A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler

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A F 3 I C H 0 L 0 G I C U i H A L T S I S
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ADOLFI HITLER*
HIS LIFE AHD LEGEBD
REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
.W a l t a r C. l a n j u
M. 0. Branch
Offlc* of Strategic
Witb tfa* af-
PPOX* Hemy A* IhiWay, Banm^ Psychological

Dr. Eraat KrlP» KM Schwl for Sooiftl Re**arcli
Vr* Boxtrft* DP LAWIA, »•» Tork Pajohofinalytic Iuu>tltut«
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Preface
Part I
Hitler - ^ be himseif to be
Hitler - As ttja German peoplfl know 19
Part III
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P a r t IV
Hitler - AB hfl knowfi himself 90
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Hitlar'B Probable Behavior In tto Future MS
Appendix - Complete Bibliography
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This study i* not propagandistic In any genee of tha

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ten* I t represents an attempt to screen the wealth of contra-
dlctory, conflicting and unrallELble uterLal concerning Hitler
lute strata which will b# helpful to tba poUcr-utera and those
who wlah to frame a counter-propaganda. For this reason tba firnt
thr*o pwtu era pursly dsscriptivB and d*&l with ths JHO (1) an ha
to h l u o l f , (2) no ho has bean pictured to th* G*rmaa p«opl»,
(5) how ha.lv known to hie aasociAtas. Thnta 0action* contain
the basic Material for the pfjohologloal analysis In flection* If

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and V in * J.eh an &tt*»pt i s ud« to understand a±tler as a parson
and the BiotlTatlonD.undarlyl1^ h±B. .actloo** _._.__

Tto •ateriol available for such an analyuin i i
and spottj. FortujiAteljf *a have had at our disposal
of informants *ho knew Hitler wall and mho hora bean
lng to cooperate to the beet of their abilities • Ibe

mould hftTo bean eotirelj inpoaslbla w«r* I t not for th* faot that
i s & ral&tlnJj h.tgh dsgree of hgr«aw#nt In the description*
of Hitler 1 0 bahariar, sentinaQts and attitudes giTflja^by thes* —^
iafoTButs. With this as a baelfl i t s**w#d
to proceed with tba study filling in th* laetua* with

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gained f n » d i a l o a l experienoe in daallng with lndiTlduals of

a fllnilar type. This la not an vntlfelj aatlsfactory proceduret
sc ientific point of view* but i t Is the only feasible
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•ethod at tin prttsent tin*. Thrtroehout th# study *• t t n tried

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to ba u obj w U w fc* possible in eroluating hii atrmfftba u
well tie hli

All plain mipbare in ponnttrti«» r«far to ti» pag* of
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The Eitlar 3ouw»-Boolfrt * companion m>lu»B In ihicb the original

is to b# Xoual tag*thar with the c<»pl*t* r«f*r«iu»«
la p«rwBth*Mi praudad by M« £. w M, K. 0, refer to
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in Heiu K*apf and Xf H*w 0rt«r, r»flpflcUTBlj,

Indsx to t i » origlii*! Material 1« to b* found a t th«
of tt» Bourw-Boot. A «o^)l*t* Blbllograp^ i# app*iad»d to t h i s
It th*t ths fltuly my be helpful in gaining
dwper intg i d o l ^ J i U e r and the GMMJI people and
that It •*? eer*w *B * gold* for <rar propageM* acUîtio* *•
m i l at our future doellnge with tiam*

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PART I
HULBt - Ag iff HM3BLT 10 SS
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At the tl»»'of thflroo&jup&tioDof th* KhiDelaud,
In 1956, Hitler Bed* use of an extraordinary figure of spaaoh
In describing, hi? DID conduct* He uatdt

•I follow v? course with tha precision
, and uaoiirl'hr of a
Eton at that tlw* i t struck tbn world aa

for tb* undiflputad lsodei- of 67,000,000 paopla to aakv at tha
of an iBtematloual criniit- Hltlsr nunt i t to b* a
of rvaBPQTtvca for hie more vary followers who questioned
thfl wlpdtM of hio COUTP*. It flvava, howorer, th»t i t n e a
tm* confePBion and had bis warj follower^ only realicod it»
significance and i^pllcatloan th«y wotiLl
far (preater conceit tlian th»$ .arqo*ad by to

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tlh.* RhlofliUBd* P&r tha COUTH of this

carried hi» orer Baoy imtravell*l poads"which finally led
unerringly to a pinnacle of putcaas and jKrtr&r never reacted
before, And o t i l l It l a n d U * on until today he »tamla on tbe
brink of disaster. Ha will go down in hifrtozy »* tia* iwat
w^rsbipped and to* n » t denpieed i u the world nafl vr«r knom*
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Ifony people have stopped and aeked th«aftlTa«i "la
this Bfto BiaoefO In hla uadertakiagn or i s he a fraud?*
Certainly #Ten a fragwdtary knowledgfi of hin paflt l i f e wurrantli
nuch a queatloA, particularly aln«* our co^rvspoDdentB he»a
preaantsd us with »»ny conflictla* Tie**, At tiwaj i t oeesed
iO»oflt inconoeiVablfl that a JMH could be aincere and do what

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Sltlar baa dona In tba oourea of hid car par, lad j * t all of
his fomar associates l&oft n bara bnu abla to contact, as
wall AS naiy of our tost capable foralga eorraffpoiKtoatB, or*
firmly ccurrincad ttant Hitler actually doe a be Li a n in hi B cum
ffr*ataese, *jûiiio rtportp tJtxat Hitler eaid to Schu»Ghnigg during
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"Do you realise tbnt you ar» In tb«-pr*nnc*
of tiia CTMtast Gartum of *U tint?11
I t nak«a l i t t l e difftrmc* to* our pwpoB* whatber
he actually apokd tbeu word* or not at tblt purtloulsr tin*
as allagad. In this aanttnca h* baa vumad up in & vary f «
*ords an attituda thlch ha ha» axprvâad to BOB* of our infowmta
In person» To RauBchninc, for 4zamplat bft onoe Midi
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Ab«r ich braocho «ia ulcht, un alar Ton
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vu lftaD«4,* (TIT)
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iud to Strasflfir, idw flaea took tha l i b s r V of uyiiif to Bttler
that he WHS afraid that Hitlftr waa Hiitaten, b« anldi
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"I cannot bs DiBtakan* Itmt I do and oay

i ( hiatoricia,» (578)
ttany othar ouch parnonAl Btateaents could b« ÎTBII* Oachnnsr
bas suBwd up bis attituda in thia raspaot revy n i l In thn
wotdflt
•D* f«4la Uut no on* in German hiptor^ n t
equippad eff ha i s to bring tb* Gcrn&na to
tba poeitloD of mpr*UA7 wfaJLcb all Etonian
atfttvBun baTa f*lt tb*y de«»rvad but n n t
unabla to aebi«** p - (6*9)
Thi» attituda 1» not conf in#d to hi«HLf a,P a

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also balieTsft hiainlf to be ttw g»s.t«at war lord as,

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example, *hen he BBJB to
*Icb epiela nicht ftxleg. Icb

aieht Ton 'Faldharra1 ta«iiandi*r*iw Dan
ErUff ftuhra flan* Den eigSDtliabAii
Zeltpurikt 3UB fcigrlf f t*&tUn# i c h» Es
gibt mir tinea guenstigw. Ieh wwda mt
l «uet»n. Hit aisonur
lflih w^dw ihn nicht
Aad It eacBS to to true that he baa mada a ouabar of <gontributianB
to Gonnaa offensive and dafeneiva tacticfl and atrat«gy* H#
bellavea hiaiaeLf to be an outstanding judge 1A Igg&l uttara and
does not blush Whan he atanda befo» the Reichstag, ifaile
to the wliolfl Torld, and
"For tta* l i d t tw&tj^fûr houra i n « tb«

supr*ais court of the toman people,"
t too, hfi ballavofl biuBaU to be the greatest of all Geratua

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•/ ardiiteote atid -apanda .a great deal of his tiae In akatcfaitu ae«
ge and plfinniAg ULO reMOdallog of eatirv titiafl. In spite

of the fact that ha failed to pasa tlie eaoulaatioaB for
to the Art School h« beliwaa bdjtaalf to bo Uift only
a l l mat tars of art. A f«w yanrs ago ha appointed *

of thraa to act aa final judges on all matter B of
art, but when their verdicts did not pld&aa HiJt ho dia«J.»aod thaa
and aaauoaed tbalr duties hlaaelf* It vaJna l i t t l e difference
inathar tha field be fcoponioa, «duoati?n, forvign affair*,
propaganda, •07ia&, lualc or vooan1* dress* In each wad every
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ha balisrva hinaelf to be an uuqueBtloned authority• .

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E* also pridan hla«*ir on his bardnaes and

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"I u ona pf th« hArdast H U OonoDy OAB DJ4

for daosd*s7 perhaps for canturi*ar aquipped
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t . with the g r * a t « t authority of any _

leader * * • btit atw** a l l , I belie™ la
*r success. I J w l i e n In ituneoaditiomllj*''
( (JUN«O. 371) K
Thia bailed la his own pow&r actually border* oa a f M!LQ£ of

omipotanc* which h« 1B not reluctant to display.
'Since tbfl ftTOnta of last rear, hie
In bia own gaaius, in his lnatinct, or ap
ona Might BS7, ib hie atar, iff houndl#as.
Tbosa wbQ parrgdmd hia are the firtit to
adjtit that ha new thinks hlaaelf infalllbl*
and Lnrlncible, That explflinn «b7 he cm
&C longw b«ar »ith«r critlcisa or
diction* To contradict hla i s in
a arlna o f , > l » u aajadta1} opposition to bis I
plane, froa whatevar Bids i t nnj oune, i* a
deflnlta •etrllegft p to which the only raply
la on ipaiadlat* and striking display of his
(Frmaoh Yellor Boot, 945j
Another diplomat roporta a similar

I fixut not hi» f hia logic and saaee
^ realities 'had -iaprwaBwl-flB^- but -as t i j *
i w t oa he appeared to us to become BOM and
dor* unnaaoiwble and More and m n
of hi* own i n f a l l i b i l i t y and g
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s»«Mflt therefore, to ba l l t t l o POM for doubt
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concerning Hitler'B f l m belief in his o n greatneao, He n u t

now inquire Into the aourcas of tola belleif. tdxoot all writer B
havtt attributed Hitler 1 e oonfid«no« to the fact that be is a
graat believer in satrology and that he ID constantly iD touch
with sirtrolog*rs who adriat hla concaroinf hla course of action,
this i s alaoBt certainly untrue • i l l of our informants who ha**
Itnown Hitler rather intinatoly discord the ldaa as absurd* They
all Rgrv« that Dothins in nore foreign to Hitler's personality
than to seek help Trca outside aourcea of thia t^po* The
infontant of the Dutch Legation holds a similar ritm* He sayst
"Hot only han the Fuehrer error had his

borosoop* cast, but ha Is la principle
against horoscopes bacause be f«aln hs
might be tmcDuaciouely lnfluanaod by-
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I t la alig indicative tliat Hitler, SODB tin* befora the war,

forbad* t i e practice &f fortw-teUUjog and star-reading in
Garmany.
I t Is true that from tbe oiitaid* I t looks as though -

Oltlar night be acting under *om& guidance of this aort which
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gives hie the fsaling of conviction In hifl infallibility-

Thtoe storifls probably originated In the vary early day a of -
tht Party* According to StraftBar, during tho awly 1920' fi
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Hitler twk r#gular isaaoDB in ipaaking and la nasa psychology

from ft SAD QAMd HJamufian who u a Alio a practlolug astrologttr Ur .,
«Dd ôFtunv-UUer* Be was an txtrtnftly d a r w Individual tho

taught Hitler A great doal conftarnioj th« taportait^* of staging
boatings to obtain th* greatert draaatio effect* As far ad can
be learned, ha oeror h*d any particulnr intarftat lii'the voraaent
or any say on irtiat courae i t should folio*. I t ia poBflibl* that
Hanussen bad some contact with a group of astrologer a T referral
to by on* von Wlegand* into n r « very active In Munich at tals
tin*. Through Banuiaisaa Hitler too nay have JOB* In contact with
this grotty i for TOD iriBgand mrltaat
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I fir«t1tn*T Adolph fliUar in Munich, in

and !&££, ha was in touch with a tlrelA
that ballavad firmly In tha portenta of tho
stars, Dwr* was Moob vhlsparing of-the
onlng of •another Charlfugue mod a naw Reich',
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Qw i « r Hitler baU«v*d In thus* astrological
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forautta abd propbeoWd in thoea days I

nvwr oould gat out of Der Fuehrer, Ha
Mfclthar denied nor fttfixwd balief. &«
not J W T M , however, to aakiiig us* of the
forecasts to advance popular faith In hiuself
end lila tb*a young sad struggling
It i s quite poaoibla that tnm ttwsa begluninga the Myth of his
association* with astrologer a has groin.
Although Hitler haft done considerable reeding in a

variety of field a of study, ha does not la any way Attribute hie
infallibility or omieclanea to any Intellectual endeavor on his
pert* On the contrary, he frowns on such sources whan It comas
to guiding the dftfttlny of nations. His opiniod of the intAUaot
la, la fafit, extraaaly low, for in Tarloua place a ha uk*a
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OJT Baconduqr iaporUac* 1* th* traialtvg of
paopU, atQffed with knoilodg*

and intellect, but bare of &nj sound instinctn.
'Those lnpodent re seals (intelleetuals) ifco
always kno* eTar/thin^ better than anybody alM
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"The intallaat ha* grown Autocratic, and has

a diflaau of
Hitler's £Uid« is ametain^ different entirely* It

v w i eertaln that Sitler belieireii that he has beaa wat to
Gerwmy by ProTld«noe and that ha baa a particular nisalon to
perront. KB 1B ptrdbably not clear on the eoppu of this mlaeion m
beyond tha fact that ha has bwn ohoa«a to rt^J*** tb* Gentan
P*opli and reihap* Surape, Ju^t bow thl« is to be acco»plisb«d
la also rather T*gu* in hit aind, but this does not aoaeern hlx
because an *inn»r Ttsiea* comunlafttep to hla th* eteps
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ba iff to take, ThJ-B I D the guld* which leads him on h i s COUTH
with the precision and security of &- aleep-*walker*
"1 carry out Prorldeae*

has laid upon « * • (490)
•Ko powttr on earth oan ahake the Geraan Reich

aov, Prorl4»nca ha* will** I t that I
through tfc# fu]_flLLnsat of the
(415)
"But if the Toica spaaJcs, than I know the tine

