and security suspects in Paris. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Defining evil
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In 1945, an American psychiatrist spent weeks analyzing Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering. His assessment raises troubling questions about the ability of ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil.
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Jack El-Hai: Freelance writer and author of "The Lobotomist." His article "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" appears in the January issue of Scientific American.
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Daryl Koehn: Professor in the ethics and business law department at the University St. Thomas, and author of "The Nature of Evil."
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