[1] He obtained his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute,[2] and then joined the United States Army in 1943.
At Nuremberg, Goldensohn replaced another psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, in January 1946, about six weeks into the trials, and spent more than six months visiting the prisoners nearly every day.
He interviewed most of the defendants, including Hermann Göring and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945.
[3] Goldensohn conducted most of his interviews in English with the aid of an interpreter to have the defendants and witnesses express themselves fully in their own language.
Some of his subjects, notably von Ribbentrop, who had been ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Großadmiral Karl Dönitz,[4] were partially or fully fluent in English, and conducted their interviews in that language.