COBfl tO Eftt-11 (714)
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It la tbi.8 flra couTlatlou that ha ha A a nleaion end1 is undor
guidance and protection of Fr&vLdenCe which Is rsaponslbla Ln
large port for the contagious effect h« had had on the Garnau
Many p*opda ballava that t2iia fe#ling of Dastio/ and
have coma to Hitler through hie BUQC*0B4P* Thla is

probably.fal$at Later in our fltndj (Part T) n will ttj to
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•how that Hitler has had this. feeling for a great nanj year*
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although i t nay aot hare baoose a comicioufl conTictlon u n t i l
later* It) any oasa i t waa forcing i t a way Into ooascioue-
during the war And ban played a dominant role In hie

actions ever sinc«« U*a& (one of hla canradea)^ for axaapla p
"An eina tlganartiga Propheaniuog errlner* .

ioh aleh ns&b in dieae» ZuaajBshhaoft £nr>
wlr noch TOD lhm hoaren warden*

M r *oll«b wur
Then, too, Hitler ha* rsportad aanrpl locidtnts 'during the war
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which provvd to him t i n t he was under Divine protection* The

HO at Bt*rtlin£ of thtts* i s the following i \-

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1 was eating HJ dinner In a trench with •
several comrades. Suddenly a TO lift seeined

H, to bo saving to na, 'Get up sad go o « r there*'
I t was BO clear stud insistent that I obeyed
b u t o u t i c a l l j , ftB i f i t ha<J been a a i l l t a r y
order* I rase at once to py feet and walked
twenty yard* along the trench carrying my
dinner in Itfl tin can with me« Thea I sat
down to go on eating, i^y nind be log once ta.<m
at r«st» Hardly had I done BO l&Ml a flasli
and daafoning report caj» fttw the part of the
trench I had Just l e f t . JL stray ehell hjsid burnt
over the group l a which I had baaa s i t t i n g * and
every number of I t was killed. 11 (Pi-lea, £41)
Theat also, there wae the via ion he had while ID hospital at
Pasew&Ut Buffering from blindness flllegoUj caused by

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•Ala lch ID Beit lag kan mir dor Gadanka,

da£s ich Deutflchland befreieoa vuerde t
flfl gross aachan wuflrde, und ich babe
gewuajtt, daes das mrwirklicht warden
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These vsperleDcas nu&t later bd*9 f i t In beautifully

with the views of the Munich aetrologere and i t i s possible that
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underneath Hitler f e l t that If there n t any truth in ihoir
predictions they probably referred to blm* But i n thofle days
he did not nentlou any connection betwaen the« or dwell on the
guidance he belief ad be posMseed* Perhape ha f e l t that
nida at the boglxuiiog of the naTOmant sight hinder rather
than, help i t * Howsver, as von Wiegand has pointed out, be wafi
not avarae to Aalcing use of the forecaflts to advance h i s owa
end a* At that t i n s he n e content with the role of a "anawr"
who was heralding the coning of the real Hvlor* Er*n then,
howenr, the role of dnaawr was not *P innocent or as lnaig-
nifleant in Hitler 1 * »ind as night be supposed* This waa brought

out in hlfl testimony during the t r i a l following the
Beerhall Putsch of 1923. At that tins ho flai d:
"Hehuen Sifl die Oeberzeugung hln f daes ich

d l s Errlnguae eines Hinlsterpoetena nicht
•lfl erfltrebebJwart Hnsehe. lah hclta 63
Bine groasen Mannes nlcht flu&r wnerdlgeeeinen
tf^Bflu d&r Geactiichte nur d«4uroh twberli&fern
xa wqll»n t d&flaar Ulaiater wird* Wftff air Tor
Augen stand, daa TTRP YOB are ton Tags
•ahr) ich wall to der Zerbrecher der MBTXLU
warden. loh werde die Jluef(abs lo«aea^ mid
wwm ich *1G loBSs, diqn n&«ro dar
Uinifltera fu#r inlch oLaa La&oherllchJtelt. Ale
Ich sum eraten Hal yar Richard fiagnora Crab
da quoll nlr daji Here uebor TOT Stela,,
t i e r 4lo Hocin ruht, der es aldi TfiztBt^n
bat, hltiaiif saflehrflibflai Ul^r ruht Geheiarat
JiuplkdLraktor fircallena Baron Richard Ton
Wagner. Ich war stol2 dor4ufr daa» dlft&or
Uum und 00 Tiele Uaeunar dar dîitflchen
Geschichte filch dasit bffgnua^tfln, ihroD Naman
dar Dachwttlt EU uebftrllftfoiî, nlcht litron Titel*
Hioht aus BoBcheidenlialt wo l i t e Ich
vein* Das i a t dfiff Hoftchste, da A and*r»
oino Kloinigkelt^
After his etay in Laalsbarg Hitlor no longor referred
to hima«lf aa tto MrTuaaer** Occaoionallj he would dadcriba his-

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self in the word* of St* llatthflfw, "a& a voiae crying in th*
wilderness 11 , or as St. John the Baptist whoa A duty was to hew
a path for him whs was to cone and laad the nation to power and
glory, Uore frequently, however, ha referred to hisfielf afl
"thfl Puehrar11, a anae chosen by Hoflfl during their inprieonmant*
(901)
As tiiae went ont i t became clearer thflt he TAB thinking
of hta£eir B-B the Heflaiah and liiat I t was he who was destined
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to l»ad GflrH&ny to glory. His references to the Bible becajne •
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Ccbparijona batmen Christ and himpaLf became mote
mi»rou£ and found their way Into his conversation and
For axauplOj ha would say i

I cane to Berlin a few wealcs a«o and
locked at th.6 traffic la the flmrfuersttta-
daraa, th* luxury, the perversion, the iniquity,
the wanton display, and the Jewish matarialiam
diagiutted me flo thoroughly, that I was aLuost
beside aysslf * I nearly Imagined nypalf to be
JeffuB Christ when HA daoa to His Father 1 a teftple
and found i t taken by the HOBey-changarfu I
can well imagine how He f a i t when He freiied a
whip and scourged than out*" (90S)
During his speech* according t o Hanfstangl, he swung

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his whip around violently as though to drlva cut the Jews and
the fonjojs of darkness^ Uie camLss of (tonaany and GOTHUID honof^
Dietrich Eckart, who discover ed Hltlsrfta a possible Leader and

I had witnessed this performance, said later, "When a nan gsta to
the point of identifying hlna^lf with Jasus Chriet, than h*
la ripe for an insane asylum." The id«ntlfication in a l l thla
w&a not with Jeflufl Christ, the Crucified, but with Jesus ChrlBt,
the furiouPt lashing the crowds*
As a natter of f a c t , Hitler has veiy l i t t l e admiration
for Christ, the Crucified* Although he was brought up a Catholic,
and received Coiuninian, during "the war, he aeTarsd h i s connection

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with the Church directly .afterwards* Tbie kind of Christ he
considers soft and weak and unsuitable aa a .German

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The l a t t e r nuflt T>» hard and brutal i ! h* i e to save

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and lead i t to yitsfoaling as a Christian pointH w to

destiny*, ,
Lord and Saviour ae & fighter* It points
se to the man who one* in
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surrounded by only n few followere,

these Java for what they wara and
sen to fight ageLnst than and who, GodTB truth 1
waa greatest not as a *uffer»r but as a fighter*
In boundlePB lore, ad a Christian and as it man,
I read through tha passage which t e l l e u- how
the Lord roea at last in His night and seised
the scourge to drive out &f the Temple the
brood of -rlpere and adders. How terrific
*&9 the fight for tha world agKinat the Jewieh
And to Rauiichning ba ones referrod to *th* Jewish Chriet-«*efld

with .ltd afffimiziate, pity-Hthice".
It ia not clear frc« the evideDce whether tha n*r State

religion was part of Hitler* E pl&n or whether developsenta m »
such that i t became fen Bible. It ie true thatflofls&berghad long
adTOtated such a aov*t but th«ra la no evldanco that Hitler WBB
inclined to toke such a drastic fitap until after he had cone to
ptjner» I t ia p&aaibl6 that he f a i t he needed the power befoi* ba
could Initiate auch a chaioge, or i t nay ty that hifi aeries fif
fitiCCeGBee were ao atartliiig that tiw people Bpontarte&ualy adopted
a religion* attitude toward* hit which wade the HOT™ piora or lens
obvtoua* In any caae, he has accepted thie God-like rolft without
enj heaitstloti or evbarraAandtit* ihito t^lle u# that now when
he i s address ad with th& salutation, 'Hail Hitler, our Savior11,
be bows slightly at tha compliment in the phraae - fciwt OBUQTBI
it* £S64} Aff tine goes on, i t bee one a uore and aore certain
that Hitler believes that h» in really the "ChopeTi One" and that
in his thinking be eoncelT*s of himBelf A A a oecond Christ who
hue been Bant to Institute In tb* world a new uyetBin of valued
based on brutality and violence. Be has fallen in lave with
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th* iwhga of Mo&e3-f In this role And baa surrounded himself
with h i s o*n portraits.

Oils mission ae&mB to lure his to s t i l l greater heights.
j
Wot content with the role of transitory aevior i t pueh&e him on
to higher goalfl - he naiBt u t th* pettarn for generations to
ctm«. Tan Viegsvd flavst

"In v i t s l matters Hitler ifi far from
unmindful of the name and record of
roocefra and failure ha will, leave to
posterity** (495)
Nor i e he content to allow these pattern? to evolve in a natural
way. In order to guarantee the future he f e e l s that he alone
ca£ blHl I t to thefla principles* Be believe a, therefore, that
ha must tocoms an. imaortel to the Gerwtn peoplft* Everything
MUirt be huge aud befitting ftfl a Monuxent to the honor of Hitler*
Eis lo>a of a pernanent building ie ane which will &ndvure at
l e a s t a thousand jeara, Hia highwayfi nnist be known as "Hitler
Hlgbw»jB", axd they must endure for longer period't of t l » than
th# Mapoleonic roada* He must always be doing th* impossible
and lflfiTlng hie nark on ths country* This ia one of the waya
in which ha hopes to atty all** iaa the ninda of the German

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peopla for ganar&tlona to COM.

I t ifi alleged by many writers^ among them Haffner
t4le), HUBS (410) and Wagner (48B), that he has alreedy drawn
extensive pl^ns for h i s own neueoleua- Our Infonnantfij iho
l e f t Qermany som* time ago, are not in a poaltion to verify
tbeae r*porte» They consider th*a well within the re nit of
po*»ibilitj' t bowftVK-, Thi» mudolAum i * t o b# the meoca of

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after hifr deaths It la to b« a treaendou& monument

•bout TOO f*et high, with all the details worked out so that
tb« greatest psychological effect night be attained- It 1B
Also alleged that his firet"errand la Farifl after th* conquest
in 1&40 was A vi&lt to th* Do» do* Invalided to study th*
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momuwnt to Jfapolaon, fie founa this lacking in many reepecte.
For «xaapl«> they had put his down ID a hal* which foread people
to look down rather than high up.

"I shell never oata mcb a mistake,*1 Hitler
said suddenly- "I know haw to keep ay hold
on people after I have pa seed on* I shall
be the Fuehr&r they look up at and go hwa
to talk of aal r«Benb«T4 tiy l i f e shaU
Dot end in thfl IMTO font of deaths I t n i l l |
on the contrary, begin then-K (410)
It was believed for a time that the Kehlstein had
originally built AP an eternal mausoleum by Bitl«r* It
however, that If that was his original ibtcuatlon he Lee abandoned
i t in favor of something even *oro grejidloa«» Perhaps the
Eehlpteiti imp too inaccefffflbla to enable large numbers of people
to cone and touch his to«b ID ordar to bacon** inspired. In any
CB.BBt i t flAfiios that far nora txtraTftgant pluia have been developed,
plan, i f i t ie to t* sqqcflftBful, n«4da conatant enotional

play on hyeteric neas ulndtu and the more he can arrange the
ways and neons of achierljig this, after he di«a> the nor*
assured ha la of attaining liis final goal*
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"H* la firmly convinced that th« furious v

„. pact and th* epochal a^w in which h* l i w d
and DOTHI (he r«ally Is comriac«d that he
1B thv motivstln^ fore* and tha Mouldar
of that iigej will termin*t* soon after hip
death, swinging the world by nature and
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into a long span of

marked by & sort of quiet Inactivity.
People In hi * Ôto jtar Reich* t i l l build
dominants to hind and £0 around bo touch mid
look &t the thinge ha has built, he thought-
Ha said as much on that glorifi«d v i s i t of
hie to Rose lit 1956, adding that a thousand
ytare hence the greatness And tot th# ruins
of hie own tijw oust intrigue tha psopl* of
tfcos* far-away days* For, believe i t or nntt
that ia bow tha nind of thlfl man Hitler
proj«&te itself without a blush over the
(410)
Thuro waa also a tine A few 7*ari> Ago when, he cpoke a
good deal about ra tiring when hi a work TBS done* I t was
that ha would then take up his residene« in Barchtesged«n and
aa Qod who guide a the deatlnies of the Raich until h» diflfl- In
July, 135E, while vlaitlflf the Wagner family, he talked at
about getting old Wi complained loitterl^ that ten j#srB of
time had haon lost between tha Beernall Putsch In 19£5 and bib
flcceseion to power* This was all very regrattable since he
dieted that i t would tak* twenty-two years to get things in
adequate ohapa 00 that he could turn thwn over to hie puccvB
(956) I t is. BUpposeu hy aame writers th&t durine this period
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of retirement he would also writ* a book which would stand for

eternity as a great bible of National Socialien* (l) This i s
rather intorflHting in view of Roahii1^ sta tenant mtdfl
y#are agot
M
Am liebetep tnet or Heute »chon iti don
B«rgsp flitian und dan li«ben Gott
apielen** (716)
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A survay of e l l the evidence forces ua to conclude that
Hi t i t * belierea hi*fiplf destined to b*C0H» an Iworlal

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chosen by God to be the Nev Deliverer of Geroaqy and the Founder
of a DBW uociil order for the world* He firmly believe! this
and i* certain that laa epite of all the trisle And tribulations
through which he must papn ha will fitftliy Attain that goal.

