Dr. Leonard M. Rosengarten; War Crimes Psychiatrist

Dr. Leonard M. Rosengarten, 78, a psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison in Germany after World War II. As prison psychiatrist, Rosengarten interviewed and consulted with all of the key defendants in the war crimes trials including, Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess. The doctor’s findings were used by prosecutors and defense teams, and he became an authority on leaders of the Nazi government, the S.S. and the Holocaust. After the war, Rosengarten moved to Los Angeles, where he became resident psychiatrist at the Veterans Hospital in Westwood. He set up a private practice in psychoanalysis in 1949 and for more than 40 years was associated with the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He was a charter member and director of the Stoller Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing the understanding and uses of psychoanalysis in the academic community. Rosengarten was educated at the University of Texas and its medical school and held the rank of captain in the Army. On May 10 in Los Angeles of pneumonia.