IQ of nazi defendants at Nurmberg trials

[Jana]

I was reading book about the trial by Airey Neave, that time young British officer and lawyer, and there was interesting part about IQ of the defendants.
Keep in mind it was 1945, when people had lower average IQ than today, and it seems they were lot above average, even the most primitive among them (Streicher), who was said to be a monster and pervert,scored 106.

Higest score was Hjlmar Schnacht, former President of the Reichsbank, who was freed from all the convictions:

Spoiler!

Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was a German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations.

He was never a member of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, but served in Adolf Hitler's government as President of the National Bank (Reichsbank) 1933–1939 and became Minister of Economics (August 1934 – November 1937).

While Schacht was for a time feted for his role in the German "economic miracle", he opposed Hitler's policy of German re-armament insofar as it violated the Treaty of Versailles and (in his view) disrupted the German economy. His views in this regard led Schacht to clash with Hitler and most notably with Hermann Göring. He was dismissed as President of the Reichsbank in January 1939. He remained as a minister without portfolio, and received the same salary, until he was fully dismissed from the government in January 1943.

In 1944 Schacht was arrested by the Gestapo after the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944, because he allegedly had had contact with the assassins. Subsequently, he was interned until the end of the Third Reich in the concentration camps Ravensbrück and later at Flossenbürg. In the last days of the war, he was one of the 134 special and clan prisoners who were transported by the SS from Dachau into the "Alpine Fortress" to Niederdorf in South Tyrol, where they were freed on 30 April 1945.

Despite this, he was tried at Nuremberg, but was fully acquitted.

This is how all of the defendants scored, using German version of American Wechsler-Bellevue oral test for adults:

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

Part of establishing whether or not the Nazis were capable of standing trial was the administration of an IQ test. The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test was adapted from English and given in German, and at the time, it was one of the most widely used IQ tests available. Scores of 65 or less were classified as “defective,” between 80 and 119 as normal, and 128 and above was “very superior.” Only about 2.2 percent of the population scored in that range. The average of all the Nazis tested was 128. This means that they were a lot above from the average human IQ.

I think it is pretty interesting infrmation.

[Mr. Anybody]

[Silver Lining]

Leaders of the most talented nation on Earth are smart.

Wow. What an insight.

Jana, you really aren't the sharpest tool in the box, are ya?

[Jana]

Leaders of the most talented nation on Earth are smart.

Wow. What an insight.

Jana, you really aren't the sharpest tool in the box, are ya?

I wouldn't call Germans most talented nation on earth, but certanly respectable. My IQ is 135, by the way.

[Smeagol]

Of course they were much smarter than the average person. They were the leaders of one of the highest IQ countries on earth.

[Silver Lining]

I wouldn't call Germans most talented nation on earth, but certanly respectable.

12 million Germans feeding their own population and 70% of Europe is unmatched.

My IQ is 135, by the way.

May be true or not, still - not very impressive.

[Jana]

12 million Germans feeding their own population and 70% of Europe is unmatched.

May be true or not, still - not very impressive.

More impressive than yours, and I am a woman. Spare me your fantasies about German superiority, you are one of silier Germans on this forum compared to my friends like Teutone, who do represent true respectable German.

[Silver Lining]

More impressive than yours, and I am a woman.

Spare me your fantasies about German superiority, you are one of silier Germans on this forum compared to my friends like Teutone, who do represent true respectable German.

Nah. I state facts. I am brutally honest with all of you and brutally honest about myself.

Germany and the Northern countries are the only countries left in Europe that are productive enough to maintain modern day standards.

What the world sees as "respectable Germans" are guys that don't fight back, open their wallets for everyone, let themselves be insulted, make themselves small and excuse themselves all the time.

[Jana]

Nah. I state facts. I am brutally honest with all of you and brutally honest about myself.

Germany and the Northern countries are the only countries left in Europe that are productive enough to maintain modern day standards.

What the world sees as "respectable Germans" are guys that don't fight back, open their wallets for everyone, let themselves be insulted, make themselves small and excuse themselves all the time.

I dislike your posts because you seem to be a nordicist who insult southern and eastern Europeans especially Polish people. Teutone on the other hand is not a leftist nor a cuck, yet he is German patriot who respects most of Europeans.
It is not hard to admit Germany is economically prosperous and productive, and one of most important European countries, but if you think it makes you more worthy than any other nation you are a fool.

[Mr. Anybody]

You lose two World Wars.
Your language is not spoken anywhere outside of your own country.
But still a woman who claims to have 135 iq sucks and respects you.

Here! being white..