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FOREWORD
Aim
present an The aiid of this memorandum is (1) to
by the
how the TJ. S to offer some suggestions as to condition Government might now influence his mental
do so), and and behavior (assuming it sees fit to custody, after might deal with him, if taken into
Germany's surrender.
personThe proper interpretation of Hitler's und9rstanding_the ality is important as a step in
E3Icholo2L-2l'llJ.I2lSi^
deni-god, can tlon of this man to the status of a tl.>iit he and his be explained only on the hypothesis
the ne^da, longings, ideology have almost exactly met Germans. and sentiments of the majority of
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Data supplied by the Office of Strategic services Hitler's MEIN KAMPP, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1959 Hitler's MY NEW ORDER, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941 Heiden, K., HITLER, A BIOGRAPHY, London, 1936 Rauschnlng, H., VOICE OP DESTRUCTION, New York 'Baynes, H, G., GERMANY POSSESSED, London, 1941
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in the attempt to MEIN KAMI^.has prpved reieardlng personality. discover the underlying forces of his Sales, has also MY NEW ORDER, edited by Roussy de
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iritten under my Psychol., 1942, 37, 295-308), was of the ideas general auper^/ision and contains most and myself on this topic of professor G, W. Allport
in the fall of 1941. 3o far as they were crystallised in toto as an This artlcie by Vernon is included the necessity introduction, thereby relieving ma of analysis that follows) of rests-ting (in the detailed
all th^
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known facts.
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containing
A.
B.
C.
^lef Analyala
of Hltlera Personality.
D.
;the i?reatiiaent
of the.
G8rnn People.
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achieved by
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Counteractive Aggres-
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superior (counteraction out of wounded pride), encouraged by moments of extreme self- confidence in
and
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a3pe
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brute strength ;
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domihation.
hated enemy.
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By seducing
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unspoken needs and cravings ; and in this sense he has been created, and to a large extent invented, by the
people of Germany.
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must be courted with the arts and skills known to passion oniy;,iMid It Is not unlikely that the emotional
soiirce of his oi*glastlc speeches were childhood tantr
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as a boy advanced, supported by much evidence, that blinded) Hitler was severely shocked (as it were, his parents, by witnessing sexual intercourse between
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swear revenge, and his reaction to this trauma was to the lost glory to dream of himself as reestablishing
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1918 motherlapd (Hitler < term for Germany) in a short aa this Qnerg^ ftf^revenge released, after
period of shpote and hpterical blindness. Hitler exhibited This would expiflJi the fact that
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Unlike Gpering and other associates. Hitler is no neurotic healthy amoral brute. He is a hive of sec ret
compunctions and feminine sentimentalities whicfr
haTro
embffti# had to be stubbornly repressed ever since he revenge his career of ruthless dominance and
on
Every
new act of unusual cruelty, such as the purge of and 1934, has been followed by a period of anxiety
depletion , agitated de .lection and nightmares
which
Hitler wants
notfaittg so
much
of without guilt feelings; but despite his boasts not been having transcended Good and Evil this had
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a reaction
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thisi
the aggressive
decision of
of fortune on the Russian front, however, the number of frustrations have, increased and Hitler's counter-
There
As time goes on, therefore, we can anticipate ah increase in the intensity, frequency and duration
of Hitler's periods of collapse, and a decrease in
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Inhabited
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many claim.
(lacking,
His creativity
He is the
author and leading actor of a great drama. Unlike other politicians. Hitler has conducted
his life at certain seasons as a Romantic artist
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metaphora
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'a
paaaive
(hypertrophy of the
The aeccnd
feminine component
hia nake-up)^
tendency
which may be expected in one who haa aasiduoualy repreased^ out of swollen pride, the aubmiaaive reactions
(complianoie;^ co-operation, payment of debts, expression
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This erotic pattern, however, is not a strong force in Hitler s personality, nor does it comprise
his entire libidinal investment,
it alternates with
other patterns
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thit*
point
the
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(i)
sexuals;
(v)
by several informants, are very suggestive of homosexual panic; (vi) some of Hitler's interpretations
of human nature, such as when he says that the people
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A simplification
would be
that;
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(a)
mobile individual.
Thus
Hitler instinctively retreated from too close association with the workmen of Vienna
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(b)
1.
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diminish the paina and perils of an isolated egocentrism; and (iii). he has beeA aupi'emely successful
superiority.
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insanity is sanity .
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trusted follower:
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by
by Judas.
with for a while and create a legend in conformity arrange to have th ancient pattern. If Hitler could 9wne paranoid llk9. himself ^ kill him, then He a
Jew,
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which would unlike ly, that he will choose this course, viw, first be very undesirable from bur point of to all because his death would serve as an example death-defying his followers to fight with fanatical it would energy to the bitter end, and second, because who led insure ^tier's immortality - the Siegfried
Slav. the Aryan hosts against Bolshevism and the
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were hidden standpoint, because, even if the fact deteriorate from the people, morale would rapidly the hero would as rumors spread, and the legend of Hitler became be severely damaged by the outcome. If hands of insane, he should eventually fall into the
the Allied Nations
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Hitler
liaay
commit suicide .
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vowed that he would commit suicide if his plans do miscarried; but if he chooses this course ho will
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him on the top of little refuge that was btiilt for (Berchtesgaden) the mountain behind the Berghof troops come to take him There alon0 he will wait until either (i) blow prisoner. As a grand climax he will dynamite; or (ii) up the mountain end himself with
and throw hiiraelf make a funeral pyre of hia dwelling or (iii) kill himon it (a fitting oBtterdammerung;
Chriatophe); or self with a silver bullet (Emperor This outcome, (iv) throw himself off the parapet.
unlikely. .undesirable for us, is not at all
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, Hitler may die of natu ral causes
country... Hitler may aeek refuge in a neutral of his associates might This is not likely, but one Switzerland in a plane and drug him end take him to should stay there to write theti persuade him the t he Since the German folk. his long-plfenned Bible for people would seriously the Hero's desertion of his be more damage the legend, this outcome would desirable than some- of the other possibilities.
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been swayed in asking these predictions we have chief concern most by the supposition thet Hitler's
probable today.
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of Hitler's will provide a trafgio ending for the drama element sensational career; and thus contribute the to the resu rrection and perpetuation
Allies do that
legend? will spoil the tragedy and thus kill the following plen is As an answer to this question, the
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(a)
him in
and house (such as St. Elisabeth's, Washington, D. C.) for his a comfortable dwelling specially built
I.et
occupancy*
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,
Appoint
committee of psychiatriata
how
If
the
taken in a routine, atilentific and undramatio manner pictures will become quite tireaome ofter a while
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the world." crack-brained fanatics who try to dominate powerful deterrent to As such it could serve as a
importance to psychiatry ity would be of considerable documented book and the publication of a carefully act as a deterrent on the subject would not only future would-be Hitlers, (publi3ho4 in popular form) to contribution to science. "but would ^e a significant T^^f>^T. Wow and the .Cosaation of HdstJlitJes. 2.
accelercte Hitler8 The aim should be either (i) to deterioration, to drive him insane; or (ii)
the perpetuation of his to prevent hip frop irisuring
mental
legend by ending
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nervous brerkdown, able for accelerating Hitler'? here. None could be but they will not be oonsidored repeated military setbacks. 30 certsiniy effective as
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measures which Shall limit ourselves to a few from arranging might serve (2. (a)) ijo detar Hitlep himself, and (2. (b)) a hero's or a martyr's death for of his legend to make him believe thft the immortality
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their and America) to l^ave them treacherously to be a sly fate by getting himself killed. This will trick of his to insure his own prestige and future
fame.
cares He does not care for the Gorman people; he
He is ho better than a sea-
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front ludicrously forward to hie death on the Russian Germans he a guilty conscience over the noble
(out of
also
and cartoons of his arranging to have himself shot, this as others of his committing suicide. Interpret people, the easy way out, a cowardly betrayal of his
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use of these By the repeated and not too obvious by a conflict two messagea Hitler wduld be faced might be inbetween (D a self-annihilation which a peaceful terpreted as a cowardly betrayal, and (2)
the Allies and so alloir himself to be taken by ther^ was to be Only later tould he discover that is no .Saint Helena for him. This trick of ows the resurrecjustified by the necessity of pi?eventing to rouse tion of the memory of Hitler aa a superman revolutionaries. future generations of criminals aid
p.
anpi pestions
I.
Tftening
the>>^kdo#t^
th^ir Whole trust Hitler.- the German people have put military coiamander in Hitler. He is their:tai^ > as h6
cdiiild
be their man.
the conduct Having taken the entire responsibility for and so of affairs, he has become tl^eir conscienc e
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his omniscience long as possible to the illiision of Vvhen it because without this they have nothing. catasf.v. ^t^iftnchantment wil l be sudden and
comes,
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sentiments not overloo)5 the power of wopds to change may prove and attitudes. The foiLlowing suggestions
of sow value
1.
(a)
leaflets effective wethod would be th^t of prlntit^^ containing the r^ames^ ran^ and regiments of German
hardly succeed in
p'reventJlig an^^ious
parents from
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to refer to
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unconditional suirrehder ;
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A pamphlet oomparing the terms of the Versailles with Germany's method of dealing with conquered
couhtriea shouid.be given wide circulation* after the 3^ Treatment of the German Peop le (^ftflflfltton of Hostilities. '
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tho^ OOAupiOd IfAa^lled- forces I that aiwwitanaously civilians in will be upl-lsings of slava labor and of blood will be C^^cupied territories; that raUch GeraaA
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eixlta of ^ixit^ma
indiyldualisiH *
6 ftalda J^bla
i^ch
f ha soil ^ll
m
the
.'
laid for
ft
^ewmm, m^ w^V
%<j
im
Alliaa dll
dBB^litai!i|.t
'
cjerawayi
mil
tftaia^
affteiaht
guaji^aafeaea
agaihat
tala^aa
<
ofraw niatenala.
!tii*
m^i
m-.'-
- 47 -
thy
'6r
<5stla4 ta
gmem
the
eaithj|
(3)
tlJf^lJ
there
feh
tje
gooi
&&ai|.ea
Mght
]jfi
realise thttt
ar deaUiit ?lth i
mti&n
staff oring
f^m
ei*
pArahelcl tredti
pereoutt6s;
o(iateiB|t
sf
l*o^6iiiaa.
aad
aad
"fiyy
* all
*Ji<i^
adapted te the
iffuat
6&hir4i'aioh
e>^
Qwrasuay.
jt attesiftiaa tht va
siQ^0as
$tU\
,
Pi rat Step ^-
'The
(i)
caji
not t^
twtod'
- 48 -
(conteietisj;?'
il|(|pt,
/'..
fiJP
' ' .
6r/^lfed|^
oeT
aeet^i are
(ti)
|il3SlM*^ "^^
segiindnt0 that
tJteited
m%tm%%t with
a Bkiftefy t>t
^oBffiAhddd
(SettHfthS
ahoiad b
eoa^lldd ta
i^^ak
adifiitj
fhes^
sm
dsgehepttes (deafir6tl6'so-ldleis)
seidiejiis) we' wei^e
b&rbarlfeft^
T?he
(litUSSiSft
led te expect***
mf-^
efficiency*
<b)
Second Step ,- The potential WortBj of the patient ahouid oe fully acknowledged .
' .
feapecta*
^Phla
hunger
ahotil<I
be appeaaed aa aoon
fftgethei* we can
face
the worXd***
It, is aa if he thought:
'
aon."*
rjT5.^l^5:^vr5.-:rprf-.>--.?)!r^"'t':*>'<"'-'-
.'
