Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials.
10 Facts About Douglas Kelley
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Douglas Kelley worked to ascertain defendants' competency before they stood trial.
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Douglas Kelley graduated from University of California at Berkeley and received his medical degree from the School of Medicine in San Francisco.
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Douglas Kelley continued his studies at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, earning a Doctor of Medical Science in 1941.
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Douglas Kelley's diagnosis was confirmed by at least six other psychiatrists from Russia, France, England and the United States.
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Douglas Kelley served as the President of the then Berkeley-based Society for the Advancement of Criminology in 1950 and 1951.
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Douglas Kelley was portrayed by Stuart Bunce in the 2006 BBC docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, which depicts the events at Nuremberg, as does Jack El-Hai's nonfiction book The Nazi And The Psychiatrist.
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Douglas Kelley committed suicide in front of his wife, father and oldest son on New Year's Day 1958 during a family gathering to watch the Rose Bowl game on television.
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Douglas Kelley committed ingesting potassium cyanide as had Nazi leader Hermann Goring, whom Kelley had come to know during his psychiatric evaluation at Nuremberg.
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Douglas Kelley did as threatened and died in the bathroom, leaving no suicide note.