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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