Klfe^'
- 49 -
(11)
aimy
of
'
oeciii>*at Ion
tif-oopS
should he instructed
TWj
tfoa.
teach
thfl
double purpose*
It will
.
provide edu^atioh
tittej
Also the
w^r*-
- 50 -
'"
.
3 (0)
-.
.;
>s
FiPi4a ta
being
ally replaaed
hia
fey piplda
i baing able to
r%m
abave
ift
<itm raaobanisJiia
jparaea
over hla
pi'opei?
aalf*
Ijui?in$ the
of theae
6ormany *
5*he
(Jerttart
whieh
oai?
to
A aerlea of ai-tlclea, edltoriaXs, eeaaya and short baoka ahoiaid M;^wyitteft noi by Oormaha in this oonntry
,
(Thojoaa Mann,
^aicled
poaalbly
W siiggeationa
tt^
psyahlatsi'ista/
^*
-^^^-rr^^r-^^
- 51 -
^ apiade plume
'
truil*
In
tiiBOi
tftjs
ilaja;,
&*i&ti^l4 i
*
l^iSr
people 8i&old be
la^deratjaad^ tfaat
^K^ *oi^l4
m^HM
^^m
i*awifetli4^
and
\ia&fi^j?y rlfetJiDts
6f tastittetm^l
feil*eea*
Tb AlXioa sbimld b^
thai** oira onre and
.
admit
aladeods*
l>Q
5^
(a)
ho
catt
b^ perattadod t
.
outaldd
gi?oupst.
crOopoJ^fetd
fh* group
hfii
joiaa ahould
a goal#
W^^^^^^^^Wi^S^^W^
- 52 -
(il)
Qermany .^ If Germany is to
^e converted,' it is of the utmost importance that aome strong end efficient super- government be estalvlished as soon cs possible, providing a new world conscience , that her people can respect.
Germans
anjist
As said above,
a Fuehrer, an Absolute, a
national ideal.
It can
nations.
a police.
attract the A supranational symbol would. eventually deference that is now focussed upon Hitler. Lacking
such
a
as At the proper time Germany should be insocieted nations an equal in whatever le6gue or federation of
has->
.
therapy of
single paranoid
enemies.
of us to try it.
'^^^^^^i^'^^/ry'^f^'^y- :-
>
--^A;-
'^
- 53 -
;w?ul^
^Ji
X^deiim3.H4
been ^Oti*faao$8t teachers and fedultles hsd dealing 'Phfl f^reatest problem will he In
.
yOUSg Ni*
Germany
the.
im tMa ^^
Allied Vl6tOirr
iU
have no permanently
' :
ltt]>ort&i3t oeiJdeilU0n<ses
m'.\;
m^^^m^^'^-^^WW^^'
^:^'f^'^r;-^yi^rr^^i^-{i,^^^^^
'
^^^>-..
sm^tm
HltXey the
mn
-^
tp^
^t
w*
H*;
.^essftSQ
W-
FTjr,
,_^
.*v^-^-'^^'''A^:'^^T??^*^"^Vj?<^F25^-*>
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<
;-
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.J .55
itliie^
tlsaa the
lauat
begin
"by ftaking
who
.t!p
1857 in
.the
village
of Spital,
Oeorg Hiedler^
bojce the
Aloif
Only
As Heiden aays,
ever made
of.
1 January S, 1877
^=?V
^. Ik.
;
V^^:^-':^
flit
W^
pother '
jt^m^opa*
raaay.
im^m
wa apt
1si>
suggest; thot
lif^ibpnn
Ocorg HledUl
tK
7b ea^^atorti oo both
t'^'fl* ^^
^6eat
^^
dltriet
inlrt*ed
Al^ii
r
Si-ti9i*#
t Tl?t
ft
fert^ a6hivd tha pOUitlon of'ftn Austrian cu#tftBi t^ adue^tioa Jfor tfel* poeltlon wc the ^rli.ftial*
rlret
i<l
oet*'|.but4a Pf hie
mfej
1883*
AlSha
yo0r9 h4#
Sdfiioi?!
di^
weeUii loteaf*
"J*,
(5^
he marrifd
Klcta
poXjj3lit
ft
dtfttaat otisln*
j,
girl to
^:^''L
v^
-\
- 57 -
retiirn aft# ta
yiiii^i
(* <Jtni
in heir acwiai
tiitti|i)#.
S8 dodtei*
describes he j*
in-her
0iirl]f
tbviUn t$
fl
hair
e(atly pXitdd
eicih:>esilYO
Xdg
o^l
gyy
hX^
^yei,
itfilfl$f|
Modest, kindly
wOin&n*.
Addlf
l$0tg
fts
fftl*
ea can be
his own
Ji&thes
years *^
fhia i^
0S
fi
large factor in
the eYideaot
80di8ti
In retiirn^
himself admitg
mother, and'
wtuifl
prostratad
wltsli
Heiden points out that the tincertain details of Hitler* a family have had to be collected from stray publications, that Hitler is reticent to the point of arousing suspicion, about his life story (8)
* Aloi8 children we^e Alois, 1882 (son by first wife); Angela, 1883 (daughter by second wife)r Oustav, 18851887; a daughter, 1886-1889; Adolf, 1889; Edmund, 1894-1900; Paula, 1895 or 1896 (children by third wife).
-.5$
e0waia
ft^<l
6<?ia3?al
^Uef
(9)
feufe
8i(",m
\?l5lk^
Hta
if99t<iei%ionii
mm
iiwih eo irero
free -*
tn tbi. JBduiatseipat
owtaaialiat
la
tfae penuto^s,
end
About M&i^>"e?lf
except y>hB% be bii&el#
idtjicfttiOfii
Wd know little
ttlU
mi -* that he e^rly
rntd to
t^
laeke
pt
tb^
hiai;
twojs
thttt
with hia
be.
m
fm':-^
t ^fjrital^
biii fitl'>Sdttltlstti
>f
|da*
aXX *ft*
t 1912 h *
Muni d&
ati<i
fioma
tma
Through all
Shortly thereafter he
,
-60
formed*
rate waiter.
averags height.
The eyes
There is
alV)*
%his t^ct
has caused an amazing number of different* deaoriptiona of hia actual eye color.
- 61 ^
Ms
handa.
cit
eaae;
in dompany
He
At
-^
First
i
Kampf
-
begins with
Etcmei
NattiPe,
by warding off
work* (9, 84).
^v
Id^Hias
may be,
fchey have e
quellty computable to
t^eligloiMl
exporienoe.
diylne miaalon
a .martyr fa
(16.)
>
death (16)*
wayto
'SPpward
ohr.
one the
ona.
He adorns as
inn.oi*
have
no matte
jB^
what hcpgena.
tim
- 6$
rt
II
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ooct
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li
gig
'
I I
'ti9et4. V
I
for
I
.I
il l
hltt
th^thd
Is
When he Is declaiming
At such
tinges he is
It
have determined to
educatloii of youths
car3|
they become
display; j^owdr^
bpfi
only
cortteifflpti
"^y gl^eat paiiUcaX''o|portliiilty li.fs in my dellbf?:%td U8d of poiver ^t o titte imati there ere still illusiohS' abrocd 60 t.o the forces that iftoiald history" (16^ 271).
64
l^br
those
iho
who tried to oppose 3H.tiflh imperial powetf For the masses ovea -whom he
contempt.
htos
-a
(9^).
'tuiily
sway. he feels
He compares- t^em to
woman
whoi
prefers
He
ti^^ and
Houses
the.,
will of an
Xooeliaeas (^)
>
T>eo<nifle
hitJiaelf
powej?,.
of the
Jail
at least in childhood"
(9-5
And thare id
d.Yideu(j
^^ It is interesting to. note: tteeit the wnr agoli^st. Bi?it&s;ti appe<^j?a Qttly to, have .l^i'Oken out Ijeeauae .Httler was oovlnood that she would n (St end could forces. iiot H^laat tfto fitf^ngt^ of the denaan ared
w^
of it from hla days in Vienne (7)
.
that
tb(9
tremendo-ua'
ly thrilling experience f or
III
II
ii
II
Ji t
II
ftQQB#-^ AD^;;1^392ilti8iD a
11^1
"i
'I
II
Europe
hajj
of.
all aorts.
The Jew
nature* (1$)*,
not only
111 Oeriiiaiiy
hi deatunietion may
thiJi i^ointi,
world be aa^ed*
It it at
too, thfit
-.^^''.
66 .
find axprdsaiofi.
inaejf'
emotioaal
hdfiith]r;
atroina.
mojor
el^iJiont
Am *'
Thet Hitloi?8
we have do not, however, tell ua explicitly what It la that is wriohg with Hitler 'a aex life*
Prom the
well e many
R?>bra,
as*
no intlmotas at 11,
addressed with
whom be
and It la
pokltioa of latitocoy.
Most
o^'
B-f
.s
57
-.
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HBhfsoh
tVh
Sts?isai3r
As far as can
lie
oacertrlnedf. It 1&
oompletely locking.
in= r^spiact,.
evon contemptuous
(71^^;
notT:y?e
the.
pdrtner of
choice (8)
'
It
la;
Hitler fascinating
company,
attd ila
(16;;
^t
In one cftaa,
I'n^
fit of paaalon,,
(13),. or he so
abased
Finally,
syphilis in
Hoieohk atot<jents
(8)
thpt
"Isheite
im eloquenti underatctemont*'
fO-.
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68 -
*
.
Hitlef
3 n ee<S to
baen aald
abova.-''^
Bvei* ainoa
Hitler
aiaeovary
wor^
The manbeif
ani$
In private,
eaoh individual
be harangued,
father intended
hiib
Aa' ptihrer
hla intereat
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ttgaiikltt Kft^iirt
(1SI)
td kBdws
It)
thdii* i'an^ltien
ffi^
aie^
inapifwtidn
his
aetioni.
fo^
ift
jad di-ifik/
thd plotii
Ife
efaoftett
thf towa
in
linigi<*
Infludlida
fiwraii!*
Among
ot tj|i<;oaeiO(ialf
h has
a
copied
iriLgnr*tf tturgid
and botot^aaMii
mkm^P with
of
hmtt
'
Xti
to cdfiaidar
Hitler*
ourn
11.
Prom the analytic point of view this may well be interpreted as a compensation for sexual difficulties.
^S?!j^''
^-'
70
of
otherrfl
(7)*, Seme, of
th, *or4c8
|'a4?
%mt ^
txt*ttt<
/l>wavaj?i
airplay
aoja*
fl^l^
oj?$nljiWoi aad
IftWJjf
'Qolor,
1jljo\j|jb
1?bi?e
t not?hig oHglJMil..
papiOovip*iott,
jftp1S3f
.of
il^te^y^lii^ **,
aad wifeh
p.9(p1q
df<ilat
j?Xi6^;
f. of
%mr& ^mt&iii
(jf
O^bft
QOnMlwIadt iHi^lmaT^d
49lSQi
th
|^'3tty lidg5$
fu*^ii!ff.^^vtden
with
ijiiX4tirjr
all
aoii^ts
of
vaiP3f
hla oowaaiad
dai^s art
and
it ia
that Hitler
artlatlo
a,
|j?aa.tst eiifeUt*
H -apahda
m9v
ajfehlUaoli^'a dtoaigaa
and all
"by
i4>ffl
'dsi^
a]*a
tLppiffivea
Garmany.
Hla
.
