Dr. Leon Goldensohn was an American psychiatrist and physician who served in the United States Army. In 1943, he joined the army and was assigned to France and Germany. In 1961, he passed away. Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth-Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University recently. He is the author of Supporting Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945.

He was born in the city of St. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and now resides in Tallahassee, Florida.