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The one condition l e thai be follow the dictates &f the loner -
voice which hare guided and protected hi* in the peat, this
conriction 1B c o t root*d In the truth of the Idea a her Import e
but i s based on the convict ion of his' own personal
(146) Eoirard K. Sbitb B&lcee an interesting

"I wae conviiicfld that of a l l the' millions
on whov the Hitlerfcforthhad fastened
the nest carried away was Adolpb HltXerr
* (290} '
We w i l l hare occaflton in Part T to exeksine the
of this coDViotion and the role i t ploys in Hitler 1 a
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When we try to formulate a conception of Molph Hitler

aa the German people know hi* pa stoat not forfflt that their
knowledga of hla ifi Halted by a controlled press* Macy thousands
of Gernuip haTOBeen his in pernon, particularly in the past, and
CM u£» thin experience as a bA«l£ for their individual conception
of him.
\ fro* a physical point of View, ie not,

a very imposing figure: / certainly not the. Platonic idea of a
gr#at, fighting Leader or th# Deliverer of Genoany and the
creator of a Hew Reich, In height he i s * l i t t l e below average.
HI a hipa ore wide and his ahoulctara relatively narrow* Hie
are flabbyj hie lege short* thin and spindly, the latter
hidden in the past by hti&vy boots and uore recently by
trou*era* lie baa & large torpo and i s hollow-chested to
the point where I t i s said that he has his uniforms padded,
FTOD a physical point of riew ha could ":>t paap the
to hie om elite guard,
Sis drees, in the early days.* was no more
Be frequently wore the Bavarian mountain coatiuie of leather
shorts with white, shirt and Buapenderc* Theee wen not always
too clean and with hie ncuth full of brown, rot tec teeth a&d
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hie long dirty fingaraailp he presented rather a grotesque

picture* {T, Wagner) kt thin ti*« he also had a pointed
beardr and his dark brown hair wafl parted in the siiddln and
pasted down flat against hi A head with oil* Nor WB* hi* gait
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ttaat of a s o l d i e r . "It me e very ladylike walk. Dainty
l i t t l e steps. Every few ateps he cocked hie right shoulder
nea-Tflualy^ hie l e f t leg snapping up an be did BO." (£7Sj
He alao had a t i c In hid face which caused the corner of
lip6 to curl upward, (465) When speaking ha always dreaaed
in a couion-loaking blue suit irhich robbed him of a l l distinctive-
nesa* At the t r i a l following tha misuccee-sful Bft&rhall Putsch
Edgar Hovrer, who saw hip for the f i r s t tine, aakad himself i
"Wne tliifi provincial dandy, irlth hip

dark haii", hifi cut&mj coat, h i s awkward
gestured and g l i b topgua, the terrible
roball OB geev&d for a l l tbs world l i k e
a travelling Balflflman for A clothing
flra." (64EJ
Kor did he HSJES a nuch better iapreaoion l a t t r on*
Thoapflon, upon her f i r s t Beating, da scribed h i s in the
following
"Ue ia formless-, almost facalees, a von

wfaopa couateaanca i s a caricature T a
mail wboB* frajievcn-k flaene cartilaginous,
without bones. OB id inconaaquaat and
Toluble, i l l poisad and insecure* Ha
i s th« T«ry prototype of the l i t t l *
()
Smith (£69) also fouod hl» "th* apotfaeoffia of tha l i t t l e mao%
funny looking, sclf-conacioud and unsure of hlnself.
I t bB7 bo euppodad that t h i s ifl only the Judgment of
AnericaJi jouxnaliBtB who hawe a different standard of BUflculin
beauty* However, while teetiTying as a witness in the -LAW
i t 19ZE, Professor ICax won Grafcw of tha Univeraity of

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j and ta^ HOfft cmiiiHnt aufvoiet In Genuuiy, etatedt

r REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
-££-
"It WILD the £lret tiae I bad wen Hitler

clos* at hftfld* Face and hoad of infer Lor
typa, croaa-breadj low receding forehead,
ti^ly noae* broad c-h&ekboneB, l i t t l e eye&*
dark hair. Expra«ftlon not of a man exer-
cising authority lu perfect eelf-conci&fid,
but of fafriog excitnertt. i t the Bod an
expression of satisfied egotism." (575)
A greet do&l has bean written about hi a eye* which have

been doacribed in terms of almost avery color of the ralciboir. Aa
a Pfttt*r of fsct, thj&j eaem to be rather a bright blue - bordering
on the violet* But i t i s not the color thigh, haa attracted people,
but rather tbeix depth aud a glint which meJcaa then appear to have
a bjpuotLe quality* One flActa Btorias l i t e tha following recur-
ring OTBT fiJtd over again in the literature, A policeman who ie
noted for hio antipathy to the Nazi movecent is sent to a Hitler
,• •eatiog to ntaintalu ordar- Khlle standing at his post Hitler enterst
"He gazed into tha pollca officer's eya with

that fatal hypaotifitrig and irreelptcible glare,
which nwept the poor officer right off hit
feet. Clicking to attention he confessed
to ne thie vorningi TSince last night I em
a National Socialist* H»il
369)
These atqrtefl are not a l l fr™ the Nassi propagnxida

agfttides* Tory r^liAble peoplet now In this countrj^ ham reported
similar iccidentB anoug their own pereonal acqualatancefi* Eveja
outstanding diplopate have coimented on the QAtura of his eys»
and tha way in which he ufleB them when meeting people, often with
there are others, like Bau^chnlngj who^flnd hi*

look fftoriag and daad - lacking in brllllanfle and tha mparkle
at gfluuintt anixatlon. (£67) We need not dw«ll an bis oyee
and their peculiar quality> how*T«r, dljtc* r e l a t i v e l y few
Germuia beT« cant k ouch elope contact with hi* that they
could be variously affected by them.

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ffltateror affect H i t l e r ' s personal appearance Bay
havti had on the Gera&n people in the past, i t i s safe to
assm* that thie hae bftaa greatly teaperad by nillionp of
posterc, padtfld in avery eonceivftbLe plac« r irhlch show the
Fuehrer ae & fairly good-looltiiig iudirldaftl with a vary determined
attitude. ID addition, th* pr«Bfl, na*fe-replB, etc*, ar« eoBtlou-
* l l j flooded with carefully prepared photographs ebowlAg Hitler
at h i s very beet* These have undoubtedly, in the course of time,
t lotted out any unfavorable impressions he Kay have created a a
a real person In the pant* The physical Hitler most German a know
now i s ft f a i r l y presentable individual.
The only other real contact the averwfcelnlfig Majority
of people h&v# had with Hitler i s through h i s TO1C«. Be ma A
t i r e l e s s speaker and before he cane to power would Sdaatlmp
giy* Efl maqy aa three or four flpeeches oa the &euw day, of ton
in different c i t i e d . Eên^his greatest oppopentE coucede that
he i s the greatest orator that Germany ha a erer known, Thiv
i s a great conceseion in view of t i e fact that the qualities
of hie TO ice are far froa pleasant - many, in faot, find i t
d i s t i n c t l y unpleasant. I t hatf a rasping quality which often
breaks into a shrill ffilsetto when he betakes aroused- WOT
1? i t hiB diction which Hakefthi* a gmat orator. In thtt early
d«ys this was particularly bad* I t wea a conglomeration of

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Cenuw with an taatrian dlalftct which TechuppUc (SIT)
describes AS a "Imoedliffe Sprach*'. HOT waa i t tfae structure
*f ilifl speeches which nftd« hlx A great orator. On the whole, hi*
speeches wen ftiafuUj l<w^g, badly atructured and very repetitious.
5™o of then are positively painful to read but DQT«rth«leBa, when

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he dftllTOrad th«P tluy had en extraordinary affect upon his
His power and fascloAtion in speBking lay aljnoet wholly
in hi a a b i l i t y to oense what a giTon audlanc* wanted to hoar And
then to Banipulate hie taeme In such & way that ha would arouse
the emotion* of th# croud. Strafifler eayff of t h i s talent:
"Ritler responds t o the vibration of the

bmian haart with the delicacy of a fleifi-
nagraph . . . *n«blin^ him, wltn a cu-talnty
with which no conacloue g i f t could endow hi",
to act AS a lauddpeaJcer proolsluing the
noot flBcret dteins, thft least
inetlnata, tha sufferings and
revolts of a whole nation. N
Bufore conlne to power almost a l l of h i s speach«n
cantared armtfid the following throe theneai (1) the treasoA of
the Hcivatiber criminals; (£) the rule of the Wandete n u t be
broken; and {3) the world domination of the J e w * No Batter
whet topio *ES advertipad for a given apAeeh he a l i o e t invariably
would wind up on one or Bora of tb*e& thrte themqfi^ And j e t
people lllcsd i t and would attend ens meeting after anothjef to
hear hla apeak. It wtis not, therefore, ao nueh what ha aald
tnat appealed to his audiences as how he paid i t .
Bnn. In the early fay* Hitler n e a showMan with a
Bens» for to* dr ana t i c . Hot only did he dohedvle aid

speeches late in tba etaning when hie audience would bo tired
and their resistance lowered through natural cauaea, but h*
would always asnd an aasieteJit ahead of t i w to Make a short
apepch aad warn the audience tip. Stom-troopeTB slimy s played
Bit important role at these nestlnga end would line the « i s l «
ttrough wiiich he would paefl* At the payeholoîcal ncofl&t,
Hltlar would appaar In the door in the bftcl^ of the hall- Tlfcea
with a u s l l group behind hln, be would narch through the rove
of S*JL* can to roac^ the Bp*aker'e table* He never ^l&noed t o
th« right or to the l e f t AB lie cans down tb* aisle and bactoft
Lf anyone tried to aecost him or hanperad hi*
Ibeaerer possible he would h«v* a band pr*aent and
they would etrike up a lirftly ndlitary narch as he ctma down
the a i s l e .
he began t o speak he usually manifested &igna '.
of DprroiieneaB. UnuQly he WBA uctable to eaj anything of
consequence until he had gotten the foftl of his audienct* OIL
on« occasion t Ueldon (499) reports, he wao so narvouA that, he ,
could think of nothing t o say* In order to do something he
picked up th& table utd moved i t around on the platform* Then
suddenly he got thv "feel* and waa able to go on. Price (£4l)
d hifi flpeaking i n the following wayt

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•The begioning i s slow and halting.
Gradually he warner up when the upiritual
ataospherA of the great crgwd i s eo£«Dd«r«
Fbr ha respond* to thi* netapihyîcal oon-
tact La mich A way that each siamber of the
nultitudft feols bound to h i * by an
link of
/
411 of our informant a report the alow a t a r t , witling for the
f e e l of the audience. As soon as he has found i t , the tampo
increase? in skooUi rhytlm and TOIUBB until he i s shouting at
the cllnax. Through a l l t h i s j the listener Beans to identify
himself with Hitler's voice 'which becomes the voice of toman;

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Tola is all in keeping with Hitler'a own conception

of BBBB psychology as given In MEIN £AUPF where h«
"The pfcyctae of the broad, matiaea doee not
respond to nDytljif^ weak: or half-va^*
Like A woDan, whope opirltual stnsit1To-
ne Ba ip determined laflfl by Abstract reason
thfin by an indefinable eaotiooal lonjlctg for
f u l f i l l i n g power and who, for that reason,
prefers to submit to the fltroB^f rather than
the weakling - the mabs, too, prefers the
ruler to a pleader- tt
And Hitler l e t them have i t * NBHSWEHt (S7£) reported:
"Women f a i n t , when, with face purpled

and contorted with e f f o r t , he blows
forth his magic oratory- 1
Planner (653) anyp;
"His oratory used to wilt M B collar,

unglua his forelock, f l a m bin eyas;
be iima l i t e & ban hypnotised, repeating
hiusalf into a frenzy.11
YoPlea-Brown (59£)t
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•Ue waa a nan traasfomsd and possessed,

fe were i s the presence of a niraolfl.11
This fiary oratory nap something new to the Germans and
particularly to the slav-toa£Usd f lower-claae B a w l a n s . In
Munich hie shouting and gesturing m r e a apectaole sen paid to
see (£16). I t WAS not only his fiery oratory 4 howaver, thet n n
the crowd 9 to hie cause* This was eertairdy some thing nfrw, but
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far nor« important was tba deriousuasB with which
ware spoken*
"fireryone of his words cones out
with a powerful current of energyj at
tinea i t aeeaa aa i f thay are tarn from
tbe very heart of the atftPr causing him
indescribable angulnh." {Fry, 577)
"Leaning from tile tribune* a a i f he were

trying to impel h i s inner aalf into the
consciousness of a l l tbepe thousanda,
ha was holding the masses and ne with
them iwdsr a hypnotle *pnll • • *• I t was
ales* that Bitl#r WHB feeling tha axalta-
tion of tbfl saotionftl raeponae now surging
up toward him * • * hie voice fifing t o
paaaionate clinaxeB * . * hlfl words wera
l i k e a aeourge* When he ptopjwd dpe&fcing
his ehast Wftfl fftlll hearing with emotion**
(Ludecko, 164)
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writers have commented upoa his nbility W hypnotize
* Stanley Eigh (4£fi)

"ffhoa, at the eli«wucj he e*Bye ffoa
side to th* otb#r his liatoners any with
hljHj when ha Icons forward thej also lean
forward and when he concludes tbaj either
are awed and s i l e n t or on their feat In
ad A apeak or, ha has bad a powerful
influence on the conmon run of Genum people* Kis mofltinga wera
alwajB crowded and by the time he got through speaking he had
completely numbed the c r i t i c a l faculties of oifi liutoners t o the
point where the/ were willing to believe almost anything he s a i d .
He flattered the* aad cajoled them. He hurled accusations at

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them one aoment and amused them the next by building Up straw
men which he pronptlj knocked down* lila tongue was like A
lash which whipped up tha ettotiona of his audience, And aooehow
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already sacratjy thinking but could not verb&lize. When the
audience began to respond, it affected hi* la return. Before
due to this reciprocal relationship, he and his audience
in boil c& ted with the emotional appeal of his oratory.
{Straaaer, 295)
It waa this Hitler that the German people knew at
first hand. Hitier, the fiery orator, who tirelessly ruahed
from one netting to anothert working hinself to the point of
exhaustion in their behalf* Hitler, win Be heart acd soul
la the Causa and who struggled euuHessly against oven
odds and obstacles to open their eyes to the true atate of
affaire. Hitler, who could arouse their emotiona and
the* toward £ goals of national aggrandizement, Ritler the
courageous, who dared to speak the truth and defy tha national
authorities as well &s the international oppressors. It was a
sincere Hitler that they knew, whose words burned into the most
secret raaeaass of their vinte and rabutod then for their own
shortcomings. It m a the Hitler who would lead them back to
self-respect because he had faith in than*
, This fundamental conception of Hitler nade a beautiful
foundation for a propaganda build-up* He wa* so convincing on
the speaker's platform and appeared to be so sincere in *hat he
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Bald that the majority of M e liat&nera ware ready to ballave

alnoat anything good about hin bectosa they wanted to believe it*
Tho Nazi propagandatganaias ware not slow in daklng the moat of
their gpportunltiea*
himself, had provided an excellent background

for a propaganda buUrii~up» Fron the oar lie at days of hie
political career he had steadfastly refused to divulge anything
about his personal l i f e , petit or present* To his Most itmediste
associates he was, in reality t a nan of mystery* There was DO
clearing away of unpleasant incidentP to be done before the
building-up process c&uld begin. In fact, the wore secrecy he
naintaitied about his peraon&l life the sore curious his followers
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bacace. This waa, indeed, fertile ground on which to build a

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nyth or legend*
The Nazi propaganda, machine dsvoted all i t s efforts to
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tha task of portraying Hitler as some thing extra-humm.