4evaty*fl*jc!0tbi0a(i
.$ro\j0aida
fti^a
all eafeaa^laa of
emphaaaa*
:;;^';rr''^
j^-^vr'' <->r;r^c->?:'
i^^
by
t&
niiay wi^ltara
fiftuiiclmlDg
(6; IS),
He aettbaa nmcb of
tiba
decay, of oivillza*
This
of
Mtler'a ie all
thi| nojre
8tH-klng.aqiong
eateip* and fond
thftt
$0^4' heairy,
of drinking.
at
He 1*1
foi?
cated, ia'nev^rtheleaa
ft
Wlue
auppoaed to be important .
It ia hardly
:*
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q^i
opportwoe moment*
^t2er
oantflLQt
apd
thMl
i^ oh
OJP
%d b
Pfern^
of
la an
suld to
aji'
iattdei#*;aAdl&g
H^
ISurppefih,
milieu*
bati coa*-
Americiin points
o.f
to
nature.
At times
rF.
J ^^
n
wky
.(is)*
M^ tAimat
irox>l
steadily,
but;
with expXoislve
Sven
ha
cmtburaii of
ttotiliritjr
Aisd
with
wton^
Oi^
sev^rai dcc^aions,
bafora
1]&
.hiau
tha eaae ot
bxOfldcast
#iJi?
ha was
ataddailiX:^
oosnait auicida
thi|
pXana ot the
THE SOXmCES
<yp
itlTLM^S MAIADJ^STltENfS
Traits 4
t>t
lew
n
Id pfobabXf falla
ixi
thlatlc
l^gj*6up
tbotigh ^^^rglng on th
pyknic CIX).
grdi2|$
of teinpex<atndnta*'
&f
$y)landi(}8i0iiphy,
/
iaoj*a
>
piobabXy
itiitpoi'tant,
a atrongiy
flithef .waa
llhia
Ovai* tith
rebeXXiouaneaa to lt#
Further, we
of^
hia mother f
possibXe
___^_^.,.^_..____^,^,
^^ Note HitXer'a frequent and unusuaX use of the woihI MbtherXahd for Germany (9).
^^ HitXer's hatred of meat and Xpve of sweets ia said to be often found in cases harboring an unconaciOTia hate of the mother (X5).
':-',-ri^-yiKJ--^fTJ'T^-,.}-'^^T^'^
f^C'-''
,.?::-
..
,.
'^
-.,,,..,.,
j...^T./v-;;:-i7^;.;!%.r^>/.,,.-... ,.. :;
,..:
;'v^?;;/i?r^rV^
75 *
t;h
consistent
fi|ilu|*e
fai^ui^
to.
arrlTS
at. aiiy
there was
l?"he
toirtird
^ew
\ip*
course,
hift
^t
the blood
race.
f Wsgrie?
a-ljO
for
ift
a-
moi?e
Thla
^^ His rejection of the Jew may also stem from the rejection within himself of the passive gentle elements which are prominent in Hebrew-Christian thought.
77
-.
to
thi
source
of beth.
With $ f^thei*
**
Terrified by
the hatred in his
aliL
being is then
i^nge^ tmf
nm
thr p&2*ahold
Of grandetuf
typtf^
#ith
ileitis ion*
must be treated as But it Is the sort df explanation which fits known psychological facts
such*
n
J'swi
a the aourtid of
thitti
Inf ^otitjflji
*ftd
$&m
f\WciJloft wliieli
mice*
#hft
op&0aitet x tt1anoiX
Itt pafeiM^e*
om
twier eonflileti
tft
The apllts.
Hitlar*a
pei^aciiiAlity
tim both
dual
wllJh
Mi
fhii
M- ^lyiQ$
the
father*
eit)ie"c ted
into the
-*
th Auatrian state<
the Tathsr*
of blood.
So Hitler
Gerinanif,
infection, destroys her eneniies, breaks their eneirclement, removes every re$trii:tion upon her so that she
and restriction.
Hot ohly is the Pa the j* feared but he ie a source
beloved mother.
cbmplete possession.
Por
hiia
i*0t'6
da
80 -
Jewish^
at'
ev^ry
aggressive step.
Aggression, therefore,
hfis
limitj it
Q$itinot
succasa
"
Whati that is
s*..
.
<
feelings *;?-^
^^
that HttXei? id partly eohsblbue of tjhla we Ijnow froui hla own thireats of auicido and reference* to dylnt fo** the, Oorman people '(9).
W:
- 91 -
fie
my
pdcpld
an<5
their neighbdrd.
^.
BlBLIOGHAPHy
X.
Bloch, E.
Dodd, M.
Parcigo, L*
2, 3*
4..
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
1$.
GERMAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARPARE New York: Conmltteb on NatlOEial Morale, 1941. ESCAPE PROM PREEDOM. Proine, B New York: Parrar it Rlnebart, 1941. INSIDE EUROPE. New York and London: Ba^'peri, 199<5. GERMANY: JEKYLL AND HYDE. Haffrior, S. London: Seeker & Warbiaro, 194^. t WAS HITLER'S BUDDY. Hanisiab,..R. New Republic, April 5, 1939. HITLER, A^BIOGRAPHY. Helden, JC. London: Conatable, 19S6. MEIN KAMPP. Hitler, A. New York: Reynal & Hltobeoek, 1959. MY NEW ORDER. Hitler, A. New York: Reynal & Hltohcock, 1941. Kret9chmer,E. PHYSIQUE AND CHARAqTER. New York: Harcourt, Bi^oe, 1925. Krueger. t. INSIDE HITLER. New York: Avalon Pre$J, 1941. HITLER -CULT* W. Lewla, London: Dent, 1959. June 23, 1941. Life,
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Medlcus.
Vr,
IS.
X9*
A PSYCHIATRIST LOOKS AT HITLER. Republic, April 26, 1939. New Republi( Rauschning,B*HlTLER speaks. London: But terwojfth, 1939. Sheldon^W^fl, THE VARIETIES OP HUMAN PHYSIQUE. New York: Harper, 1940. Q HITLER AND I. Str^saer, Boston: Houghton Hiffllfij 1940. MEfAPOLITICS. Vier^Ok, P* New York: Knopf, 1941.
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press).
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dathecta^
(de]^ re elates^
^e
their ability
can vary in kind
1^
STATSir^IT OP
THli;
PROBLEM
a
common
biim^
an
Vienna,
'it i*as
miserable life,^
I once
'?and
asked him
I
He answered:
letting-down in distress.
84 ^
demlgodt
to Christy
The
matt
How was
Tor
~
vihet
mm
to succeed where
kind of
chief
Whet conditions in
likely to do next?
-as
odrS
hd bo treated so that
tjo
as a legendary figure
Mission^ as he conceives
gliqi
Pe^er>
.,^^
cori
V'eakness,
- 86 w
(A
He
rou^
games.
Ih Vienna,
.
We.r I
was rejected
for service.
Some
- 87
doscrlbed es womenlsh
-^
of, a
girl
2*
Medical
arid
Paychlatrlc Hlstogy
neurotlclsm*
vocal chord.
(1)
pacing,
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and botrQyGl; (2) weeping and exhibitions of selfpity; and ($) falling on
mouth, bltlt^g the carpet.
OVe^e
the-
his
5f the stOinftch.
lit i
He Is the proto-
tvirn to
look at
with
a fixed,
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ea l^o'^ltlvtXjp hypo^i
Behind
t?i
bebitudl ^aejaftcf
'haranguing an
good effeot;*
oplat and
cXaiaoiy.
amny
pat>tjat
down the
fip?eat
worahlpfuX adhetenta,
the graciotis
goCKil*fitured
Austrian, gentXe^
deed canary*
'
* 90
tshe
a nightfljarej the
HitXer
,,'
Xlmp/
indoieritj>
and indecisive}
addressing
^
singXe individual*
Of aiX these, it is
the.
It is because
...
-^^;t^r-^-y-!'7r-vr.:
9X
1837
1830
'
Maria Anna SchlcklgimbQi' has an lilegltimato sdft, Alois,, born in Stronea> noai Spltal jahana (Jeorg fiiedler (tiltiat*) m Mel*! Anna Schlcklgruber Birth of p-ara PoelsX in Spltal
*Aloi8 Schickligruber log^tlitti^edas A16id mtXer Al9i8 fitter m* Anna OXaal*Horer (14 years older) l>ath of Anna Qlasl^Eorer In Braunau Alola Hitler . Pranzlska'lfiatzolbergei? BtJ?th.,of Alois Hitler JJ?#, 2 month* after
marriage
Bllfth of Angela Hitler Delith of Pran^lska llatzelberger
J*|i
.
Alois Hitler (47 years) m, Klara Poelzl Birth of two chlWren who die in Infancjr i88d, Apr* 20 , \, Bi^th of Adolf Hitler in Braunau Family move to Passau (Bavnrla) on Austrian boiler* Alois Hitler retires on a pension cal893 Pamils^'move to Lambach (24 miles from Llnsi); CathbUe oonvent Birth of Paula Hitler calB96 ^ Family itfbve to Leondlhg (suburb of I^lftZ); cal900 Technl<5el School 1903, Jan. 3 Death of' Al^la Hitler Family iwya to Linz A^olf Hitler attends school in $^teyt^ 1904*5 1907, Octijflitler fail* to pass examlnatioh of Acedemy of Arts, Vienna 1907 Dec* 21 ' Kla*^ Hitler dies, (A* H, is 18 y^j?i* old) 190l,Jan A. Hi moves to Vienna ^ 1908, Oct, A. H* fails a second time to pass examination of Academy of Arts A, H. moves to Munich, I9l3
,
Hot all these datea are reliable; most of the early ones are from Ounthers INSIDE EUROPE.
m
A,
dHILDHOb]) ANC ADOLESCfiRCB
1889
I
X907
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1:,
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.
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hfefl
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^(J8i0
arisen tn
iw^jftrd
efl
soon a iw reaXl
Hledle^, ^ettlar
lilltej?ate peaaant^ajnlijr*
yrhtQ botli
deaoendod
a
froni on
graat-gpndfather)| an inhabitant
KarBhal
Hifidenburg
Al6li Hltloa ^^
HitlfiJ<*f fatllGi?,
p'
94
dblef faeta
l)6ufc
t^^aritig'
on eu dna3.3r^i9
ai*a
(ai
Acdoraiug t$ aa
iii<it;dpy
0r4ai?ed
fey
thd
Am&
?6
ijpt
Sohiiekl^
aai^ant In a
raaaoift al)
^aHah
Vtermaa4( family*
ijhia
wi
homa
tha ^otrntry*
ftalf*
ii^Jtef*
^andaUr
lari* pirina
of vt anna I ta
IB Xlna mX%h
(t)>
Itt
^
aay
tha go4fatie
efbiaaon Adolf ^
la
tibia byi^ttlMala*
avafttj^
.no
doubt mada
which ha
iaa reaj?ad#
'<5ol)bler
a cuatoma
tbat
bEid
)
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,
<-
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(d)
iff
lower lip#
He wore
patrolman carried
Hs smoked
.
He
He died of apoplexy^
submissive.
tyrant*
(f
Physical
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98 -
Germany and all the faults of Austria;" but, according to Heiden, more reliable informants claim that
the
nationalist.
