1. Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials.
19 Facts About Gustave Gilbert
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Gustave Gilbert's 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt to profile the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler's closest generals and commanders.
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Gustave Gilbert was born in the state of New York in 1911, the son of Jewish-Austrian immigrants.
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Gustave Gilbert won a scholarship from the School for Ethical Culture at the College Town Center in New York.
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Gustave Gilbert attended the City College of New York where he majored in German before switching to psychology.
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In 1939, Gustave Gilbert obtained his PhD degree in psychology from Columbia University.
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Gustave Gilbert held a diploma from the American Board of Examiners in professional psychology.
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In 1945, after the end of the war, Gustave Gilbert was sent to Nuremberg, Germany, as a translator for the International Military Tribunal for the trials of the World War II German prisoners.
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Gustave Gilbert was appointed the prison psychologist of the German prisoners.
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Gustave Gilbert participated in the Nuremberg trials as the American Military Chief Psychologist and provided testimony attesting to the sanity of Rudolf Hess.
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In 1946, after the trials, Gustave Gilbert returned to the US.
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In 1948, as Head Psychologist at the Veterans Hospital at Lyons, NJ, Gustave Gilbert treated veterans of World Wars I and II who had suffered nervous breakdowns.
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In 1950, Gustave Gilbert published The Psychology of Dictatorship: Based on an Examination of the Leaders of Nazi Germany.
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In September 1954, while he was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State College, Gustave Gilbert attended the 62nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in New York.
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In 1961, when he was the chairman of the psychology department of Long Island University in Brooklyn, Gustave Gilbert was summoned to testify in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
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Gustave Gilbert testified on May 29,1961, describing how both Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Rudolf Hoss tried in their conversations with him to put the responsibility for the extermination of the Jews on each other's doorstep.
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In 1967, Gustave Gilbert convinced Leon Pomeroy, then a recent graduate from University of Texas at Austin, to build a clinical doctoral program in the field of psychology at Long Island University.
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At the time, Gustave Gilbert was serving as chairman of the psychology department of Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
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Gustave Gilbert has been portrayed by the following actors in film, television and theater productions;.