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he did vaa written up in euch a way that It portrayed hlo
character* If he does not eat neat, drink alcoholic beverages, or
snake, i t is not due to the fact that he h&P some kind of Inhibition
or does i t because be believe* it will improve hia health. Such
things are not wortl^ of the Fuehrer. He abstains fron these
he i s following the example of the great German, Richard
or bec&uaa he has discovered that i t increases his
and endurance to such a degree that he can give nuch n&re
of hiaSalT to tho creation of the dew German Reich*
Such abatineDce elao Indicates, accutlln^ to the propa-
ganda, that the Fuehrer is a person with tremendous will-power
and salf-îisoipl±nB, Hitler himself fostera thia concoptiou,
according to Banfatanglf who, ihfln pomeoQe asked him how h»
to giva up these ttii.-igs* repliedi flIt i s a »att#r at
* fill* Once I make up my mind m>t to ^ t thing, I just don't

do it* And one* that decision la made, i t is taken for always.
Is that ao wonderful?*
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The a a » Is true in the field of u x , AB far am the •

Garden people know he has no fl«c l i f s and this too Is clcthnd,
not ad en abnormality, but as n graat virtu*. The Fuehrer i s
above hiutan weaknesses of this a<?rt and Ton Wiegond (494) tells
U3 that b« rhas a profound coateapt for the T&akzwsa l a nen for
sex and the fools tlmt It vtaa of tbaza1. Hunfstanjjl
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that Hitler frequently nakea the atatAbant that he will
•Jirry a iswui since G&no&ny la hi8 only bride* Etoirtâr, Hitler
with hl& deep Insight Into hunan nature, approoiates these
wenknaaaas in others and Is tola rant of then* He does not BYW
condemn than or forbid them among his closest adeo?iat$a*

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tie 1B also portrayed in the propaganda ad the soul of
kindliness and generosity. Endless atori&P that Illustrate theaa .
virtues are found oner and O*BT again in the literature* Pric*
(E36) cites & typical example: an attractive young paaeant girl
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tries to approach hin but Is prevented from doing so by the

guarda* She burst a into tears and Hitler, fleeing her distress,
inquires into tba cause* She t e l l s hln that her f lanca had baen
expelled fran Austria for his tfazi principled and that he cannot
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find work and consequently they cannot get narried, . Hitler is

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deeply touched. Be pEromifies to find the young a*o a Job and, la
Addition, completely furnishes A flat for then to 11 v? in, aven
down to a bab/'e cot* Every attanpt i? node to pro Bant him aa
extremely ausan, with a deep reeling for the problema of ordinary people t
A great many writers, both Baal and aoti-Kazi,

written extensively about hitf great love for children and ths
Nazi proas ia certainly full of pictures showing Hitler in the
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coupanj of l i t t l e tote* It La alleged that wh&n he Is at

n he always hap the children from tha neighborhood
bin In the afternoon and that he served then candyt Ice .
, aake, ete* Fhajre (££5) «Ayvt "K*for wafl thsra a ciddlo-
afi«d baahelor nho so daligljted in the c«ap«ny of childraa"*
Fritifisas Olga reported that whan ahe vial ted Hitler In Berlin
and the topic of childrep qara Up during tie COBmerflntion, Hitler'**
v
vjea filled with tuar&t The Mdai proa? had taede ertrewely good
use of this and endlaOS stories accompany the pictured, Likewise,
a great deal ia written about his fondneflA for auLbalSj partic-
ularly doga+ Here again, there are uuuberleas pictures to prove
it id so* Aa far as doga ana floncamai, the propaganda ie
prohably fairly near the truth but i t goaa far beyond that point
other respects. One writer area vent so far aa to attribute
vagBtnrianlau to his inability to tolerate the thought of
aninals being slaughtered for huban cojiTumptioa (405)*
ia pictured as an "affable lord of the manor™, f a l l of
klndljjaeas and helpfulness t or, ae Oechaoer puta Ltr ho la
Great Comforter - father, hu&bandj brother or SOD to eT*ry German
who lackfl or bad lost such a relative (668).
Another trait which had receive a great deal of
consent In tfoft propaganda buJQd-up i s Hitler* • mode$ty and
His Bucaeaaes hava n»ver gone to his head. At
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"bottom he in s t i l l the sinple soul he vn,& ihen he founded
Party and h i s greatest joy Is to be considered as "one of the
As proof of this they point to the fact that he has
8ought A crown, that hs never appears in gaudy uniforms
or doe a n. great dflal of en tort o In ing* Even after he came to
power be continued to mer h i s old trench coat and slouch hat
for H tine and whan he donned a uniform i t was always tbat of
ft simple BtarB-troop^r. fctuch «*a written about his, foudnaaa
far v i s i t s from early aoqu&intimcos And hew he loved to s i t
down In the uldst of h i s busy day in order to taUc over old
There « » r e a l l y nothing he lilted better than to
his old haunt a and meet old friends while ha wafl in

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Munich, OT to take part In -their feat!Titles* At heart he
was s t i l l A morksr and hia inter eats were always with the
working clasees with whom he f e l t thoroughly at h o » *
Hitler i s also a ran of incredible energy and
enduranca* His day consists of sixteen ajid eighteen hours of
•aftinterrupted work* He i s absolutely t i r e l e s s when i t comes
to working for Genwmy and i t s future welfare and no personal

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pLanauraa are pemitt*d to interfere with the carrying out of
h i s aisalon* The ordinary rafin in the atreot cannot imagine
a hunan balnf in Hitler 1 9 position not taking adTmitage of
his opportunity. Ha can only l u g i n e hl*A»lf i n the sail*
position retailing in luxuries *M yvt tore i s Hitler who
acorns thm a l l . Hie onX/ conclusion U that Hitler i s not

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an ordinary aortftl* Phillip o (868) report* the ease of a

h
i young Nazi wno once confided to hint I would die for Hitler,
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but I would not change places with Hitier, At least when I

wake every naming I can aay, 'Bail Hltlarl 1 , but this man,
he has no fun in l i f e . Ho sjooltlng, no drirJcing, no women 1 -
only work, until he falla atlnp at night 1*
A great deal la nade of Hitler's determination. It
i s pointed out over and over again that ha nevar givea up once
he has made up his Blind to attain a particular goal* Ho natter
• how rough the road, he plods along in unnerving determination.
Evan though he receires serious set-backa and the situation
Appears to be hopeless, he never loses faith and always gets
what he ôea after* He refuses to be coerced into compromises

of any sort and la always ready to aaouae the full responsibility
•
for his actions. The greet trials and tribulations through which
tha Party had to. pass oa i t s way to power are cited over and over
again and all the credit i s given to Hitler and hie fanatical
•
faith in the future. Even his refusal to permit ordinary scruples

to get in his way i s given as a sign of hia groatboee. The fact
that he did not aonwunXcato with tin fajnilj for over ten years
dm
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becoaea a great virtue alnce It meant a severe deprivation to

the young urn who m i determined to maJce something of hlaeelf
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before he returned hone L *

A great deal of publicity hae also been given $Q his
breadth of viaion, ability to penetrate the future and bis
ability to organise both the Party and the country in preparation
f for obstacle* they will have to ova re one* According to th*
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propagandists, Hltlar ifi tha aoul of efficiency and has an

)
extraordinary power of resolving c o n f l i c t s and simpllf/inff
problaas which have stumped a l l experts let the past* In f a c t ,

•
his Infallibility and incorruptibility throughout are not only

Implied but openly stated In no uncertain terms*
He iSr also a person of great patisnee who would never
r 'h
s p i l l a drop of human blood i f i t could possibly bo avoided.
O w aud over a£ain on* hears of hi $ grant patienc& with the
tieaocraclefi, with CsachoalovaJtla and with Poland + But
aft in his priT?ito l i f e r he nev&T lose a control of his
FundEunentttlly, he i s a nan of paacfl who desires nothing quite 3d
much as to be l e f t alone to work out the das tin/ of Germany in
a quiat and constructive nann*r. For he i s a builder at heart
and au a r t i s t , aod theaa proT« that the creative and constructive
elements in hie nature are predominant*
This does not naan, hawBTor, that he Iff a toward. On
the contrary, he i s * person of outstandlr^ couragft- His way
of l i f e i* proof of thia, as well #a hifl anYiable record during
the l a s t war, A great many stories about h i s daeoretlona for
bravery htrtv, been circulated and particularly for hi* outfltandljis
heroism whffn he was awarded the Iron Crosa firatH3lftss# Th»
f a c t that ths stori*B of hia perfomanca vary from on* t l J » to
another does not e*en to disturb tha people In the l e a s t -

i
PundaiwntcLUjj according to the Natl presit, Hitler ie
a nan of steel* Ho U n i l aware of h i s oiflflion and DO eaoiant
of permission, coercion, flaoririces or unpleasant duties can

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persuade hit t o alter hi a course. In the face of a l l sorts
/t D
of dioaatftra and dieagrseabl* happenings and necessary raeaauras,
he neT&r lo&es hid uerve for a moment, But he ifi not hard
human q u a l i t i e s . He places loyalty and justice as the two of
the greatest virtues And obsorvaa then with scrupulous
Loyalty neana ao mich to his that the inscription orer his door
at Berchteagadan rsada, "belae £hre heldst Trau» n . He is the
acne of Gemtm honor and purity; the Resurreotor of the German

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family and home. He is the greatest arcbltsct of a l l time; the
greateat rtilitary genius In a l l history. He has An inexhaustible
fount of knowledge. He ie a man of action and the creator of
new Bod.il values. He I* ibda«d t according to the Kasi propa-
burosuy a paramount of a l l rlrtuaa, A few typical axanplaB
lHuatreto the exteat to which they are carried in their
preiiae of hinu
"ZunrLoehst Hitler sebsti Hitler ia dar Mann
ohne EouproulflB* Tor Allen kennt er kelson
a i t flicht pelbat* Er bat elaen
Gedankent der ihn l e i t e t i Deutschland
Eurichten* THiBt Idee Terdraengt
a l l e a un ihn, Er kennt kain FriTmtlahea. &-
kannt Fasiliniilaben ebansowenlg, wi* er ela
Lasted? kanbt# Er 1st di# VarkQ«rpemin£
nationalen Villvns.
"Die Hittersobaft elnea heiligan Zielao,
keln Heusfrh hceher a taken kannt
laodt * « • Hitler * * * uaborraoht (durch)
vanae LLaheanrturdigkeiti Uwbor dl#
tmd Kraft, d i e bainahe phyalach von dies em
ausatrftht, Han waechat in er Haeh# dieaeo
Uebschan . 4 « Via or auf alia Dlnga raaglertL
» 4 , EiBern warden d i e Zuege uul dia fort*
fallen vie Bain . * . Dar kladslache Kmpt,
• I t d*» Hi tier und ealna ua den FXiehrer
Mitarbalter lhre Sendung nvhnen,
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bat in dor Geachicht* dieser Jelt nur

FaralaUm*11 Cafloh-Jochb*rgt Adolph Hitler
und » i n Stab, 1935- (BSl)
•• * • such in den private Dingen dea
Torblldlichkelt u?id meDBChllche Qroease . * .
ob Hitler i '• • lurtraust wird; TOD jubeloden
•Zumf d*r StraHflannrbeitetf, od«r aufgvwuehlt
erechuettart an Lager saine eraordBtftn
Ptebt, imaer 1st ud ihn dlase Hoheit
Ulld tiafato Menechllchjteit , * .
zigai-tlên PeraaQtiliohlMit • * * eln
und gut«r Uenaeh. Hitler iat *
Gelst. Efl iat unaoagllcli d*r Uautiigfaltigkfrlt
AfllDBft lieflfttia mit 100 Aufnahaan gereeht zu
irerdfln. Auch fiuf diesen beldati C«blaton
(Architecture and Hletoiy) i a t Hitlar sine
Autorltaet. Uneer
a vialleicht
, fiber wird ihn nicht In
Tisf wTfleagan koeoaen.11 Hoffman: Httlar, wifl
Ihn lcslner kannt, 19 5E (863)
^Hitler i s a modeet man - and ths world
EiodflBt Dflen* Therefore the people love him,
Hk« flTery good lâiiar, hfl nuet bo on
followsr. Be inakoa bimaelf the humblest
of hinsslf t tlia flovwfret of all
with himself, In Tact, Hitler
ip a sibddrn uonk, iriUi ths thr«o knot? of
Povart/, ChaflUty jmd Obedience tied ih hio
invisible girdle, A zealot among zealots. . He
eate no aeftt, drinks bo irjLne, does not eaoke.
I an told he takes for himself no aalaiy but
livafl prlflataly ft-on the iocone of his book,
"Uein Kaapf1 * . .Surplus funds he turns back
to the S.A* ffia w&rk day coneiats of eighteen
hours, uflualljr, and ha of tea falls asleep in
th& last hour of his work. There bare been
Tpvt woufttt in hi a l i f e - but only to help bin
along with Mirricff and annoy . . • Ha once
^*T* a Iftotwe at Barrautk on Wagner aul
" Deutsche Lieder" that astounded the nusical
critics and revealed hla as a nmaicel scholar
of partc - • * £h*er opportunlflii nev^r lured
hiu ifl nufih ae the opportunity to preach bis
doctritwa. His quality is Jtasdiauicj bla
Hpirltual trend i s ascetici hl,s r*actlon id
•ediaval • * ." Phlllipfl* Germany Today
and Tonorrow. (8&B)
HXtl#r not only knows About a l l these writings but