Germany*
(h)
his sketch of the typical lower class home drew upon his personal experiences, and if this is true, the
But things end badly Indeed when the man from the very start goes hir^Q way (Alois Hitler ran after other women') and the wlfe^ for the sake of her children^ stands up against him. Quarreling and naming set in,, and in the same measure in which the husband becomes estranged from hit: wife he becomes familiar with
(1)
:
P^^;\^
'J
97 -
alcohol, '''lien he finally comes home on Stuiday or Monday night, drunk end brutal, but always without a last cent and penny, then God have mercy on the scenes which follow. 1 witnessed all of this personally in_ hundreds or scenes and at the beginning wit h both disgust and indignation ##V -^ (M.K. 58U58).
The other things the little fellow hears at home do not tend to further his respect for his Surroundings # Hot a single shred is left for humanity, not a single institution is left \anat tacked;. starting with the teacher, up to the head of the State, be it religion, or morality as such, be it the State or Society, no matter which, everything is abused, everything is pulled down in the nastiest manner. into the filth of a depraved mentality ^ (M.K# 43).
(i)
Relations to father
'"
He
vocation:
.
- 98 -
Of this
(ii) No matter how firm and determined my father might be in carrying but his plans and intentions once made, his son was Just as stubborn and obstinate^.* (V^K. 12)
-he opposed me with the (iii) resoluteness of his entire nature. ..The old man became embittered, and, much as I loved him, the same was true of myself and now the old man relentlessly began to enforce his authority. (M.K. 13-14).
It is obvioua from thede and other passages,
father-son conflict.
(j)
Hote l
In
edntemptudus
mannei:'*
(twenty**- three
99 -
Rauschnlng: Everywhere, Hitler complained, there were nothing but aterlle old men In their second childhood^ who bragged of their technical knowledge and had lost their sound common sense,
(I)
Hitler, quoted bv Helden: Mv Kre&t adversary, Reichapxsldent von HLdenburg,;ii tOdey (^ptt^pVe yoo^ in of age. I erf fortj-ttoNfl^n4;^ feel hcpP^ berf ect health- ArJ^^ilbthliig #11 the to me. fot^^m'f^oeimm^Mii^P^a of assigned great task which frChddSiS&^Ps to me.
(II)
8*
Mother
(e)
f>er8 6helity
of Mother
ajTs
thoaf i
Her
everything had home was always spotlessly lieeh, furniture. Its place, not a speck ot dust on the relatively young She had a gentle nature. Her
domestic age, her docile character, her years of
service
Christian resignation.
of life with an
whims Adolf she was ever devoted, catering to his i^as who to the point of spoiling him. She it
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opis rated,
inrrkod by
r-.ncd
^tiotnstBseG
in the
lunss
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^^V^XLER'S -mother:!^
(b)
Relation^-.- to^
.-^iTM
Mother
"^..-^
publicly
eibout his
obtsiri-o-ai*^
v.-^-.
M^^
'^:""
kindness, (M^K*
S)
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for three or four of tfa^ygjy^l^^ betweerv Ma father's and his mother ''tfleffChi; Adolf mtierliaid away a good deal of hi# time aa'fch^ Indulged apple of his mother's eye. Sy -allowed hlra to drop his ^ie^. at the I^Aischulej she encouraged htm In his ambltlbfisTtobe a painter; she yielded to his eveiywlsh.at)urlng these years, It Is report^dl^ thflK i^lationittip between mother adoration. arid son wil marked by r^lprocal (at most Hitler's aniazlriis self^ai^aurarice,
(ii)
;
>
times) can be attribute^' in part to the iSpi-ession pf these yea^ wheri at the age or thirteeft hi;^., father. Cted and he succeeded to th6 p6wer and became the littliT dlatatojp of the family V: 3* pl?rj^othei^. Alois. had left by this .tlm0^1ft;o<l he tras' th* tmXt maiev * Wehold, o*:^?*- ^"'f^JS^r^S^^L hapfel^it'daysi'they seemed like a/di'eaaf to me, v.. ana At ^^y were ^"^ :(M,t. 25).
:",;'--*...
(lii)'^!:
(isr) .Sbr* Blooh>epolSa^t^%;Ad ,: cried wh^n, he heard of hla mother 'ajjiifwdeath liiR^ At bpei-aticn and later at hej?, do^tqi? .!*. exSbiledgre^t grief... The JgJJ, Afts*; /seeit anyone ap prostrate with' sorrow, ^e Catholic^cemetery, Adqlf /^ tfee -buri^t sWyea;by'he|''g^y^lon^Jffer th dther*
-ha<t,dep8X?tejy.K<,f>j3^*%j
';*. "4^
%T^' "
llb^Jti.
-:eitlerwoi"r the* picture of his mother over his breasf la th? field during World War 1.
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That .the mother-child relationship was a compelling, though rejected, pattern for Hitler may be s-urtnised from (1) his attachftient to %ubstitutf others' durlri^ his po3.t^var years^ i^X M^, ^^^T^"^,^ r 'mother imagery' in speaking and wrltln|. and (3) his seleotloh of picture^ of Madonna and child to decoratethl rocms.
(vl)
^:
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itn-v- ,j>y^-y~.
.^^>4v^f'/;-;^-,'^
105 -
(c)
SlbllDga
It is
Sl>"
half-sister,
Angela Hitler.
The half-sister,
bureau in Linz.
Consequently, he must
very peculiar,
Vienna.
several men in
It is
-.^jf^.'-X'^"' *'*?'
"'**
v'""-^:")C>'*
104 -
r#<
(11)
bom*
One of
some informants*
$,.
daydream about Germany's wars, but he did nothing to school fit himself to be a soldier. When he tired of
(ashamed of his inferiority in scholarship), he became
frustration
which were
reifiapded
;\^'^^
>'
'>,'^.-
- X06 Vr
'
.
(c)
lenient ,
Lansing: His first teacher recalled. ..that he was a quarrelsome, stubborn lad who smoked cigarets and cigar stubs collected from the gutter or begged from roisterers in the public houses.
(i)
.
that Hitler told him- that the people of the Innviertel were great brawlers and that, as a boy, he used to love to wAtch their fights. Also, that he used to enjoy visiting a fine exhibition in Line of deadly weapons. What others abhorred appealed to him. (N.B., Here is fair evidence of repressed aggression (sadism) during boyhood.)
(li)
^nish reports
Hitler, as a: mere boy of ten, became passionately interested in reading about the "amazingly victorious campaign the of the heroic German armies during had be-, Franco- Prussian War". Soon this come *my greatest spiritual expeirience". (M.K. 8).
(ill)
raved more and more about everything connected with war or militarism.
(iv)
I
(M.K. 8).
Ih
A careful examination of the first chapter of MEIN KAMP? will convince any psychologically ti^liWil reader that Adolf's vigorous adivptsacf of the cause of Germany as oiiposed td thst of Austria from ted a^ the age of eleven onward -J^epre sen legitimate substitute for his repressed
(v)
S'-f',-.
.V.'
106 -
rebellion against hia father. Inspired by hlis history teacher. Professor Poetsch (fathersurrogate), and a long line of German military heroes, the boy could give vent to his pent-up resentment by publicly proclaiming his devotion to the German Reich of Bisraark and vehemently denouncing the authority of Austria (symbol of his fathom). In MEIH KAMPP Hitler writes at length of his possession of
:
intense love for my native German- Austrian coxintry and a bitter hatred against the 'Austrian' State. (M.K. 22-23).
(vi)
,. an
...it is rebellious; it wears the forbidden emblem of its own nationality and rejoices in being punished or even in being beaten for wearing that emblei|p. ..the greeting was Heil; and Doutschland ubef alles' was preferred to the imperial anthem, despite (M.K. 15). warnings and pxinishments .
(vii)
Why was it that Austria had not taken part also in this -^r. why not my father I had decidedly no sympa-cny (M.K. 9). ,.,? for the course my father's life had taken. (M.K. 7). During the years of my \mruly youth nothing had grieved me more than having been born
(ix)
at a tltno when temileteif glory we|i #ly erected to merchant^ 6>p State offitl|ri (M.K* 53plJ (his father's profession)* to become 'somotlltng* *I, too, wanted (M^K-* S6), iDut In no event an official.
MM-'
(i)
Impressed by my Illness my mother (i) agreed at long last to take me out of school...
(M.K. 24).
. 108 -
(e)
frcon
likely that the boy was at all popular with his classma tos
Sexual Misbehavior.
twelve Adolf had committed a serious sexual indiscretion with a little girl.
Conclusioria
(Oedipus
Weakness of Mother #
'
- 109 -
ih
Although Hitler
m-
(e)
The
the
- 110 -
(f)
fortune in Vienna.
And I would overcome these obstacles, always bearing in mind my father's example, who, from being a poor village boy and a cobbler's apprentice, had made hls^way up to the position of civil servant. (M.K. 28}. Adolf Hitler sported a walrus moustache
(ii)
(g)
He finally
trinmed it in imitation of a new exemplar, Peder. Adolf Hitler's invariable uniform and (h)
Hitler's pistol may well have been suggested by Alois
(1
(d)).
rise respect for the class system; was proud of his looked down in status; envied those above him and father upon those below him. If this is true, the of s6ntiwas Inatrtmiental in establishing a pattern son's ments which itka of determining importance in his of his career. Adolf Hitler has always been envious any superiprs and deferential j ha has never showed
-.
Ill--
II"
(3)-
hung
a portrait, of hia
father
-ava^? the
study at Berchtesgadan-
Moltke,
s-nd
Th^^re is no-
te^-^^;.:
us
Aloitt,
it.
ahatemloiisneee.
are different 4
Interest In women*
O^ere can b* no doubt then that. Hitler greatly
and.
admiration, desiring to be as he
(M. S4)
Henceforth
^^
his
very similar. It
se^imsj
to his admliratlen
He wrlt^*j
foi?
113 -
(1) , Incredibly vigorous power that inhabits this age-old institution (Catholic Church)
(ii) ...he (Lueger) was dispo8e4*<*to secure the favor of any existing powerful institutions, tn order tha.% he mi^t derive from these old .so\irces of strength the greatest possible advantage. *
(k) '
'
11
II
II
li
-li-
II
f ill
own ittakin^*
perfect mother.
mother; but
thai? he
- 114 -
(k)
his incapacity to
be-*
He writes:
(i) I owe much to the time in which I had learned to become hard (in Vienna)*. I praise it dven more for having rescued me from the emptiness of an easy life (in
Lih with his mother), that it took the milksop out of his downy nest and gave him Dame Sorrow for a foster mother 4'..
(M.K. 29).
'flaAls6lt
fested a
cjueer
female Sex.
Every woman he
Iri
for so doing.
Since he
haiel
always been
X15 -
- lis ^
(hiaifftthei')
bullied
Rejeotion i
The former came mostly from his father? the latter from
many people.
Among
t;he
specific causes of
thlis
idea
later.
Are we' not the same as all the (i) other Qermans? Do we not all belong' together? This problem how began to whirl, thrbxigh my little head for the first time. After cautioias questioning, I heard with envy the reply that not every Geri^n was fortiinate enough to belong to Bismardk's Reich. This I could not understand. (M.K* 9).
lis
*.
Repudiation of ?ast
S(9Xf
V
(ii)
Viennese Jew.
(iv) His father had three wives,
one a
waitress, one
fi
out of marriage.
(vi)
Kiara
Poe^p:|.,
- 117 -
On the other
We
haire a
Between
* 118
(o)
Ide^tif JQetlQQ
wlttet
aqrn>any - 51tler'
early age and was the factor^ more than any other which
intense insociation:
.
(i)
Cathoxis of power.
