IQ's of Nazi leaders tried for war crimes

from a letter to me by Grady Towers dated April 13, 199

Used with permission from the author

In 1945, an army psychologist named G.M. Gilbert, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Among other tests, a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue was administered. Here are the results:

1 Hjalmar Schacht 143 2 Arthur Seyss-Inquart 141 3 Hermann Goering 138 4 Karl Doenitz 138 5 Franz von Papen 134 6 Eric Raeder 134 7 Dr. Hans Frank 130 8 Hans Fritsche 130 9 Baldur von Schirach 130 10 Joachim von Ribbentrop 129 11 Wilhelm Keitel 129 12 Albert Speer 128 13 Alfred Jodl 127 14 Alfred Rosenberg 127 15 Constantin von Neurath 125 16 Walther Funk 124 17 Wilhelm Frick 124 18 Rudolf Hess 120 19 Fritz Sauckel 118 20 Ernst Kaltenbrunner 113 21 Julius Streicher 106

You may find these data in The Nuremberg Mind: The Psychology of the Nazi Leaders by Florence R. Miale and Michael Selzer, as well as in The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering by Leonard Mosley.

Notice that there is a clear correlation of IQ with social status. Notice, as I've pointed out before, that success in the practical socio-econimc sense usually goes to those with IQs between 125 and 150. And finally, notice that there are no towering IQs in the 150 plus range, as one would expect from theoreticians. None of these men were original thinkers.

What was Hitler's IQ? We will never know for sure, but we can guess that it wasn't much different from those at the top of this list. He wasn't an original thinker either.

P.S. I'm aware that the W-B doesn't have much more top than these IQs, nevertheless they show no signs of ceiling bumping like the Xenophon Society did on the CMT-T. See page 54 of the Prometheus Society Membership Committee Report.

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