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einca b has always been ttw guiding spirit in all Gernan

propaganda and usually plans the broad linos that am to ba
followed» i t is safe to assume that he binflelf 1B
for the instigation and davalopnaat of thle Mj"thical person-
ality* When we look back over the deTalopuent of this build-up
we can flew clearly that Hitler, fron the wry beginning, planned
on making hianLf a ny-tholflgical figure* Ha opens VELft £AUPF
the following
•In this l l t t l * town on the rivttr Inn,
Bavarian by blood and Austrian by
natiomtlit?, eQd*d by the light of
Germftn nartjrdM, there llrad,. at the
aod Qt tbt r30'p of the last century, ty
thfl father a faithftil CITII
the bother devoting hersalf to
the caraa of thu- hoiuahold and looking
after her children with eternuJLLy tho
loving k
This ie the classic way of beginaing A faljry t*l# rather than a ,

»rious autobiography or a political treatise* In the very first
fl«nteuce of the book be Implies that Fate wa» already smiling an
his at the tins of hla birtb p for i t raadat
•Today I consider • i t my good
that Fate daftignated Brnmnait Od
Inn AB tli« place of *y birth. *
As Boon a* Hitler cow to power new weapon* for aelf-
enaat waft put into Uia hand a of th* ppopagaodiets and
thAj s«d« good ufi« of thu* TMAaploynant dropped off raptcll/,
roadfl that tha GeroanB nimr dxvaaed of aprung up 07»r night,
Dew and lapoaing buildings were erected with astounding rapidity.
The face *t Germany was being lifted at an incredlbla speed.

Hitler wna keeping hid promised} ha was accomplishing thtt
J , r >•
impossible. Erery ffuacesg in diplomacy, every aoaial reform

waff heraldad as wortf-ahaklng la itP importance* And for each
tf Hitler modestly accepted all the credit* It wan
Hitler that did this, and Hitler who did that, provided
iota were apactaoular and met with the approval of the
i
public If thsy happened to meet with disapproval, It

one of hifl assistants who n s to blame, K?«y
made to cultivate the attitude that Hitler waa infallible
and waa carrying through hifl miflpioji of saying .Gemaay*
It WHS not lonff before the German people weia prepared
to take the short fltep of seetitff Hitler, not aa a man, hut aa a
of Gflrm&ny. Public neetiDgs and particularly the
toot on a religious atmosphere* All tha stagings ware
to create a eupernsturftl and religious attitude and
entry was more befitting a god than e man. In Berlin
one of the large axt shops on Hater dan Linden exhibited a
large portrait of Eltlffr in the center of i t e display wlndo**
Hitler's portrait was entirely surrounded as though by « halo,
with variou* copies of a painting of Christ (High, 453)* ffotafl
appeared ifl the prasfl to the effect that, "Ala er aprach, hoerte
man den Uantal Gattw duroh d«i 6nal rauecbeol* .Zieaar raportn
that on the aide of a hUU in Gdenwald, conepicuoup a» a
waterfall, painted on white oanfas ware to* bliolc
•I* belleY* in Holy Germany
Hoiy Germany lfl HitlerI
Wa bftlleTe in Holy EiUerU" (765)
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Roberts rftportfl:
"In Munich in the early autuun or 1936

I Aav colored pictures of Hitler in the
Actual flilver g u w n t * of the Knights
of the Grail; .but thofla were. «oon with-
drawn, Th#7 ge*i9 the show away? they
ware too near the truth of Hitler 1 ja
mentality." (976)
Te*llj]£ (565) wrltae that at the Mumburg Waal Party Rally in
September, 1937, there ma a huge photograph of Hitler underneath
which was the inscription, "In the beg Inning WHS the Word • * ."•
He aleo says that the Ueyor of Hetmbiirg BSEiured hi», "We n**d no
priast or p&raona* We cotuminlcate direct with God thr&ugh
Adolph Hitler. He h&s mnQy Chriflt^lLke qualltiaa." Soon
wsre introduavd by o f f i c i a l c i r c l e s * Rauflchning
that the ?&rty h&s adopted thia creedi
a l l * glautea auf disser Erdv an

Hitler, un&eran Fuehrer, und
wir bekean«nf daflfi der Nntional-
sozi&ll emus der a l l e i n aellgpiach*Djle
Gl&ube ftoer uasar VoUc 1 s t . "
A Rhsuieh group of OernoA "Christians" i n April, 1957,
t h i s resolution *
"Hitler'e word Is God's law, the decrees

and lawfl wfaich represent i t possess
diwlna authoritj," (660)
And Relchdninister for Chorch Affaira > Uaue Kexrl, aftye:
"Tiler* has ariflen a new mitliorlty as to

what Christ and Christianity really are -
that ifl Molph Hitler • Adolph Bitler * , ,
i s the truo Holy Gbont*1' {749) -1
' . i i
This i s tha way Hitler hopes to pave hla path to i a -
aartnllty^ I t has beoo carefully planned and consistently
#necuted In a step by stap fadtiion. The Hitler the Geraan

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know i s fundaaentH-iPy the fiery water who faeclnatad then

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and thia has gradually been embroidered by thft propaganda until
he in now presented to tlwu a i t full-fledged deity* J&7arytttiog
else i s carefully concealed fr™ than as a whols. How many
GersEnfl believe i t we do not ksow4 Somar certainly,
i t wiiolaheartwily* Dorothy Thompson writes of duoh a
"it Garulpch I not an Aiu&ricsja

Chicago* He had bean at GberAiUN&r£&u,
at the Paj3ai.Qn Play. 'Tbaae people
ore a l l cre^y,* he said. 'Thia i s not
a revolution, i t 1 s a revival• They think
Etitlar i s God. Believe i t or not, a
forum woman aat next to *B at the Pa e si on
Flay and when the hoisted. J"GBUH on the
CroBfl, she Bald, rThare ha i a . That
our Fuehrer, our Hitler, 1 And whoa
paid out the thirty piece a of silver to
Judafl, eha flaldt 'That i s Roehm, who
betrayed th# Leader*1" (668)
cases of t h i s kind Are probably not v*ry Dimerous but i t
would be ana ting i f ft eunll degree of the saaa type of thinking
had not daeped into the pictttxB of Hitler which aany Germana
—
REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES '
PAJiT H I
HltLiBA AS uIS A5*iXUi h i& KhCW lllii

The pioturo tho Naai propaânrfii urchins has painted of

i
i i i t l e r gartajnly sftcnfls l i k e a^ extravagant ona* ijên if v/a i g -
nore the diifyin-; olnrventa, i t so*ms like the fantasy of a. 3
man - tha TirainounL of a l l v i r t u e s , iftfcraordinary as i t flay
hce.vevorj t h e r i fliM tl.nes i t which he dpttrorimatfl^ such a personality
and v.'ins tho respect aix! ad^LirAtion of i l l h i s &£ca&J4t05*

r
At such tiirje^ ho is ft varitabla damou i'or wont
for ôTorol dai-s OIL out! vJLti l i t t l e c r nn :;laop» [Its
of concentration aro fl-itrftordi 11(117/ atid In? i s abla to.
. complex problem and r*ducg t?ion t o a for1; simply, fac-
trt;hs* iiy pridos himself o.i tliis tolorrt UIJ^ has 3aid t o
W
I have thtt g i f t of roduci;)^ a l l problems
t o t h e i r s i m p l e s t fourtdatirtjne • . * A g i f t
t r a c i n g bacli a l l Wioorios t o tSieir
t s ir; r e a l i t y * " • -
And f;o roal 1/ has, i t * Unonc'jrnbar^-tt with- a b s t r a c t theories s r t r a -

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ditio.iftl p o i n t s ft
t' vi«* *nd riêjuiicoc ha i s abl^ t o Look a t oom-
plax problf>ni8 in a r*.t!i&r rniivo wîy nnd nioir o»t thfl tM>st saliont
and significant olevents irwl apply th^rn t o tho present s i t u a t i o n in
0. f a i r l y simple CJKJ rrorkatilfl manner/ fo" l» s u r o , he navar sdras
e n t i r e pro^loifl in tikis way but only tho tiuman Ei logouts iinvolved*
Since t h i s i s the port which irttorosts hjUn most ssid produces i

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ato r e s u l t s , i t has beon ratwl vary higily and has ân tsio ad miration
of his uloso associates fx-on tJio oftrli^st days ctf his political ca-
During i-rhesia pQLiT<l6 of a c t i v i t y is wtiolly con-
by trie task co:ifrctitir.g htm* ijo ims pDir»r of con-

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c ant rut ion. Efis jmJ^.ioirits &ro quick arriilflcis^vfl. ;o i s

•
fciont to gflt tnin£&'dofiG and expects evoryono t o apply iii.n
vdî an 3rd or auufcL t o Ms own* It4* tharafoiro, demands groat

î from h i s assotiatas*
At s-.ich t tract, ho^flVflr, ha i s ol so very hurnaii - it* s
an unusual do~rflr of consixlerateness t a v a r d j tiiym and a c e r t a i n
tolerance of fchnir i,vaiiktas.3ft5» '.fnun ho"t;al^s a Ji.alt for T
w i l l not «B± u n t i l h i s w t i r e staff ims bean ssrved.^ "Hien an
overtealous serrftrt^: i n s i s t s on sorvin;: h i ^ before otJ-ars fie w i l l
oftvn ôt un'nnd tftJro the plato ovpr t o 0.10 of his lo?.rly a 3 s i stin
i.if; a l l of tliis !»3 5s i - tiia twst of s p i r i t s and Jofcê v;ith .
around hiiu.
J!o has art extrdonJlnary »(ie:iory juid comtinuonaiy r e c a l l s

1
^; inoidcjntc fro^ tho past livor of thoaa around him. i'hflâ
t a i l s to M s al&ff a t Iftrg^' lie i s an excellent mi hie tinl of-
ton ploys out thft r o i o o f tT;a lrrfividyil involved to thr* ^

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of tJte stnff Hiiiln the individ^'tl nu:^ a i t bj nn\l
much to tiis PI'JTI •i:nhnn'A5¥:nflfltf J.evorthyl^ss !io ie
that tho tâJirer should sin^lo him ouif mid re

him ntyl h i s actions in SAICII d e t a i l * D u r i ^ t-tceo
r i s also tho soul of kindl inosg.-.jvl jQôrosifcy • Ho nets n
n, \?ifrr orct-Lflpir io his staf ti nin as n lâehvoi' and lanaj-cs to
J|
to aaflh .id a very 0^0 of thom*
•1
jititji uml#t'nenthj" ho is pvory Uic-h tiio f\io»ii*tor - .49 displco/s
courage and d 5 tor mi n Fit 5 on» Ha siiowu A ^voab doftl of
dl i s w i l l i n g to" asr.u-.ita f u l l resp.onsiWlity for the wis-

r
i; of t h e course ê 3ias napinvi out*. !i'* l a vary parsuaaivo and i s
a to* iruistar art<l orftaniio ^ i s psoplft into a_*> o f f i c i a n t
unit. Pol's o r a l f r i c t i o n s d i c a n p g p r , f o r t h e tiraa being,
find fivtary.^dy ::as -jut A s i l g l o t h o u ^ t i-: rtind : To (Jo what tke
\:Q vnprks '.vith "T'ontwrtoinliy urA iiacui'ity and
to inî thu sitMatitin ontir ly in hflnd* A13 kin;l8 or

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uro£ j'oUvttti:,. to -Jio ti-oblflm ilow I'm : nim without tho slijjht-
h e s i t a t i o n or g fort, much- to t^jo ^lasorionU of tiioa* about
hi™. i[« enn citfl the tonnnfes of ahips ^ v a r i o u s na.vt#&t

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"iia t^ftTs e ^ c t l y ivimt kind of
tho Hr.d of annpr platan* the vr
s[J5#l flji'l th a numta*' oT tho crcr.v of
ship in tho iritisit Navy. \\% knowG t h e
of rotations of îrplianfl motors in
i-y model «si(i type <îsto.it* ij
of siiott a ]nachino JTUH fir^s a * .,
H; ia a lipjht*'«iodiuci or
^J -.v'Otiior i t ^fflf; âus in the Uni-
iJLoteSj Czecho^Klovakin or
(iiussall, 7^7)
Thoilj to'o t his stuff :in- lgnrnod from past
:On i i i t l a r i s i:i ono oi" titeê ino'ds ]io •nppi"oc|ri]riato& i n f a l l i -
particulai"ly wtiati tho supfiort of tiio psorilo -is needed to

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through thw projact, o1; which he Ii »n£a&ad« This may 5«em
in um/iftiTantod stateinatit- but, if O'jr st'Jtty i3 t<i ba comjjleto,

•
imist ApprFiiBO })is stron^thi &:s vr^ll as ills wftnJcno5ôuh It tan
suaresly t? c3^ni»d that iit> Imc .lov^ e^traorfinary a b i l i t i e s r/h
tH& psycfiilogy flf the av*rafiQ nan is torioonied* :;*? hiaa bsen
in some mannar or otii^rj to un'oartli und upply succ«Hi;fully
factors p'jrfcainiuft Co group rsychoJogji fc?-* impoi'tance of wh
has not njeon goner^lly roco^niied and some of -.vliich ô miît