The figures of
- 119
-'
(v)
a biarrier.
that an
<San
not
so
iiaai
In this
the father*
stem
find iduch
evldenca
fifr
thi hypothesis
humiliation.
woman;
the longing grew (vii - 1) stronger to go there (Grermany) where since my eftrly youth X had been drawiqi
What I first bad (vii ^ 2) looked upon as an impassable chasm now spurred me on to a greater love for my coxintry than ever before". (M^-K. 55)
Heiden^ quoting from Hitler: The hiindreds of thou-n sands who love their country more than anything else must also be loved by thair country more than anything else.
(vii - 3)
appeal to those who, severed from the motherland, have to' fight for the holy treasxire of their language., .find who now in painful emotion long for the hour that will allow them to return to the arms of the beloved mother... (M.K. 161)^
(vii 4)
J
He
- 121 -
Jiiotherland,*' "the
We are
ari
easy life,
speaking
- 122 -
B, VIENNA DAYS
1908 - 191S
The 'chief facts pertinent to the present analysis
are these:
1,
He failed.
He moved to.
Vienna In the winter of 1908, and the following October presented himself again at the Academy.
the drawings he
,br ought
But
He was told he
than draftsman.
2.
or flophouse.
press Aggression.
(2)
1x6
Hitler
had a
n\janber
Therd was
Anti-Semite himself
4.
According
term in Jail*
- 124 -
6.
Hitlerian projection.
7.
practices in Vienna.
a purity complex.
9.
sex pervert.
There was in
^ 125 -
(I) Generally/ it Is the chlldx^en of higher place,, momentarily well-to-do parents who. In turn are deemed worthy of ft higher education. Hereby questions of talent play a subordinate rdle.
.
(II) Vienna, the city that to so many represents the idea of harmless gaiety, the festive place for merrymaking, is to me the only living memory of the most miserable time of my life t
12*
Living
as he was, penniless among the penniless of the lower class, he himself experienced, and he was in close
pro-^
V}.-
- 126 -
arid
man from Llnz who could not get through Jligh School
was capable of profiting by what he saw and read, and
that these five years of drifting and Irregular em-
Vienna.
He writes:
(I) So in a few years I btiilt a foundation of knowledge from which I still draw nourishment today. (M.K# 29).
At that tiziie I formed an image of (II) the world and a view of life irtilch became the granite foundation for my actions. (M.K. 30).
13.
psychologically is this:
'
- 127
(1)
middle class.
riong
up the ladder by
No
his son:
(1-1) The reason for that which one could almost call 'hostility' is the fact that a social class, which has only recently worked its way up from the level of manual labor, fears to fall back into the old, but little
esteemed, class, or at least fears being counted in with that class. In addition, many remember with disgust the misery existing in the lower class; the frequent brutality of their dally social contacts; their own position in society, however small it may be, makes every contact with the state of life and culture, which they in turn have left behind, unbearable*
This explains why members of the higher social cla^s can frequently lower themselves to the htimblest of their fellow beings with less embarrassment than seems possible to the 'upstarts'
For an upstart is anyone who, through his own energy, works his way up from his previous social position to a higher one.
M>nally^ this relehtlesg "^struggle kills all pity One s own painful Scramble for existence suffocates the feelingdf sympathy fo?^ thd misery of thosQ left behind^ (M.K. 31-32).
V.
128 *
(iii)
and so his unit of i nsociation (group identification and belongingness) was greatly threatened by the com-
munists
'
the world.
dictatorship
- 129 -
or the elite*
notion of equality.
130 -
C.
WAR EXPERIENCES
1914
-
1919
our theme
1.
respected institution.
At
appears, was
- 151 -
supposedly medal aftel- he had left the Front, Allies. one of the last offenalved of the gassed marked Informants have commented on Hitler's
3.
'
offering to subaerviehce to the Superior officers, menial tasks, do their washing and perform other an extent that courting their good graces to such
his comrades were disgusted.
4.
package's from home, *nd never to receive any nail or when the others at Chfistmas and other occasions he sulked moodily were receiving gifts and messages
that in It is hard to explain the fact prompted above the four years of service he was not by one of his officers rank of corporal. The comment is the only explanathat he' was ft neurotic fellow
but that he suffered to any serious extent in 1918, which war neurosis, hysterical blindness,
from a
and perhaps his also deprived him of his voice illness was concomitant hearing. This psychosomatic Mother Germany, and it with the final defeat of his
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153
v.^:;
I
-/
his viaj
Vh'as
c:i
-of
Suddenly
,
his sight
restored.
ri*"
"T'T
.'
tT.-"
^^^^'
^^(:^??5dB:2t^^.:f
7.
reaction that
.to.
v/as
typical
namely,
# -
^'^
"
\\
with the "incredible dl^ol-pllnea of our opponents^ propaganda/ and still today it la my pri^e to hava found tha means * -f or- beating finally Its Tv^C) years later I ^m maater in 'very makers.
this <iraft,
*:
had
-.
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.....
..
%
"
.
'..
^'
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p.
- 133 -
D. POST-WAR EISTORY
1919
being highlighted
1,
to one informant;
Later
This
for life.
His phenomenal
succesB hinged on
hlfl
mass-rpuaing talent.
- 134 -
3.
fantasy since his boyhood and had done a good deal period, of informal haranguing throughout this whole
first as the adolescent ringleader of the young
among
tlie
A selection
In the monotony of everyday life even Important people often seem unimportant and they hardly stand out over the average of their surroundings; but as soon as they are faced by a situation in which others would despair child or go wrong, out of the plain average grows visibly, not inthe ingenious, nature i*jo frequently to the astonishment of all those
_
.135 ^
hitherto had an oppoit\inity to ohaerve him, who had meanwhile grown up In the smallness of bourgeola life, and therefore. In consequence of this process, the prophet has rarely any honor In his own country. Never Is there a l)etter opportunity to observe this than doir In war,' In the hours of distress, when others despair, out of apparently harmless children, there Shoot suddenly heroes of death-defying determination and ley coolness of reflection. If this hour of trial had never come, then hardly anyone would ever have been able to guess that a young hero Is hidden In the beard* Nearly always such an Impetus Is leiis boy. needed In order to call genius Into action. Pates hammer stroke, which then throws the one to the ground, suddenly strikes steel in another, and while now the shell of everyday life Is broken, the; erstwhile nucleus lies open to the eyes of the astonished world. (F.K. 402-5).
4..
Germany and
early years to a homosexual, Ernst Roehm, a superior officer with an upperclass background. The physical
- 136 -
were these:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d).
Allies, and
(e)
Anti-Semitism.
Soon afterward*
(f
. 157 -
8.
Instead of antagonizing
hiio
were plotting
Everyone sought to
- 158 -
('
company and was pathologically jealoua of any attentions shown her by other men. .Two informantf have
Whichever story
down
by to it, amounts to a vegetarian diet, served; him o/. the best chef in' the Reich, and a great variety
soft driiiks in place of hard liquor*
It is said
V. PERSONALiry STRUCftJRE
1,
Ego
Here we are
powers
^a)
.
During
Ms
boyhood, especially
unable to
an^
He
'
t^
.* X40 .
(Ill)
Indeed, he Is
Incapable of working.
lUs habits
He may
go to bed at eleven
at seven or at noon.
(v)
P*M.,'
He Is rarely p\inctual.
spasmodic activity,.."
(b)
..
Ul
As Roehm says,
vacillates
find
procrastinates."
.
capacity
of
keeping with his own ideal of the Jron Supermensch. Rauschning: fMy own experience of (i)
a him and what I have learned from others indicate lack of cpntrol amotinting to total demoralization." (d)
of;
all.Qrt.
:
errors shown any capacity to perceive or admit his determinaand defects. Part of this, is a ;Conscious tion to folloit the policy of denying them, this
- X4a (g)
oblif^ationa
^^
^^
^^^^ ^^^^
^^^ ^^^^^
^^^^
from society,
(iv) power to resist dictatorship of ooh-
ventlonal superego,
(v)
(vii) long apperceptive span (taking account of a distant future in making decisions.
(i)
energy by stating that Hitler bperatea on t halamic planning.rather than o n conacious will en d rational
accomplish Possessed by fanatical paadion he can moderate which those who act on cooler and more
things,
Tbff
Id
tout
a tree a them.
They are
Wa:
...Qver- educated people, stuffed with Imowiedge and intellactj but bare of any
(11)
sound Iniitincts .
144 -
,*.0f secondary Importiince is (111) the training of mental aMlltlea. (H.K 913).
.
He
must
-nati
.
(Iv) Its the subconscious the work It matures, sometimes it dleS. goes' on. Unless I haV'e the inner incorruptible conviction: this is the solution, I do nothing. Not even if the whole party tried to drive me I will not act; I will wait, ho to action. what hfiippsna. But if the voice speaks matter then I know the time has pome to act. (Quoted fromi Raus chining )*
'
"that he
145-
hla party.
to meet an emergency.
(v)
I go
monomanla.cal compound of motivations, which amounts to a a rigid, idea* will be fully described later. It is
thalamltJ fanatical, and indurable reservoir 6f the threa times energies which, on release,, have two or bear upon any the potency that a normal man brings to collaboration one reasonable objects The ego Is in service, with this unconscious complex,, operates In its
check and can, within limits, call it intd play or indeed. it momentarily. On appropriate ocoasions, possessed Hitler makes, good "use of his capacity to be
by the complex.
yj'
146 -
voices gavd him permission to free the sex Instinct, whereas Hltler^s volces^ncburcige brutality and
destructlont
Baker Eddy*
i;
Besides
147
&
paranoid schizophrenia.
hate and revenge fulness "in the man and the acts of
symptomatic of schizophrenia
Superego
Iti fBems
tbie
148 -
The con-
g|*eat
Only when the time comes when the (i) race is no longer overshiidowed by the. consciousness of its own guilt, then it will find internal peace and external energy to cut down regardlessly and brutally the wild shoots, and to pull up the weeds
am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge; from the dirty and degrading modifications of a
(ti)
- X49 .
chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal Independence which only a very few can bear.
We must be ruthless We must (Ql) regain our clear conscience as to ruthlessmess. Only thus shall we purge .our people of their softness and sentimental Philistinism^ and their degenerate delight In beer- swilling.
(Iv)
I recognize no moral law In
politics*
(v) Conscience Is a Jewish invention* It is a blemish like circumcision.
Nothing is
150 -
It (Storm Troop) did not want to establish violence as its aim, but it wanted to protect the messengers of the
(vl)
However, I did not wish to (vii) carry out my purposes by force, instead I did my utmost to accomplish my ptirpose by persuasion alone.
It never has been my in(vtii) tention to wage wars, but rather to buildt## (M.N.Ot 836).
(ix)' I forbade the sacrifice of more human lives than was absolutely ndcessary. (Speaking of the war with Poland* M.N,0. 723)
He has
His
* 151 /
hlis
close fDllbw-^
tendency.
methods t
so
Irj
--^
pi^ojectlons so common
show*
I
,^
...
/
-152^
4.
Pro.^eetlon
6y
Thla
There
It operate* ao
acoma
and-obndemna one gets a fairly accurate and <?omprehenaive view of hia own id.
HLb caae ia rather un-
furthered what was once no doubt a purely unconacioua mechanlam. For example, he aaya, "As aoon aa by one
the other own propaganda even a glimpae of right on one 'a own aide is admitted the cauae for doubting of
right ia laid."
wrong of is admitted the cause for doubting the opponent is laid. He also has enough know-
oneU
of ledge to realize that accusations are evidences this is the guilt, for he says, "If they now say that
fe'v
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rental rkabXe
greatest projector.
psychologists
(i)
ixB,
Hitler
"I
was my first
- 154 -
zae
In
Wly
wrong.
