AbleChild Review of Netflix’s “Nuremberg”: How Psychiatry Participated & Rewrites Atrocity
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
Netflix’s Nuremberg is a disgraceful reframing of history. It turns Nazi mass murderers into “complex” psychological subjects and centers the emotional journey of an American psychiatrist who bonds with Hermann Göring, instead of the victims and the Nazi doctors and psychiatrists who weaponized medicine. By glamorizing inkblot tests and cat‑and‑mouse mind games with genocidal criminals, the film helps normalize perpetrators and blurs the moral clarity President Eisenhower demanded after seeing the camps. This kind of storytelling teaches viewers to empathize with those who engineered atrocity while the people they destroyed remain almost invisible.
The film chooses to put the fascination and “bond” between a psychiatrist and a top Nazi at the center of the story. The legitimate question we should be demanding an answer to is this: Why, in 2025–26, are we again being asked to emotionally invest in a Nazi and the man who grows close to him, rather than in the psychiatric industry’s own record of destroying human life in the very same field?
History tells us that this is not an abstract concern. In November 2010, German psychiatry formally apologized for its role under Nazism, admitting that psychiatrists helped design racial “hygiene” policies and select victims for killing. In May 2012, the German Medical Association finally acknowledged that doctors were not “forced” but were active, willing participants in Nazi crimes. And in January 2021, the American Psychiatric Association apologized for its support of structural racism in U.S. psychiatry. These late apologies make one thing clear: psychiatry is not a neutral, harmless helper. It is a powerful system that has already shown it can be weaponized against targeted groups, something Americans ignore at their peril.
Let’s not forget that, after the war, the United States and other Western countries deliberately recruited and protected Nazi‑era doctors and scientists instead of fully punishing them. Rather than drawing a hard moral line, our government chose to harvest their “expertise” for the Cold War.
Today, we have allowed modern psychiatry to extend its reach into nearly every aspect of American life, relabeling gifted, creative, and spirited children as “disordered” and “diseased” and pushing them onto powerful psychiatric drugs. The same industry that once helped design “racial hygiene” now relabels gifted, creative children as diseased and in need of psychiatric drugs, continuing atrocities under a modern, medicalized disguise. President Eisenhower’s instinct was for clear, uncompromising justice instead of handing this level of authority to a system with such a dangerous history.
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