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to Cood Then- iff)it b« briefly as
(1) ftill TI of tho i^p of the "
i n tha Hitlor "las this very ".T
in
V » Ifior* of !. .o.'.-l^liji «:' <ii i.'&e

forces oT j . - i ^ . t ft JJ'I.MS i:*3 S;o -ut
; oval upit ion of t h # i t p o r t n o e o of tk-a £ r
nassff^ of. tlie pooplft; f r o p t h i o r e s u l t s Wia
t y intern^b i;-: i:;*^ ^ c ; ;1 ]:!4Stl9.ij t h e '1 f*
r i ^ ooii r -ui.•.; o," !;,o jffil of* ii'ie :.itJon's
ri of tno inestimable oT
support of youth; rQtliaatift.T of the i : sfl momentum f;ivun n s o -
oi*»J novohwnt by ttyo wild forvoi1 a:-(i iftsm of young peoplo as
-.roll nî tn9 Liportftnee of oarly t r wid iridifttrination*
in rg, a j ;
of tê fact t'lftt fch<» ol" tfia -uisae" &&• a
whole iiave muriy for.inir.<] c:mrfte.tj&r.itetiâ* A us j ha
"Do ^flit knew tho rt'ajinnci ^t A c i r o u i i s just

Ilka ft wonuin (Difl I'.&zse, dac Volk i s v.io eifi
V.'oib)* Somoone who do*s not surf or stand tfia
i n t r i n s i o l y foininiino c-i^roctqr of tiio losses
viill naves- ba an offsetive £j)er;-ioi-. Ask your-
l ft doi^,L- i --v-omaii ftcpoct frflm ft man?f
îocisioiij po'.ver anrl notion* "Hiat
7/c wa»it i s to jjoe thh :âssos to aot» Liio- a
j tha .iflii.ses fluctuate '.otw&cn gxtraiwe
Tho 'croud i s not only lika « wojeara, but
iu're t h e ôst imjiot'tjnnt otsrvont in
an ojdionco* "i'ho «OLICH U snaljy lftad, th«n fol
low tho oli .i"ld ran -ruuJ ftt l a s t t whwn 1 navo1 .ul*-
" ] over tho îol« f*f-JLty - follo-.v tho
In r Kiliff, ho writes t
"The psopilflj in an o
co faminino in t h a i r iioturo cud a t t i t u d e that
t h e i r flotivltios nndl thoughts an) m
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less by ^ c^r,siioration than by fool*

( )
(4) The ft. i l i t y to f g s l , idontify with a»d -^xpross in
inûnj-s the dewp^t noed3 mi: aonti™::t£ of thy avor
Gorûiui ^snd to fpresent o-TaportunittHii w posîlflii-i "i-.: for t
Capacity to apiie^l co t!io du
as thn moct ideal i!iolinatio;is i : Tnan, t o ?ir(M3o ths basost i n -

|n
s t i n c t s pjifi /flt cloak Wêw v;ith noSiility, Justifj'intt Jl act LOT:3
as necuLj to tns atcnintc.ont of rm irf i d coal* Ijitlor roalir.oii t h a t
wil] not cojiib-itiM -ritid d'.xJioaLfl tîeirisalvas, to a ao :r
this pun;o&a be ;-n idoFil yn'j o*ip?,bl9 of survival beyond
t h o i r gonortition. -ia hns al*o percoivsci tlât aJt^txt^h man will
ortl.V for an idflttl tkui r .continual aast n.jid -aiterpsiae con b» main
tnina'l rtnly b/ !\ nn mnssi n-n fif mrn> imin^fiio fc^ r.lv| fourthly
tiona. r "
(G) i: of tho faot tM*xb tiio a l a as
TOJ' ideology i^ ncliticni rtotion as ar«

for dftily wfqicn ftooo not; isiV thi,i fi
tiftl hunger i/i ; fl:; will :iol>i sup-

port ami Ls to
utiicLi dc9s Jiftt snriji^ JC-1frnot firm

fonndnbion will bo hostitating ar«
I t latks jtho s t a b i l i t y '.tfiiGh
crnly r e s t on a funatical viffa of Ufa* (UK
attempt at fighting a viffiv of l i f e by

of £orce wil] fiiidlly f n i l , unl^4& tha
fx&ainst-it ;oprffS8iit3 t h e foin of ad
a!;L.ao!; foi" thio jute of a no1.-; r>i>iritual d i r e c -
tion* Only in'tfty atru-^la of fe/o viai*s of
l i f o witli oa^Jf ntiiar G&rt tfio waînon of
force, iitia^ co tinn&usly.tt^T r«tnlossly>
about fcho deoiyion in favor of i-ha side t t sup
pose* 11 (iiK ^
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{7) riio a b i l i t y t o jvjrtrny conflicting TIUTMUI !'
vivid, concrete I agery Li tat is oYiiiK to
ordinary i::aa, /his c":i:es Aav:n to tits use of :nuta.phor& in

i
f o m of Lîagsi'/ v^Lich, as ArIstot la has said , is t!h.fi ::t
foi"O8 on ar»rth«
rhs faculty of o:i t".o braditicr.s of
fl EL:id t>y r^fflrcnc^ to ths ^-eat
û fleopost unco -acinus or.-otifl:is of
Tho f w t tâh t!na iircoi.scioua ^nind i a cifffe intunselj' afrectal by
the ft root e t e r n a l oy^vflls -^^L-1 tiioiiios i^ sict £tsiwrally uniorstood
] writers,
{0} iloftlization that flnthusiasfcitt nolitioal iistion
;iot nla«" if tSo onotions arc not. donply i

V (10) wi llliwrnasfi, nimrifc d e s i r e ,
s to
o:1 spiritual values*
(11) iioftliBation or tli& l..i(iort'inoe or artistry snd
e intoi;sity in Rordaotinj; Inrco neotin^c, r a l l i e s "Hid
tivalt* TMs i/rvolves siot only sn &• preaLation oi* vrfict tho nr
. t i s t - tlsf? L/rifcor, inusici^n anri r a i n t s r - con accompli-^'i in

i
it&y oT evoking sniotio^ftl i-'J^ponso:: i*it ^1 BO :i-io Vtri<ler*
tion of M:o naR-.fiij-.ity of hia p1 !~tioipAtlon in tViS t o t a l

of
as cliioi 1 clinratt&r »!rtd iiero. i i i t l o r h-i:; baoo^w
all a r t s of i;i3 own Tohy in ovamsnt for a
(1E7) thi well:
•
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£i:b r>] 5; s upon lia-

as hi slowd:' vr^lksi v;i rou^h tho •sall
looking to vi^lit or Icsfb, ti is ri!:!it
raised in s a l u t e , his 1 :ft :J arnl a t
Sr hi ;
t!o over s.tfla:; - i t
this n;ooos:tion of
* iJgKind Kim
n r e -xis a socrot Ji^rvice
li;r; ILi uro
"Uy the t i ^ a jiitioi" •:*= toaâtl b:.e rosttiim,

fl5 hnY(i baan :^n vrcyrkod upon t h ' i t
ready to d& his will****"
koon «• TM-ocifttion o f 1;h a Tal IQ ol"
t»u tiattrvjr love Is of thn fi . In iiponicinf; t o iEanfstaofi£l on
tiii's TJoinlr ^.fl one* ustjd tho folltf.rini; ri^.trn oi' speech:
M
fiiei"& 5 fj <i-l^y SC EILUCIL rooin in n ftriirL, 50
mjudt tflill SJIJIOO* as i t .ôro, nnti JT you
furTiisii i t vfivfi ;/our sloânG, t}io opposi-
tion has no filaco to ait up any p i c t u r e s
l a t e r Din :^causu tlio ajwirtmoni Of t h s
• train i s ulroady ct-Têd with your f u r n i -
t *. f t l
;:jinfataen^l di S i t 1 i t l
adi
./s ad:siri:l tTm uart Llia Catholic
lâsis fliifl ;i(ts t r i a d t o i m i t a t e
it,
•
Uanlisotion ol" n fu lonolinoss (knd
iui; of isolation in poojil i living uuH^r ^.i?Ji;r!i O;riitioji

h
orrtifi"it[' t o "bolorit;" to an âtiva firoiip which c^rcios * cortiin s t a -
tus, sro/ide^ ccjlia&ivrta*:t3 ntid / i v a s L o i/Kiivi^tal ^1 t'oollnj1: of
d of ifaL.w iic a
(14)
v/hicTi v;ith ninth
political
(15) a b i l i t y to 'sTirroynd h i r s o l f v. i^h ri sri n
ol ft group oT dovoted aidurj yji]ose fcal^.mts
his aim*
{• •

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(K>) AppFocinr, -a* of w : nîirtf; cfvifidence from tha
" aliow of -if i'ioie scy w i t h i n Oho o r g a n i z a t i o n and G o v "
ar - o îlready in t h e
f •
l o c a l w.-.reuousau when X're îis c otir.gr flin^ tJia d a t e of
i"1 .iut,!o^ i-,'? ;!^ t : isy coulrl be diakri-titofl i.i":i«li
atal,y tîe dnte I s set Cor l ueoiki miead. i n ordor Co c r o a t a
an i |ir«3sio:j of ^ -officioôy m d K I L i:ris Cinfidoncfl of t^Le•
p*ioplo» iSvery n: Tort in m\da t o airoi'l j^rUfirtf-; n p r q n i s e w'-ich
iiOu bo f u l f i l l e d ? t i^rooiBoVv tr;o up: ointoti tima*
(17) A^pi"QcifltiOJi of Unj itii>o:'ti.:t rfllfl plo^yeil ^ l i t
77-L t r i y -av irT-J-?•.• I H " « o f n in
F u l l roco^îfc ion of t h o f i c t tiiat t h o
Inp; na.io :pi !..v of t h e poo pin •.-.••".ut to ha led m\i ai'-a [•only find.
t o s-lii^t i f tEio loader ta.-: wi:i bijfrir raspoct
h i t l o r !iai by.»n vory sut^3yf:jl in thi3 cos poet twcuuso hy h a s
bs-in i b l > to QO!]Vinoe Sîs followers of | i i s ^^^ so If -con V id on co
o a srksiojiG t ! ; n t :i
t;te inpr^csion of iNfÂ 1 libt l i t y *•
(1&) Ttii^ ivas lLirjielj ""saibls brrcausa ho i s neturally

i
a taoticnl ^niusi îs tiîr^ of docieionfl and actions Ins

i •
As l'hyanon :iuts i t !
"3oi!(ieti.-9fi «i:; int^liiôôo iy aaôr.ishin^..

"»• miraculous ôlitlc^l i n t \ i i t i o n f j^Tvold of
"' a l l rnornl s^n^^, tw^; flxti"iiordir'iai"il^
oiso* t^rttn i.i n irer^ conplox s i t u s t
discerns -mM\t It possible aLid v/h at i a
(£0) i r^] $tron£nat point i s , porhfti^s, h i s firm 1»-
in :•.-.-; rji and, in public, the oojnpleto dfidication of his

-co-
lifo to i t s ft:lfillFient+ It \s tho s^*otAi:li of a. jnin whoso con-
victions are -so strong that ha sucrificea riiMsell' for Iho cause
t
ii to Anil is able ô arouso siiailur convictions in
b--&a Lo folio 1 :; h i s dxus^ple* TKiri dsinairts a
"On 1.7 ^ a t o m of ^ 5fln i;urn

of ^ j twt t h i s p
n vnly be roused b/ u rrsvi who
it
(Kl) EJ-Qftl-sohas the a b i l i t y I* npjvjal lo and
L
tha synpatiietic c;t?ntarn and protôiivouos:; or his pgorle* t o rop-
i1 ft3 t'ne bsfirain ol' b3ieir iurd-îfts tTitl tlioii' f u t u r e ,

With bhn raûlt tiint :m IJ aira to individual5
muny, py rticnTl-rl,/ '-iô wQ'n$;i, fâl tsnciorly suifl conpa salon A
him- T-oy mi$t FihTiys i>a caroful not to i n f l i c t undue an
• t i t l w 1 s a b i l i t y to reniwiiatCJ liis ot^n 'irîsci*?nc& in
tiicii
usually ohecka ILIXS f oi i.-,r!
.is of ;rost soo
ablo to talifl t h a t courso of-ARîo^L '.viii eh ftprjeali Lo him as

•
tsfToetiTo without ;-allin^ jiic rajnciios, 'i\m rrjault Uus baon
iio !,ns froiinpntly ont,vittorl n t j advorn&rios and attuJ.'L*l
r:o>> fsava tMo.ras aasil.y a t t a l i g d by a normal
s , i t has ri«lp9d to build up tîo ra'/t^ of Jiis i n f a l l i -
b i l i t y Fiucl i n v i n c i b i l i t y »
{?.$). ^ u t . n y important !ML» bfllea hi a a b i l i t y t o p

X
• r
obhor& to rapuctiatu trioir iiwiividual crt-.^cioncas and asi-uô thab

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himsolf • rio can than dftcrao f o r fc-iu i ".vr:&t
g/it OT](3 TJTO:J% p e r m i s s i b l e or i n p e n n i s c i o l o iiruJ can use t
y ij> tiie atLainnu/nt of h i s c r t a ' e n d s . \.a ôoii np; :
"I *.6.v<i MO CGnSîetico* :.y GO ' s c i e n c e i ^ .VloTfJi H i t ) o r , "
(24) Tiija :;R3 orsatjlod j l i t fo;- i;i i n t n f--.ll uca of b o r -
n alr.iost unon^y ^rocisirt^.
{'4b) n- : &s tho eaprtftity i'or ->ar,rning fi-on otJ^ra oven
ho violently oppageU t o irrtryfchiog t:K»y balieiro a n !