"These Impudent ras6als Hitler: (intellectuals) who always know everything better than anybody else.*^"
"The intellect has grown autocratic, and has become a disease of life."
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(v)
Hitler: "The people.,. are so so feminine in their nat\irs and attitude that their activltieo and thoughts are motivated leas by apber considerations than by feeling and sentiment."
(vi)
.'
Hitler t "what a race (Jews); As such they have been nailed down forever... the great masters of lying."'
.
-b
(vii)
Hitler; "They,, .tried to pierce me even with their eyes. Innumerable faces were turned toward toe with Sullen hatred,"
(viii)
Hitler; "Chicherin -* arid with him a staff of over two hundred Soviet Jews --visits the cabarets^ watches naked. dancera perform for his pleasure,,*"
(ix)
156 -
sad forebodings and was rilled with 1 was faced by a depresslnR. fear. a doctrine TsoclAl Democrats) consisting of egoism and hatred; It could be victorious, following mathematical laws, but at the same tlire It could bring about the end of mankind.
a.
Social Democracy.., directs a bombardment of lies and calumnies towards the adversary who seemed most dangerous, till finally the nerves of those who had been attacked give out and they, for the sake of peace, bow down to the hated enemy.
b
They (opponents at Nazi c. meetings) resembled a powder keg that might blow up at any moment, and to which the burning fuse has been attached. activity is unrestricted by moral obligations,
e.
d.
-For his
I talked until
my tongue was
weary and till my throat was hoarse. .. of the destructiveness of their Marxist p doctrine of irrationality.
...we will not let the Jews slit our gullets and not defend ourselves.
f.
(Jew). ..the higher he climbs, the more alluringly rises out of the veil- of the past his old goal, once promis'^d to him, and with feverish greed he watches in his brightest heads the dream of world domination step
g.
X57 -
*.lt was in keeping with our -own harmleesnesfl that England took the JpJJ^y of some day meeting our peaceful activity with the brutality of the violent egoist.
1.
...the outstanding features;^ of Polish bharacter were cruelty and lack or morjBl re9tj*alnt.
)t.
idea lego
compound The Idealego, as we define It, is a the subject, which of images, engendered in the mind of level of aspirarepresent what he would like to be, his
his career, tion, his best self at the height of
the man
that of a great be the figure of a master criminal or dependent benefactor or prophet, its exact nature being Id, ego, and upon a host of factors stemming from the that the idealsuperego. lii Hitler's case it is clear and unego is the aominant force of his conscious in conscious life. We shall discuss, it presently drives and connection with his major configuration of
sentiments*.
108
B.
(
and consistent pattern or (2) because the configurations, important such as they are, are not wholly discernible, elements being repressed and lonconscious to the subject.
conscious We use the term orienting thema to include both
major configurations of overt drives and sentiments and the orienting thema, because the latter has been
made explicit in word and deed
consistent and obvious type.
ftid
is of a relatively
relatively few men who has largely lived out his fantasy.
are the The main elements of his major configuration
following:
X.
love, respect. cathexis the reverse: power to evoke Negative aversion, scorn, hate.
.
Posikve cathexis
- value, attraction,
power to evoke
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'
(1)
(natlona ).
The vety first enthusiasm entertained by the boy
Hitler
iras
We have already
Hanlsch: Hitler always took the Government's, part.. .Invariably approved of all such violent methods as necessary for the Stabs* s sake.
a,
Hitler: In Vienna I continued had done before, to follow up all as I events In Gisrmany with the fiercest enthusiasm, no matter whether political or cultural questions were concerned. With proud admiration I compared the rise of the Reich with theadecllne of the Austrian State. (M.K, 69-70).
b.
'
Hitler: Pxoissla, the germ cell of the Reich, was created by resplendant heroism and not by financial operations or oom^rclal affairs, and the Reich Itself was in turn only the most glorious reward of political leadership and military deathdefying courage. (M.K. 201).
c.
160 -
England did not conquoi? India toy the way of Justice and law: she conqaiored India without reig^rd to the wishes, to -the views of the natives, or to their formulations of justice, and, when necessary, she has upheld this suppremacy with the moat, toiratal ruthlesihess. (M.N.O. 103).
e.
Hitler:
(rulers)
certainly in
ti^' co\arse
have
Mussolini
>:
It Infuriated me a.'^' Hi tie J?: even more. than the Viennese Press... expressed its objections against the German Kaiser. ..Such things made the toiobd rush to my head.
- X6X -
He said. ..Wagnex* was a nghtar^ there was more greatness and power in Wagner.
b.
flanlsch:
Over Hitler's desk han^s a portrait of Frederick the Great, Hitler all Germany's historic characters. has chosen as his hero.
c.
^^il
Heiden: Roehm's frank hrutal energy iJdemed to inspire ft blissful sense of security in Hitler.
d.
Hitlert In those dayii -- I I conceived the most admit it openly orofound admiration for the great man,. great what will rank Muddolini among the not determination of this earth is the to share Italy with Marxism.
e.
is marked The figui^e of power admired by Hitler and absence of by cournge, fldlitary valor, brutality, 6f him sympathy or compassion, tt is characteristic
t6wer
Differing from
<ai8plftyed, and still to tors or revolutioniata. Hitler deference towards his some extent displays, a marked a pattern superiors, exhibiting thereby, no doubt,
overbearing father.
(i)
Heiden: Subordination he took to seriously down to the smallest details rto never respect one's superior officers, submit blindly. Hitler discontradict, to the clothes llBj^l swvile solicitude for officers superior boots fltnd food of his
si^g
^ges
(ii)
Strassei?.":.
Hitlei:*'^
attitude towarda
the General wa3 obsoqyi^^^J. ^^ was In agreesienf with. everything Lxiden^orff said*
/.
, ;'.[LT.::/^.r.
*.'^
.^v. -^\. vj
:
,r^.
'"^V^?^*^'
V .
'
f-'fir'V*"
>li'ijV*"'i- i:r
s ^ '4 "
^il53
Ji
..,
Hltlei? 'a
"boiw*
In the midst of the Munich Eeiden: Putsch Hitler exclaimad to Kahi- in a hoarsa joii as vole!.' "Bxesllency, I will stand behind raithfvinT as a ao^!".
"!
(ill)
In the; coui-s^ of his peroraLamia: (iv) tion he. came to apaak of. Generals Ludendoi?ff
.
-J
,,
'
-H
;.
and von' Seeckt; at such momenta ho. stood at attention arid trvmip^ted forth the words "genei^al and "ESccellency'^ It mads no difference that one of the generals was on his sld^, -while the. other, von Seeckt, commander-in-chief of the Reichayrehr, was his eriemyi he- abahi^ on ad himself entirely to the pleasure of pronouncing the hlghsounding titles* Ha never said "General Seecict , he said "His Excellency, Herr Kolonal General von Seeckt", letting the words melt on hLs tongue At this moment atid savoring their after-taste. profesalonal sergeant. he was the typical
5,
^.'
natural completots of
power.
A'
his.
,,
164 -
Hitler: A atiPonger generation will drive out the wenkllnga, becaiase in its ultimate form the urge to live will again a and again break the ridiculous ^fetters of Individual, " so-called "humanity" of the that its place will be taken by the "humanity order of nature, which destroys weakness in strength. to give its place to
(i)
.
...these upper layers will (of intellect\iaU) Ift^ the necessary always weaker in. power. For will power is in these secluded intellectual circles than primitive people. the masses of the
(ii)
mtler:
Hitler:
.. .the
Hitler: Anybody who is such a poltroon that he can't bear the thought of someone near by having to suffer pain had better join a sewing- cirale, but not my (Rauschning) p^rty comrades. Hitler: Unless you are prepared (v) Our to be pitiless, you will get nowhere^ because it, not opponents are Aot prepared for too they are humane... but because they are (Rauschning). weak.
(iv)
.
4,
Tlie
ner.ely
that of
What was
orice
the goal external became internal and was accepted as notion- of the. powerful of endeavor. Around this central based on individual there has developed an ideology in nature. The the so-called aristocratic principle superman, leader final conception is that of a super
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This
tinie
follo^ng
Hitler, quoted by Rauschningj follows where there is a. firm will. But fortune
Cii)
Hitler: Always before Gbd and stronger has the right to carry the world the through what he will. (M.N. 0. 50).
*
(iii)
<iv) Hitler, quoted by Rauachning: Brutality is respe<sted. Brutality ftrtd physical strength. 'The plain man in the street respects
. :.
166 ^
ruthleasne ja nothing but brutal strength and J" "SrsT^Via la an excellent e^fPl ^f^"^ crux the p?ijeition and sums up in a nutshell of Hitler's personality.
Hitler: In the end, only the urge for selfipreservatipn will ;*^??;^J;y ^j^^^^ "humaniry", aa Under its pressure so-called mixture of stupidity, the expression of. a cowardice , an imagintiry a^PJ^^SLiS siJ ^ March sun. will melt like snow under the (U.K. 175).
(v)
'
Hitler: Every view of life,., will remain without Importance... unleJ^? of a fighting .principles have become the. banner (M.K. 675). movement.
(vi)
by Hitler: Terror is not t)roken (K.K. 494-5) power ofilnd but by terror. Hitler: The terror in the workrvll)
(viii) shops, in the factory in rat lops on occasions of mass demon st ^l\l^'^l'^ aa long as i^^s <>| q. S" accompanied by success great force and terror. <M.K. 58).
^^^lH^^l^Hi^Vi^
.
met by aS equally
$.
Social Idee t
t>6Werful Folk.
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Hitler, quoted by Rauachnlng: There will be a Herren<*Cla$s, an hlatorloal class tempered by battle and welded from the moat varied elements*
(I)
Hitler: ... (The Polklsh view) feels the obligation In accoidance with the Eternal Will that dominates thla universe to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and to demarid the stibmlsslon of the worst and the weakar. (H.K. 580).
(II)
Hitler: We recpgnlBe that freedom can eternally be only a consequence of power and that the source of power Is the will. Consequently, the will to powei* must be strengthened In a people with passionate ardor. (M.N.O. 24).
(ill)
Hitler: Hia (Youth's) entire education and development has to be directed at giving him the conviction of being absolutely (M.K. 618). superior to the others.
(Iv)
Hitler: The parliamentary principle of decision by majority, by denying the authority of the person and placing in its stead the member pf the crowd in question since against the (M.K. lOS). arlatocratic idea of Natiire,
(v)
Hitler: We want to be the supporters dictatorship of national reason, of of the brutality and national energy, of national (M.N.O. 66). resolution.
