Douglas Kelley

Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912 – January 1, 1958) was an United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He was charged with ascertaining defendants' competency evaluations before standing trial.

Life and career
Kelley was born in Truckee, California. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley and got his medical degree from the School of Medicine in San Francisco. He continued his studies at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, earning a Doctor of Medical Science in 1941.

In 1942 he was called to duty in the United States Army Medical Corps as chief psychiatrist for the 30th General Hospital in the European Theatre. Along with psychologist Gustave Gilbert, they administered the Rorsach inkblot test to 22 Nazis inmates prior to their trials. Kelley authored two books on the subject: Twenty-two Cells in Nuremberg and The Case of Rudolph Hess.

Upon honorary discharge in 1946, Kelley was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Criminology at UC Berkeley. He committed suicide in front of his wife and children on New Year's Day 1958, ingesting a capsule of potassium cyanide.

Kelley was portrayed by Stuart Bunce in the 2006 BBC docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial. Jack El-Hai's nonfiction book The Nazi And The Psychiatrist explores the complex relationship between Kelley and Nazi Hermann Goering.