•
r/i Tor. ^ - o U M o;" tpi'd'or, f o r ox!Ui:plrtt n-> B^VS f:c iflnmac
fiTOi t>ie Jo .:.:unl£tn, trie us-j oiH s l o ^ n s frori tKo C a t h o l i c Church,
trie use of* r-rora^?»l-i f'ro'i tii<i

a rjftn oi L - r t oT j
in:; t for taking

^rt of every broî» iip :-ix;i"fl
l, t!o o f r i c i A l ccnndal 1.-;at GO j-otty
that -:g cou.id noh Magnify i t into iiiî t r e a -
son 'r a c o ' l d f e r r e t out ti:o mout dovioualy
mniriod corrupt ion i^ hi^ti nla«OK ^nd plan-
t a r tins tct;ti ..itfj thfj J*d ft ()
=;is primary rnl--is ^?x :.jver allow ime jmialie to iool offj .
•
ft'ljiit Tnult
: never n" f o r i l t o » - n ^ M v » i t : -vet -cre
bl^naj en c at u t i n e r*nt! jjl^.io hi;a
M s .ill JjrtJiovo 'v ,-ig lift sooner yia
i t t l e on<?; ftjiJ if v?ni«t i,t froqun-tly enoni'h pcopU w i l l J
or labor
(2?) iie U= the "n^ di*1? s p i r i t . of
Mis ssvoiast s6fc»tmu!;£ fia has o bo gotfcia b ^ nai;o-

REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES -52-
sifttos togotlutr and be£iil irjikini; nla-ia f o r 0
ijV^nts v/ri i di wfl'tli crush TriD^t j .t]ivi(lu*ils r &
act
i'it 3OMO oiL Jjifcl&r's ovititanii nj: talents cn
citiss, T.oy Jinvi arLeiiJ jvi hi tit to n t t i i n ft position of un-
in nn inerodibly short period or tiins, nvor a
route* Jô o t - c r .-JQII irj •. high

g S i t TOJI
a b i l i t i e s in any co^firftble de^to^ ^nji c
:.ot displaea 'nJsi in tho minds of !ii i LA3
iL<ispoct }ii;> ^ x t r ^ o r d i n i r . - lotdsrDriip
j r-iii"ticulTrJv vrie i n f l u e n c e iis 3"t&5 ovor paoiila* X:i
tiioy lovo rii-=i for i»ij vftry liuinftji q u a l i t i e s *dLyrt fio i s nt ftia beat
a«tl i s ^t!^*F'-fd i n sîne i^Tiortant undertaking* Tlsosc AI"9
of fEitlor 1 5 p s r s o r n l i t y wo should t.^vir l o s s sigEit af ;î
Biting h i s iiold oii hia' a j s a M i a t s s or en khs .{Sei'Fiaii poopls. ir« h
a Magnetic 4 u a ] i t y airmt iiiî wriioh r Lo£etrjf:r wibii h i s âsfe auoor*—
plisin»ifl!it[^ vri.ns t h e all<3£i a f l C f l of, people mfwi se^ms t o ro; th«n o f
t i i a i r c r i t i c a l nincbions- I t i t n i)c :d vrtij.cli does nor, easily <) is—
n thf-3 faca of ovidonee tiint IJB i 3 not
pretends t o be - in fact i s mo na oftsii tijon n o t , t'aa exact
tiftve Hitler's iiriofly portray ad
riis C(iai"joter vi'naa 'oe i s nt: h i s .ôst* I t is itoir titnn to look a t
trio ot-or sidfl of iiis ^rsoâl ity - tho sidj :ii ioh is known
•
L
to those .J\LO nro o fairl;; infcijf.ato hcirnis with him*
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tiiafc 'Jo'-ihhitls. avoi- ivroto a r a j

-
"Nio I'\io3ir*fr does r:ok ft'L^nâ, ][$ i s t h g
sdTî now a s l:-s was ;tfi*n -irj ^ a s a boy*"
-(337)
I f v:s glanfce a t h i s boyhood :ra fi -^1 fchnt i f i t - n r war* Alt' ffOTn ft
stiidant. i;o :jiudi*d i * a t IJ* wanted t o study MZ d i d f a i r l y
titeue saljjacts. Ttiin^s i*iftt not i.i i~ im aim

lf
ply or&l evert though h i s - * " k s ;wi y o: fail-
For ov^f ?* yr.1- r Vrfcva M E ; i di orl f h : dirt nothing^ as
f»'i- ny car- ba i ^ t a n i ^ n e d j axcflpt l i o trie ticmse oi
ally * Although t h o y v e r e in"
ci !:e d i d RO1; ii-i k work o r r.ry t o iw^rove Kirr.-
in aoJiQftli :i'.: v/n.' s o l f - w i l l ^ j sliy favi innctiTO* In VienrLa,
r itis mother diodj ]io eo:Ttiif:m«l this p n t t ^ r n orcn t.ionr;h ha
y ;;'! oiL stflT-ntton *irsd radwc&l bo !](*£':in& on
Uho ytrtirjts- r.&p-lech, wi:o wrjs ti i s non-hou$rj Uiddy,
"he .:ns Mover an ^ryo^jl ? » r k a r , v;ns unab]-^ t o ^;flt up i n tJ»a morn-
ir^gj lind d i f f i u : j l t y JSL H-;etcoinK s t a r t e d anrl 3oo:fi&rl to bo s«fCoring
fron ii oi' t3us w i l l * " As soon a s fi^ had s ft
had a l i i n h i s rocjtot i.u ;>t.orT>atl '.fork fiHiJ s w n t h i s
tirao li » or-
g lengthy p o l i t i i c n l d i s s e r t a t i o n s td n i s 1^11 cw;a i n tîa
l* t J . i s bsliAvior ha j u s t i f i e d an t h e groviads thut "-io must
l o i s u r O j tie was riot a c<> l i o « n ^ i c n iiunisofi ft.zV.vi fit™ ono d a y
:-ft WHET w/>itirtg f o r , i i i t T a r r o p l i o d ; "I d a ; ' i : l^nov; ir^s^lf."
At an ad'ilt he i s ;»bil] t h i s l i t t U n bo./ v/:on Iis i s r,
in dro of bi:i aotlvo noofls. In 1931, "Billing w

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,
"Dia ir
itlei-s werderi in dor parson rjit
t listen* l i i t l ^ r ttlrA nici't
nsrtj sicii an vim* sôro
i' an g&
Ludetke (ltso) also vi
"!!s ha'J i typical Au^tri

Jio sufi'ei'eii fn&K fin
dorlinefist Ilaturallj' thisgraw Iga;; in
ti.ma but i.-; tivt ba£hi--itt£ i t v;as appar-
ang i;V t h i "
I t vms I 'ly in tl-so lilatory of tJio ^
r.o:it t!ia pr».rty e i ^ ^ a êcrotary whoso duty 1b v.iis to koop track
of iliUnr aid sen ho ib that ; -J fulfHlad his
'L"IQ ..:rjovrj *;&.; only p r r t i a l l y j !ia.Yav.ir j "Hit l o r
a dlv/e.;,'s 0^1 th-i -ô btt j-aroly on irlockflj l o t l } . !!^ i s
still rarely o. ma r*-ici fi'^CiU^r.tly ps im;^?rtnj:t foreign fil
as •_ V
.•:& i s u n a b l o to 'iîv.fr>iin any kiîd of ?i woi'king sehwiula,
Lis aovaa fl.t-o no:A i r r s j j u l a r c^l ILC-I râ,/ £Q to bot! M^' t i v a ^-crimson
I
'fiidniîc and uovon o*clcek in ttô morninE; and £ s t up anjnr/fiero from
nine o'clock in t ^ n inornitn;: EVMCJ two In tiie Al'tonioGn* In l a t e r

<r •1
year* tha rsoui-s t&jKler! t o get l a t ^ r aid ib ~as u n u s u a l , ûpt b o -

.
J
foro'tlio war^ for him t;o ^ t o oSfl iwforn ti&yureak* i'!io n i ^ h t ,
t \TtiD ;:ot: spout in workki(* a s hi,r: rroTHij;flrd^' nglints n
but in vi#-,:i:ig ore or tvo f e a t u r e m o v i e s a i l In s i n<y;/«racls,
to lnnsic, o n t a i t ^ ; n i n ^ rilin s t a r s oir .TU-yt sit-.i'fir; fi
rj; 7îtji h i s atfiff* Jio «D4]»d t o havo a vfoloriE i l i s l i k s for
to (?ed n> boin^ a l o n o . Frwjuantly, ha v/tm'ld r i m ; for Fils

-
•• / •
in tho middle of tha nijjiit ftftar his guests hitf so
!io:nn and 'st thay

y s i t up
p and t a l k to IL i t vms not
t h a t hfl hwi GT&'th'ing to SB^ rui'i often tfie adjutants v.-ould fall
aslaop l i s t o n i n g to hi*, tallf aijtfut nothing of ImftortflP.ce. As
E at oê of thorn renflircJ rtfwnke* havavar, ho wtw 1 d not bo af-
* Tfiaro was om u n w i t t o n l,r- H:W:3
never to nslc -J ^ at tlmse
to do so ::d£frfc got : ; i t ' a r off o- sub.Joct aarl force
to rainairi for m o t h e r houri
vory IJKWIJV ^nd vis lâon in the habit for
no y'oars of t»u:i,nr» ;i sla&iiltij; powder every m i ^ t iKifore r a t i r -
£. It ia pOSsibJM thrtL • n dcTuwids no;wcr'S to .^ vrith/him in
tha Eiopfl trint the norrier will t offovt fliicl ho T.*! 11 \to
co;nfl wltii cl^c^. ibis behavior, j ia raot in kmpin^ witli
hypothssis for .;e curries monologue and frotjuontly ^
fcirrod up ftixnî- thfl * T-1is ie f:f,rdly ccF.-d'jeive to
t;.tire i s dPî1!? t>t!-er reason for h i e
l(tto iious-5- îSRiis^wl M5 adjutant aid j;c(j; t o

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bad ;in ai <?f illn^traborl imriodicflls -iith
Those usually Mâaiuoy ivitt

,
militftry cnattors ind ano

er (£yO) rdpni-tn t h i t h*1ias boan t'nat ainco tho
ift JJit.lar ims Iiour3 tnd r r has •
first breakfast At savtun A.ii- and Kis s ^ a d bi'csa fefast at
A. L« Tfiie inny have been so daring the oirly d ^ g of-tho ?
i t ia vary doubtfuil th'>t i j i t l e r could koap ^p t h i ^ &cli«iule for
length of
mint; (275) claims that Hitler ri£ a bed compulsion wM di

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"l;rnit tiia b&d;bs -riade in a i-virticulor wny ivith tli* =uilt
l^d flOJ-o:"din^ to i r r user I bod pattom ^ntt t h o t a ::•&<••. mist n&k«
tJse bed, b^foô he can ô t o sleop. Te have r.o otrior ififornation
or\ tliis wibjieci; mih from h i s piôr^l i^ycholofrit«l ntr»ctur<s sueii
comnulaton 'j be p
j disorderly
fthninf ronorfcsj "IK: doa* ôt K Lo
^ ;io i s iiLCftp'.'blo of v^rHnt;." il? r U s l i t ^ s d«sk v/ork and
glances a t tho p i l e s of noport-1; i-rtLifira ELVO, p]fttofi on !;is
!
daily. Wo iiatter he;; inportairt *•• ww w\j . ' ; ar "jy./ much
h i s at! jutojites -nay u r ^ him t o attend to liria p w t i o n l c r Tait';«r, ho
s t o tnke thosn s&rinualy ufllssra i t lâpiMns t o tx> a ^r
.-; lii^t. On tJio wliol^j fa." roport* intorflSt hiin un-
't thoy des.1 with military or naval ftffaj.rs or political inftt-

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* kfe seldom s i t a in ft cabinet lro^tir^; beoiuso thoy boro h i
On sov-sj"til oeâeifijis v:)ifln snfficienti lôssuro was brought to 'j
h& did atttind but ôt u-p abruptly duriri;: the ôssion (iiid loft
without apology ^ Lfits.r.it i,irna d iaeovorad that '..o ha<I n^"1* to h i s
privats tiionter arid hod the'operator siiow so-:!* film t!i(it ha par-
t i c u l a r l y likadp On Iho iîolo^ ho rrofors to d i s c u s ca34 n^t mat-
t<jiLj n,ri1;:i oach Jr,ombflr irt porcfon ^rul then
to .tho group aa a whola.

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tie h&5 a p«ssiou JTor tho U t a s t IUJWB flJiti f o r
of liii:i&#lf * If llofrm4JiiJj tryj official
pan* to appanr or somooê iiapâns to actor ills office irttli ft
iis w i l l interrupt fciio mo i t important -fleting iti ordar to

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th rough "jf IVequorrtly -is 50 absorbed in trio
nawc or in liis o.*n TA r-at : o ferrets tho

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topic undc:n discussion*
on ordinary days i " those t i . n a ^

^ rr-as alior:t inivissiblfj to k w p Hit*-
nm
e.. ii;covftr,r or fchg

and . -.* vmujy to it or
!in w r caroPully
you woro an ÔJdiono*, ^ . L|
^ fl that "hi;; staff Is usasdly in despair on
at oi' M5 prycrastination,*^ tirj iove- tn];os th<i}r ppnUoats in
t L i ; respect Tory serlfm'sl^ ani ucu-iU.y brutJios tfiwri a si do lrr' s^y-

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ing, Trout£j'fl$ flro :iofc solved 07 ôttiiv; fldg-ffby* if tho tirtw i s
r i p e , tho irAttrtf vfi.Il b^ o a t t l o j ons way or anotlier* 1 " (R<JS)

(]F,n i i i t l e r t
pr^r^nt •Mira^'ir ^^ T v^ry [Jsci-
-.vho fervor f:
\rivsn ha i& eo:Jry. ; tod Liy a dif-
ficult situftt ion, ho is ucnalj.y
frma it* I t 5.3 a t > " t triosa
tines U\\l
'inss most ^ttrfcod. At auch tiiiios
it i s aliw
to ât him 1:o tJika action 0^ n.rytt5J ng, tio
atays Tory
by hiiêTr <sTid is froqueutly olrtiori lflaccos::iblo
to hlc i^n
staff* [Jo oVtsn boco-ws d n ^ o s s o d , i s i:i bad
liuiiior, tnllcs
Ma^ antl pr^fwri; to isfld a bor-k^ look at -ncjvios or
ploy '
raodnfcj Aêoidin^ t o the Lkitoh rsôj^t
r;i:3 tatio^ to act is ôt duo to div*)rônt viov/a
his advisors. At sucfs t l ^ w , ho seldom pftys vary csueh
to thorn and prai'ors .iot to discuss tht> m