(vi)
One ffiLtler, quoted by Rauschfiing: (vil) foroe tbfe% is and. remains eternally the same: Bnplres are made by the isword, by superior force
not by alliances*
What must
bi9
168 -
with
party small nucleus and built a rapidly growing that according to his preconceived social ideal, (4) to Include most this, party usurped power and spread
of the nation:
Hitler: The N. S. G. W, P. must (viil) master! not be the masses' slave, but their (M.K. 698).
and, finally,
(5) that
the national confined to the German people within wherever boundary but to the German folk or race that he envisages they are. It is a world dominion alike. by people that are cons titutionally is the What we have here in the slpplest terms
to the Master-Slave pattern of social relationships is most distincexclusion of all other patterns. What presence of this idea,, which is as old tive is not the
the absence of other patterns, as the history of man, but contempt for sympat;hy. the complete substitution of
'
6,
powerful, Hitler's positive oathecatlon of a described, as nation and a powerful ruler has been in which Power well as his creation of a social ideal point. His deference, was to be carried to Its furthe.^t to face with representa^ even obsequiousness when face described. What we have tlves of power has also been
- 169 -
the gradual change now to deal with 18 the problem of We can say, emiAaaia frtnn deference to dominance.
of
jxustlflcatlon that If F^tlere I think, with aome that the nation pattern had existed In Germany,
Ideal
aoclal
an iron man, he might had been under the. dictatorship of place In the eyatem aa a have been willing to take his 'corporal in the army, aubordlnate, Juat aa he did aa a pattern was not in but the fact that av^ch a aoclal it. He became operation atimulated him to Inaugurate after another, diaaatlafied with one political leader degrees forced himself Kahr, Ludendorff , etc., and by his scheme somebody into the rfile that according to finding no one must fill. It is as if a masochlst,
auffioiently aadiatic to gratify his that r^e himself. eroticism, were to decide to adopt of the possibility of we have to take account here Listening to flitlei^'s vicarious pleasure in either rSle. sense of his Idehtlflcawords, wo often get a certain adopting the 'submissive tlbn with the aadist whe^ he is the masochlst when he r^e, <^d his identification with To exj^laih the identificala acting as a brutal tyrant. assume an elementary heed tion with the sadist, we must power,'which gets aatisfied for domlnanae, or wiU to Anyhow, it Is clear that as this roundabout Way.
to play a
i^e
in
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World War 1,
Prom
He gave
The ambi-
masses,
His
This explains
I.
in*
Hitler: Wd had a chance (dNirlng World War I) to becoiie acquainted irtth the Incredible discipline cf our oppunents V propagandli And still today It is y pr^de to have f otind the means. .^for beating flnnlly Its very laairers. Two years later I iHiar" isAster In his craft.
(ill)
.
at the
ijlrtrt
he
mtta
approaching the
of himself.
(iv)
Hitler r
We
aM
Rauscbningj The hare I Sow are you hew I will tell you a secret* I have satisfied? seen ttof Vlsieh of the new mien '- fearlesa and formidable. X shrank f rem |ilml
(9#B Eete Is a suggestion tb^t the exercise of pdwif there Is a grd&ter b^yond^ enjoyment -- shrinking before a still greater force*)
- 173
7*
show the
Who had all the strategic ideas which made victory possible?
I dldl
quoted by Puchs:
Do you not realize that you are in the presence of the greatest German everknown to historyl
(ill)
Hitleri
fm
^in
IB the laat anilyil* theie ar* only three g^eat statdsnidn iii th^ world, Stalin, oonilats I, and llu*s6Xifil.*.otir strength a6d in our -brutality.^ Genghla in our ap6d KhaA lad mllliadaa* of woii^n and dhildreft td alatightar flth premeditation and a hajjipy heart, metory seea In feim solely *5^w^4ff,^ it 'a a matter of irtdlfferfoufider of a etate. i*hirt a weak western Europeafl eh6e to elvlUMitlofl will say ahout aie. I ha^e Issued the coflBilind -* and I'll haire afoybody whe^ uttera but one word of crltlclfi ^bcefislited that our war aim does by a firing squad reaching certain lines, but not consist In In thephyslcal destruction of th eneftj* Accordingly, I have placed my death-head foraiatlons In readlneai...wlth orders to withtheai to send to death' mercilessly and toert, women, and 6hiMrei4 out cooroasslett, of Polish derivation and language;
Hitler:
By
am acting In the sensa of the Almighty Creator: warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's
<M.K. 84),
work*
Hitler: My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by only a few
- 174 ^
folXowers, reoognJLzed those Jews tar jib&t they were and s-ummoned men to the fight ftgalnat them an<ai who, Oods tj?uthl wa greatest not as a stiffs re r but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man X read through the passage which tells us how the X.ord rose at last in his might and seized the scourge to drive ou^ of the^f emple the brood of vipers and adders. I rectjgnize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the (M,N.O 26). cross*
'
vftien..*! see these men standing Hitiler: in their queues . .then I believe I would be no Christian, out a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, If. I did not, as did our
Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom todajr this poor people is (M.N.O* 27). plundered and exploited.
resplendent.
Anyhow,
type by an adherence he stands out among others of his trooper or the to the uniform of a commonplsc^ storm
vestments of an average
^jitizan:.
After
has hippopotamus- hide whip and a plastic surgeon and he has removed superfluous fat from his nose,
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'
8\tL table
to hia pdaitloh;
In Hitler's case,
a,
vlndlctlveness which
adversarlea.
up with Hitler
- 176 D
Hitlei,
measures.
(ii)
There- will be no
But even if
The first to be
The
J>
i77 -
Prom the
conceived tradition than it was a desire for relationship with concrete individuals*
Until he enlisted in
No doubt
forming
ati
Although
iri
a sense
178
One of
th.e
Hitler is inconceivable
It v:as this
Not only
179 -
to construct an ideology
-coiild
Nonis of the
elements were
Besides this,
con--
Or mus'fe' not tiie task of (i): IBLtler: the leading statesman be seen in the birth of a crdiitive idea or plan in itself, rather than in the ability to make the ingenuity of his plans understandable to a flock of sheep and empty-heads for the purpose of begging their gracious consent? (M.K. 101-102).
11.
communicate these to
thiei
Hitler is eloquent in
180 -
instigating action.
Here the
who most strongly desires of the unified senses the needs and as Nietzsche and Stefan nation, and not he who -- makes use of the "slaves" in George believed order to assure the triumph and happiness of a more regal aristocracy than the world has known, in short, fcr all his elements of patriotic mysticism. Hitler is no Platonist, bu^ a Spartan in the simplest sense. That iS why Germans have found it so difficult to resist him. As one of them has put it, "He flatters us all into acquies(M.K*Nbt$, 127*8)* cence. -"
.
(i)
The leader* is he
'
181 -
Orienting 'l?heina
ar>d
fallen motherland.
Therefore, we
and- so,
182 -
hefcb.
re ve red a 3 the
live on
(N.Bi^
tin
fulfllAent
of his word.
(the
These are
attracted and shocked the world but what is more distinctive perhaps is not the presence of these all-too-
and affliction.
^185C.
section.
Suffice it to
mention:1.
'
111*
II
section i
2*
/^
184 -
It forms an essential
The evidence^
He speaks
No doubt
voyeurism:
I had eyes for nothing but the (i) buildings. ..all day long, from early morn -until late at- night, I tan from one sight to the next, for what attracted me mcftt of all were the buildings* For hour a "on end I would stand in front of the opera or a^dmire the 'parliament Buildings; the entire Ringstrasse affected me like a fairy tale out of the (M.K. 26-27). Arabian Nights
.,
185 -
top'
retreat kt Berchtesgadent
D.
pounteractive Nardisni,
personality represent
majority
Here we
186 -
Hanisch: Hitler could never stand (i) any criticism of his paintings*
Hitler could not stand to (ii) Hanisch: be contradicted. He would get furious. He couldn^'t restrain himself, would scream and fidget with his hands.
(iii) Rauschning: He looked round apprehensively and suspiciously, with searching glances at us* I had the impression that he wanted to see if anyone was laughing*
2.
;-
self-display;
Hitler ^s appearance at meetings and (i) rallies are dramatized to the fullest extent. He is c^r^ful to have electric lights shining on him in such a way as to produce the most striking effects possible, etc., etc. However, one gets the impression the exhibitionism is at which limited to talking before a crowd times it is extreme --but that ordinarily he is self-conscious and ill at ease, and does not |)articularly enjoy showing himself in public, although he must do this to maintain' his power*
3.
and action*
187 -
:.
It is said that Hitler was unruly as aiyouth, intolerant of frustration. After his father's death he was given his own way and after leaving. school became increasingly resistant He was never able to rules and regulations. He wanted to be an artist and to hold a job. live like a Bohemian. We must therefore place him high on this variable although in him it does not take its usual form (defenisive individualHitler ism), due to his political ambitions the masses.. needed the alliance of
(1)
Hitler: The thought of being a slave in an office made me ill; not to be master of my own time, but to force ah entire life-time into the filling in of forms.
(ii)
(M.K. 12).
Heiden: Peder...also said that (iii) the Ptehrar must be educated in systematic work. For this purpose he had selected an officer,
"
who was to serve Hitler as secretary, to map out' the day's work according to the clock and, in general, to introduce order and a programme into the Ptbhrer's activity.- When Hitler heard this, he banged his fist on the table and shouted, "Who do those fellows think they are? But he I shall go my own way, as I see fit." secretary. accepted the
4. n Dominance
(Self -^Sufficiency)
When one is in
home, business,
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conditions on me so long as I personally bear the responsibility. And I once more bear the whole responsibility for everything that occurs in the movement*
5*
to be
Rauschning: Hitler has always been (i) poseur . He reinembers things he has heard and has a faculty of repeating them in such a way that the listener Is led to believe that they are his own.
a
7#
Oouhteractive Achievement
:-
persistent
restriving after
Heiden: When others after a defeat (i) would have gone home despondently, consoling themselves with the philosophic reflection that it was no use contending against adverse circumstances. Hitler delivered a second pnd a third assault with sullen defiance. V/hen others
>
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after a success would have become more cautious, because they would not dare put fortune to the proof too often and perhaps exhaust It, Hitler persisted and staked a bigger claim on destiny with every throw.
(ii) The very first condition for s\lch a manner, of fight with the weapons of pure force is, and will always be, perseverance* .As soon as intermittent force alternates with indulgence, the doctrine to be suppressed will not only recover again and again, but it will be able to draw new values from every persecution* Only in the eternally regular use of force lies the preliminary condition to success* (M*K* 222)#
8.
;-^
to
verbal Rejection
(i)
and.
Aggression)
Rauschning: Hitler distrusts everyone who tries to explain political economy to him. He believes that the intention is to dupe him, and he makes no secret of his contempt for this branch of science.
Hitler: My mind was tormented by (ii) the question: Are these still human beings, worthy of being part of a great nation? A torturing question it was...(M.K. 54)
Hitler: it brought me internal (ill) happiness to realize definitely that the Jew was no German. (M.K. 77)."
jt.#*armed in one's mind Hitler: (Iv) with confidence in the. dear Lord anc^ the unshakeable stupidity of the bourgeois. (M,E. 585).
190
9,
Counteractive Aggression
>^
to repay an
a
tooth;
and frustrators.
(I)
Verbal
Physical
etc*
Intradeference (Compliance )
obadlance
periences.
Hitler: But I knew just the same (I) that my place would be there where my inner voice directed me to go.
Nothing will move me to (II) Hitler: go another' way but the way which experience, insight, and foresight tell me tj^ go. (M.N.O* 374)
(N.B., Illustratioiia of this are plentiful; see Id.
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lit
Many illustrations have been given (i) under Idealego and Identification with Idealego.
12.
accomplishments of self.
Although, as I shall attempt to prove. (i) Hitler's character structure is a reaction ..formation to tendencies of which he is highly contemptuous, both these tendencies and the contempt. are largely unconscious to him. Much more conspicuous in his conscious psychology are his superiority feelings, his self-esteem, his outf lying self-confidence.
Hitler (at the age of nineteen years) (ii) waited with pride and confidence to learn the result of my entrance examination I was so convinced of my success that the announcement of my failure came like a bolt from the blue.
