In September 1954 , while he was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State College , Gilbert attended the 62nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in New York . Gilbert was part of a four-person panel discussing " Psychological Approaches to the Problem of Anti-Intellectualism . " In 1961 , when he was the chairman of the psychology department of Long Island University in Brooklyn , Gilbert was summoned to testify in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem . Gilbert testified on May 29 , 1961 , describing how both Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Rudolf Höss tried in their conversations with him to put the responsibility for the extermination of the Jews on each other 's doorstep . Nevertheless , Eichmann appeared in the accounts of both men . Then he presented a document , handwritten by Höss , that surveys the process of extermination at Auschwitz and different sums of people gassed there – under Höss as commandant and according to an oral report by Eichmann . The court decided not to accept Gilbert 's psychological analyses of the prisoners at Nuremberg as part of his testimony
extermination of the Jews
The Holocaust
Gustave Gilbert