I
(M.K. 27).
Hitler: I devoted myself en(iii) thusiastically to my passion for architectvire. I was able to read or draw late into the night. Thus my belief that my I was never tired. beautiful- dream of the future would become reality, perhaps only after many years, was strengthened.. I was firmly convinced .that some day I would make a name as an architect.
'.
(M.K. 45).
./
(iv); (tlitler believed himsQ^f a man of destiny even while serving as a ci^rporal): In those months^ for the first time^ I felt fully the whims of fortune which kept me at the front in a place where any lucky move on the part of a negro could shoot me down, while somewhere else I would have been able to render a different
192
service to my cotintry. For I was ^old enough to believe even then that I wouia have succeeded in this. (M.K, 244)*
Hitler addressing Schuschnigg, Do you not realize that quoted by Puchs you are in the presence of the greatest German ever known to history!
(v)
:
13.
n Defendance:
to defend'dne's self-esteem
verbally
by blaming
others (extrapunistatus of. his sdlf ia'by blaming methods are these: tive reaction). Two other common Connecting se-lf with other (i) (respectable or great) people, who have l^^ppen done the same, or had the same from the same defect to them, or suffered (n Rec). Hitler: If we committed high did the treason, then countless others guilt so long as I do I deny all same. company those not find added to our little gentlemen who helped... (M3.0. auj.
' .
Proclaiming worth of criticized or of self part of self,, or another pa?t, to assert the merit of as' a whole (A Rec) a Refect what others condemn; to balance with an asset; to wipe o^^v^i^fl^i^^J^n -^r in recalling one's successes in this
(ii)
:
Hitler:- I believe that as a the eyes Nationalist Socialist I appear in a wild of manv bourgeois democrats as only SL! Lt :l^ .1W man I still (M.N. 0. 4U4;.. .{j-^'^^S^: self to be a better European, ..
193 ^
Throughout the whole of Hitler's spoken and written words are to be found many evidences that
he highly approves of the traits attributed to him
Hitler: if a people is to become free it needs pride and will-power, defiance, hate, hate and once again hate, (M.N.O. 49)
14,
Insult as stimulus
;*^:
It is characteristic
'
15*
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his conscience.
Therefore he is compelled, if he
This is demonstrated
principle of
his,
personality.
It is necessary for
lead to suicide
mental breiakdown.
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analyzed Almost all psychologists who have it by referring, Hitler's personality have interpreted formula: craving, among other concepts, to Adler's unhearable feelings of for superiority coming out of conception with inferiority . We also agree to this of Insult (wounded special stress laid upon the press tension of narcism) and the consequent residual then finding expression revenge bolted up for years and
same conclusion.
(lO
Rauschning:
Every conversation,
however
hatred. Hatred of was filled with an immeasurable Almost anything what? It was not easy to say. and his hatred. might suddenly inflame his wrath need of something to He seemed always to feel the
hate
(ii)
RauchniRg:
is something unexampled cynicism of Hitler there a hypersensitiveness. more than the repressed effect of
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It is the urge
feeling.
(iii)
Rausohning:
Hatred
personal
hatred
Heiden:
alike.
deserve mention:
!
Pl:tyaical
-.197
3*
Press of failure
;-
rivals
;"
This may be
Breakdown of courage
:-
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(a)
.;
for revenge:
of the father.
199
The death
v;ould
/
of Vienna,
These
Later
200 -
combined with a
Feminine traits.
Hitler/s senti-
woman in man#
(ii)
Hitler's
ship
201 -
(ili)
Hitler
by their murder.
attracting such
Homosexual panic.
Some of the
Rauschning: Hitler wakes at night with convulsive shrieks. He shouts for help.' He sits on the edge of his bed, as if unable to stir^ He shakes with fear, makipg the whple bed vibrate. He shou,ts confused, totally unintelligible phrases. Hq ,gasps> as if imagining himself to be suffocating^. .Hitler
.
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stood swaying In his room, looking wildly about him. "Hel He I He^s been herel" he gasped,. His lips wq re blue. Sweat streamed down his face. Suddenly he began to reel off figures, and odd words end broken phrases, entirely devoid of sense then he suddenly broke out, "There, therql In tho corner l Who^s that?" He stamped and shrieked in the familar way**.
A number of metaphors used by Hitler, images
of being stabbed in the rear, recur in his writings*
(vii) Hitler:/ The development has shown that the people who stab with stilettos in Germany are more powerful than before.
(viii) Hitler: Slowly the fear of the Marxist weapon of Jewry sinks Into the brains and souls of decent people like a nightmare. (M.K. 447).
Hitler: One bejgins to tremble (ix) before the terrible enemy, and thus one has become his final victim. (M.K# 447).
(x> Hitler: There can navey be tmity between- those who manned the walls in the hour of danger, and those who in the last moment pushed the stilelbto into their backs.
Hitler: God be thanked, this is (xi) just the meaning of Germanic democracy, that no unworthy climber or moral shirker can come in the back way to rule his fellow citizens* . .but should, nevertheless, such a fellow try to sneak in, then he will be easily found out and ruthlessly rebuffed. Out with you, cowardly wretch! Step bapk, you ar^ soiling the steps; the front stairs leading to the Pantheon of History is not for sneaks but for heroes. (M.lK. 117).
203
Hitler's exaggerated
(B^
1
(ii)), but a
masochism ^
Hitler, quoted by Rauschning: The plain man in the street respects, nothing but brutal strength and ruthlessness -- women, too, for that matter, women and children. They need wholesome fear. .They want to fear something* They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive
(i)
I Hitler, quoted by Rauschning: the new man -- fearless have seen the vision of and formidable,: I shrank from him.
(ii)
Hitler: I^ike a woman, whose psychic (iii) feeling is influenced less by abstract reasoning
than by an uhdefinabie, sentimental longing for complementary strength, who will, submit to the strong man rather than dominate the weakling, thus the masses love the ruler rather than the suppliant. (M.K 55)
(N.B^i.
projection of self).
Hitlerr He who would win the great masses mustv know the key which ppens the door Its name is not objectivity, to their hearts* that is^' weakness, but will powey and strength.
(iv).
(M.K. 458).
:,
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insurmountable frustration*
critical abasements, we
his
(i) Hitler, quoted by Rauschning: But my magnificent V youngsters! Are there finer ones any^'here in the world? Look at these young men and boys J What materia 11 With them I can make a new world
did the eyes of . .how Hitler my boys (Hitler youth) shine when I made clear to them the necessity of their mission. (M.K. 729).
(ii
)
:'
..vanity in a beautiful, Hitler: (ili) well shaped body (to be encouraged by men wearing less concegiling clothes).
It is reported by Rauschning that Hitler has
Repression of Femininity, 'Counteraction II. by Identification with Powerful Male Idea ego
The ruthlesg
205
Hitler^s aggressive-
The varieties
is-
of hi&self .^
III*
enimie rated
of them, ihight be
t6 call: attentlpn^
opposite tendency,
206^
(a)
superiority of bteed.
tion
He,
minded.
(b)
my young men be
youth
--
Note
athletics*
(c)
more Germans.
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(d)
istic anarchy
reported by Rauschning. us is a statement of Hitler's young, I km hegihnilng with the (i) Y^s, .we are old we older ones ai-e used up, the marrow. . .we We ar e rotten t n alreadv f^^'ttl:.A rZ ".n^ .entimenUi.- We are bearing pas t; ana have on ; ^^ ^!::L If' humiliating Xou of serfdom our bi^Xthe dull recoiiec L my magnificent youngster^l and servility.. But .-./. ,etc* \
'-'
..
.'
.^
"^
'
The uninitiated but .pure manmagic himself in Kling>.or'3 is tempted to abanddn and excesses of corrupt gardeS! to the lusts elite of llviS^ation, instead of ^joining th. e,puioux kniehts who guard the secret of 411 ;?^^!?ro .>.! .offering frott the allmen^_^f Tn^i^i^puriry : How c V, LI : corrupted ...mount the aton ement? ourselves and make steps. of a new nobility,
Ml)
bi^
IV.
This is as good
M place
to have been, in
208 -
1.
Lueger,
with
3*
and traits:
warming up period
209 -
3*
action:
'?
etnd,
ideology^
210 -
There were no
Conse-
quently,
.the
211^
VII.
/'7
Hitler has
..,
,1.1
,.";....
,.
-'
Two quotations
(II)
\.
.-noted incapacity to Impose his will in a small circle, and his consummate skill in winning over a crowd prepared by publicity ajid stage management, and then, with its aid, vanquishing the
,
I
tion.
3.
212 -
longings.
4.
to
dedicate themselves to
common
are
as-
hungry for
213 -
It is an error to believe
philosophy.
pertinent,
(i)
All ft)rce which does not spring from a firm spiritual foundation will be hesitating and uncertain* It lacks the stability which can only rest on a fanatical view of life*
(M.K. 222).
Every attempt' at fighting a view of life by means of force will finally fail, \mless the fight against it represents the form of an attack for the sake of a hew. spiritual direcOnly in the struggle of two views of tion. life with each pthei*. ;Can the weapon of brute force, used continuously and ruthlessly, bring about the decision in favor of the side it supports. (M.K. 223).
,(ii)
8.
214
forces In vlvld^ concrete iinagery that is linderstandable and inoving to the ordinary, man >
This cornea
th(3
form of Imagery
force on earth*
cold,,
objective
the,
deepest unconscious
and writers*
action does not take placei if the emotions are not m II "
>ii
*!
Ml.
'
'
'
"^
'
'
"
'
^1.
II
II
I,
involved *
- 215. -
ii B
ill
|,iw
rallies,
,
1
111,1,11,
i{
.,,
arid m n n feiatival a. M n ^
il
l
ii
ii
This involves ^
--
ii
the
can accomplish
The intense
215
12.
This most
What is involved
It is the spectacle
social purpose.
They
I submit,
217 -
pronouncement
14
Hitler, quoted by Deuel: Only (1) storm of glowing passion can turn the destinies of nations, but this passion can only be roused by a man who carries it within himself.
a
.,.the forceful impression- of great pverwheimlng viewpoints. . the convincing force of \inconditional belief (M.K. 570). in them.
(ii)
15
Mastery,
of-
tion4
218
17
Mtler
'
'
.1.1
1
1
..
I..
it^ is
What
disorderly and romantic style of life is .very comparable to the pattern which authors have found most
TemperaOne
a
life
As Thyssen
Even in a
- 219 .
19
Thus, Hitler
Vs
course is immensely
21.
This has
never to admit
blame
;
time
;
(
blame that
220 -
power as
popular orator
221 -
PREDICTIONS
neurotic
strength.
has spoken,
value.
222 -
nervous Illness
If his
military Staff
are"
If
after a victory.
weep^
- 223 -
or shot*
the above course of events
But
Thus we can
of
-a
This is not
224 -
in Germany will
be*
military or political
Finally, if
At a
e'^lite
countrymen as
valiant hero.
He is very likely to
point of view.
immortality
-*-
Serman :
-^
Hitler
But
225 -
he"
Thus, he
.n
il
III
IP
I..
Itll.
11
>
.ll.*!
manner*
'
him prisoner*
Ais
a:
clima-jc he
226
(a
suitable
silver bullet
neutral country : -
course.
persuade
hiir
Since the
that either 3 or 4.
?
This out-
This would be
8 but is
SECTION IV
>
II
n.
II
SECTION V
Suggestions for the Treatment of Hltl^er > Now and After Germany s: Surrender /
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>
Secition VI
Part D)