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-is kTiown as tho ^ngbery of

w 3 qihite uni-.porLant t o Iiim* M0 quickly
if U10 d e t a i l s of n prob*
Ism w^re brought to him* !!o v/as l
1
adverse to ozp^rts nni hiiri l i t t l e
for tftoir o p i n i o n Us lrn^kod. upon
(\s tirare :isGk3, us i rush ^cleaner 5 ^?*d color
o:"1!! occasnO -e vrithont n
vrord hnl ^0 t& ii Ms timo ^7
jr b OJ:
nobody then, flfl -.ûjti to

bo
" lunan
frequently saiA, 'Usually iu solves i;udciaiilyr ^
f
very l a s t :ninntc t a sifc^nviori that ime i»Cf>i'io irtti
s Oftly bocaugu !ir? TfaciUn,Les onrf pro&rastlnatea»"
II; i s d>rinr/ têso roriods of irmcfcivi-y t h a t JUtlflr
for IHs 1l innor voi(;eh| to gtu.do him* iio doo$ rtot
tho problem through in a uonnjil way bvt wait:t u n t i l th^
is press ni^d to liirn* '£0 i
tho i
I '; ct>"vic-
1
t!io i I do nothi^t*
Slot even i f tii9 i.ii*iol& paVty triad t o d r i v e '
ins to action, 1 v;]ll no* act; I w.ill viait,
no nattor ^.flfc hapi^rts* "'Njub i f Jîio vcito
&j b:!cai I ^rio'Jf trio \jifav has oono t o
f
SC m r l o d s of indociiiion :i*ay l ^ s t f UDM "a Car/ to

woet=* I f r.o it i ikluR#l to t a l k about th«
t h i s 6ifc!fi he bacuîes ill-riatiM-eri oiid "oad-tomijored* No-êvor, when
the solution iias byen îvan to hir !ia has a [^"ont'd*siro to &x-
1
L ,
]L::râlf. i;e t h a n CAIIIJ i:i h i ^ acijjuteT.tr; %;;•) '<• 1/ lust s i t
i t !:ip -
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1
t
pans to ba. On tlieia oocaaiona he do»$ not wont thorn to question
k
i,
him or evan to understand him. I t ee«an& that ha JU4t w&ntf to
talk.
After this r*eital t t hia Hltl#r oalla in h i s
and informs thorn of his decision. When ho has finished
thoy ari freo to express thflir opinions. If Hitler thinks that
one of thoso opinions ia northnhila he w i l l Listan for a long
t i n s but usually thaae opinion* haT* l i t t l e i n f l u e n t on U i deoi
alon WieD this ataga has b*«n r«a4had* Only If aomeoaa auoo«ed»
In introducing n«x factor a I* tharv toy pooaitjility of getting
him to change hi» mind. If eomacriB viioea; tha opinion that tht
pl*n 1B too d i f f i c u l t or oaaroug ho toooses
Aittly a ay a:
•I 4o not look for people herlng olev«r

idoas of t h e i r own but r&thsx ptopl*
who are olerer ia finding ^ra/s and
of oarryliaE out my
Ad aoon as he haa tha solution to A problem Ilia nu>od
s my radioally. Ho i s agaio the Fuehrar m have
the beginning of thie
i s vory flheerfrl, Jokeo *11 the tin*

and do** not give Anybody an opportunity
t o ap*ak, ifhile h» Kinaelf nt&k«a fun of
This mood l a s t s throughout the period when aeoosaary work hai been
done* As soon as the requisite orders haro been given to put the
plin into ffxeatition, howeror. H i t l e r BOBOIB to loae interest in i t .
Us b o w s perfootly oalmp oooupiea himself with other mattera and
unusually long hoursP (654)

This U ft v*ry fundamental fernit in Hitler* 3

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tsr structure. He does not think things out in a logical and
oonsiatent faahion, gathering a l l available informati<m p e r t i -
-mot to the problem* napping out altarnfttWe courses of action
and then waigtilJig tho tf\rid»J»a pro ind COtt for aaoh of fcham b*-
£.&r» raaohin^ ft dftoiaion. His maAtal ppoooBsas oparats in r»-
i Instead of1 atudying th* probleTn as an Intellatttual would
h» avoid a U and ofiwipies hiMftlf with othar thinga until un-
0071 a Cloy ft procflaaos ftimish him Tilth a tolution* Bartng tin *olu-
tion h* than bagine to loot for.farts i*iioh w i l l prov* that i t ia
Dftrraot, In this procedure he is vary ol*T«r and ty ths tima hft

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present $ i t to his anuoalatas* it haa the *pp*ftranM of a rational
>dgmant. Herarfchelfras, h i s thquît proc*$fl#s pro^»ad from th»
to th* factual inatsad of ..starting with tha f«iot* aa an
normally doai* I t la thia aharaot#riatio of h±a
thinking procasa which makes i t diffiouH for ordinary paopls t o

F
undarstand Hitler or to pradiob his futurft aotiona. His orienta-
tion In this ros[)«4t ia that of an artist and not that of a stfct#a
Uitlar haa bean extrestfly in uaing

r
.. this inspirational technique in determining hia course &f action
(and wfl are r*mtnded of hia fallowing, hio oours* with the pr»oi-
of a e loepHrfalfcar) I t ia not without i t s shortoomingB, Ha b»-
depend4rct on h i s inner guide nhiah natftg for unprediotability
on the «no haul and r i g i d i t y on the other* The reault ia that ha
moiif/ hia uourae ID tha faos of unaxpeoted devalopmentit or

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firm opposition 3trass»r (£97) t a i l s ua that:
"Whan ha wan than ocnfrontad by contra-

dictory faota he was left floundering.11
Roehra oaya that tiiar* is r

w
No system In tha axacuticm of hi a
thoughts. Ho whtrts things his own
way and gats mad whim he atrikaa
opposition, on solid ground.,"
rigid I t / of marital functioning i s obvioua aran In
TBian an UUOXpaotsd ûostion 13 askad* ha U

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At a l4B«* Lochnar (1B4) tappll»$ U4 with an axoallant

r
of thia rsaotiont
msm actually blush whan I

broached tha thams Q£ Qaruatl Httorl oajx
raldtionai • ** This arMfrtitly aau|ht
him off-guard* Ho w&a not u«*d to
having h i t i n f a l l i b i l i t y ahaLLangad.
For a momant ho tluahad like a
bqy, haTmnod end howad, than
an smbarr&ssad soawthiiig about having
«o many problana to pondar that hs
had not yet had t i u to t£ka up
aroryon* who haa written about Hitlar haa otm-
nwuted upon his rag»«. ?hvw *f9 wftllknown to all of his
and th*y have^la&rna* t o faar thorn* Tha deaariptions of his bn-

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hft-rier during thos* ragas vary fionoidarably* Tha nu>rff axtraoia dai
1
ariptlcna olalm that at tha olinax .ha Voll* 1 ft-i th» floor anl aliawa
oa tha aarpota. Shirsr (279) raport* that In IMS h« d Id thin 40
oftvn thmt h i s aoaociatos fraquantly rafar;-ad to him an "Tappioh-
fr»aaar # . Not one of our ij^forwrta who has ta*n close to U i t l » r t
paopla lika Bftnfataengl, Straosor p Hiuiohping, RohanLoh«, Priad**
lindo Wagnar, ajid LudtDkn^ have atrar oaan him bah&ve in thia inan-
thay a l l ara firmly aODvlno«d thsft thi> it A gro»i
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and the informant of the Itattfi Lsgatiw (fl&5) says
that -this aspoat rmiat be relegattd to ths domiri of "Qreuslmtaftirihaii*
Br*n without t h i s added touoh of chnrLng the aarpet, h l i

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briarlcr ia e t i l l aoctranwly violent and atiowa an utter 1ftole of MKJ*.
tional oftitrol. In the worst ri&fts h* nndoutit*dly acta l i k s a
spoiled child who o^nnot b&To hja own my and banâ hta f i s t s at
th& tablflfl and walls- He joolda and shout a .and stammars and on
oooasions foandi^ saliva gathers in the oornars of his mouth*
, in dssoribing on * i f th«se unoorrtrollad
"He wa« aa alarming sight, hio hair

hsT4l«dJ tiis oyas fixed # sod his
di&tort*Ki &nd purpl*. I fftftffld that
would 40llapse or have a stroke." (£10)
It must not b« suppossdj honvr9Tt that thss4 ragas occur
onl^ whan he 1* crossed on inftjor issues. On tfcs oontraryp T«ry in-
significant mat:tern night oall out t h i s reaction* In general thsy

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are brought on whomever AJI(/O;:O tout r ad lota him, whan thara i s un-
news for whi*Ji tie might f a s l responsibla, when there i s
slceptiaisin a on oe ruing h i s judgment or whg<n a situation arisea
in nhioh hi* i n f i l l i b i H t y might ba oâllsngad or b e l i t t l e d * Ton
(492J r»porte tliat among hia staff there 1B a t a o t l c under-
"For God's sa>* don't ooccit* the Fuaafar -

whioh Joi**Jt( do not t v l l him bad. n«ra — do
not urontlon things T*» ioh are dot as ha
Voigt (691) says thmtJ
"
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ao 11 abort-ton for mny y**"

that Hltl«r was tinny* lika thU -
that th« Hlight»»t diffiaulty or ob-
atacla could males him acraajn with
Majry writ ore be Hera that ft as* rugae *na Just play
Thar4 1* Wioh t o be *ald for t h i s point of -rt#w sinCa
:i i t 1ST 'a f l r g t r*aotion to th* unplaasant (ituatton i s not l n -
ii£nation, as on^ wuld ordinarily a^paot iind»r thase oiroim-
stAHcoA* H« go#s off Into a raâ or t i m d s without warning*
Similarly, whan hB has flnlgh^d, th#r» Is no aftsrmath. Ha lm-
nrtdlatsly QODIB down and b4glnB to t i l t about othw mtt«ra i n a
perfaofcly dalm tons of voioe as though nothlrt^ had happaimd* Oo-
oajionally ha will loot around shaepiHhly, $4 i f to BO* if ary-
on* ±a laughing* and then pnocvodm with ottiffr matter*, without
ths sligh.t4At traoa of rBsantmtrrt.
3om» of hi a oloseat aBiodat^fi h*vp t*lt th*t h« l a - -
thaaa r a g " conaoioualy to fright an thoa» about him* -'
{ZGl}r for aDCftnpl^ aaya It Is a j -
. t.twhxtigue ly whloh h# would throw

his flntira entourage into ocmfugioa by
tll-titnid f i t s of reugw an* thui maka
more
Strawa#r (37?) also b»liav#a t h i s to bo th* aaa4 f o r h *
"Rag9 aid abusa beoacna th« favorlb*

wwapoue i n h i s
This ie aot th* t l » to »ntsr into a dotail«d diaouaaion oonctrn-
lag tho natura and purpoaa of th* r«g»a* It la wffioi*nt, fcr

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th# pree»nt tim*p to faalita that hi* aaeooiatfte aro w*ll awar»
that Hitl*r oaa and doaa batiarja in this way- I t 1B a part of

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th» Hitler th*y know ana ar» foTo«d to <A*al witii. Va may point
I
out, h«r*Tsr, that thay ere not oonsoiou* aoting a Ions elnoe It
It quite impoasibl* for AD motor to actually beama purple in the
fade unl««4 hs really i* In an motional rtato*

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There *r» maqy other aspects of Hitler'a personality,
as i t ia kauwn to his as cooled an, whloh do not f i t into the
tur* of th* Fuahrsr a« i t is pretested to th« German p#opl»,
fsw of thfl jwr* iraportiiit of th#B» merit mantioii* Hitler la
as a dan of great opurags, with nftrv^s of steal
i s in complste ooatrol of arrery situation-
often runa away from an unpleasant, unexpected o
situation* ^^
Bayles {2) roporta two inoMtonts that illuatrate thia
tioticaabia la hie inability

to cope with unexpected s i t u a t i o n s , thia
having t*»n anuaingly rereaJad n^»n he
laid the oormratone of th* Houae of Ger-
man i r t in ilunlah* Qn this ooension ha
was hnndAl a dainty, roooao hammer for de-
livering the three traditional strokes to
the ooraeratoiiff, but not' r»alLxin^ the
fragility of the roooao, he brought the
hammar dewa with such forae that at the
very f i r s t stroke i t broke into bits* Then,
instead of waiting for another haMinr, fiit-
ler oojaplit^ly ID at hi a eoi^6aar«, blushedp
loêd wildly about him in the nwiner of a
amall topy oaught ateallng jan t and almost
ran from the aoene leavlag th« oorntrstone
unlaid * His *ftjoyn»nt of the tier 1 in Olyn-^
pie Gamia waB Oompletsty spoilt ifhen « ftn-
Atioal Dutoh wenan who h«l aehitftred a par-
sonal presentation suddenly elfta pod him in
two h#fty anna aad tried t o Jclaa him In
plain Ti*w of lQQpDQG Bpeotatoru- Hitler
oouttl~isot regain hla composure or ttajid the
Irreverent guffaws of foreign v i s i t o r s ,
l e f t the 3tadlun.'*
f
This typ* of bflhirior 1A 11 luatrated even moro olaarly In
to Gregdr Stras««r becauaa the occasion Wag on* of
to Hitl«r. 5t ratio er threatened to split tho Party If

a definite program could net l?s agraad upon* Hitler a?aided the
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situation as long as ha possibly oould in tha hop* tlidt aomfrttiing
night happen,that tlia situation would aorcahcnr «O1TO itanlf* Whan
It did not ha agrasd to $traappn*rfl damand for a meeting in Lslpii^
at nhtch their dlfToraocae could bn thrash ad out- Str&auer was
in th» restaurant at the appointed hour* h i t l e r cwaa l » t e - Hardly
had h» s*t down t o the tabls wri«n he axoused hinuelf in ordsr to •!
gp to thn t o i l a t . Straaaor waits; for s n s tlm* and
did not return he bagan maJdn^ inquiries* To his aniaiamont ha
dUooTtrsd that instead of goine to the t o i l e t Hitler had alippod
ait of the back doer and driTen back t o Munich without discussing a
al^gle point. (379) ^.

_
Heiden (527J s l i o t e l l s u& that in 1&23 h* wa» in oon-

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ferenae with LudendorfT whan hs suddenly ruahdd off without a*
much as *n apology. In th* spring of 1333 ha ran out on a nutat-
ing of the Varband BayrJl^char Industriellar before *±oh ha was to
gpmk. Thiju group was aot kindly disposed t o him but i t waa im-
portant for Hitler t o irin them orer« lie got up t o spaak:

t slaht auf den
aieht aioh verbluefft an. peinlioh*
Ploetilioh dreht sloh Hitlar ftuf
dem AbantB urn und g«ht ohne ein itort an dl a
The » n « thin£ happened a yaar la tar when, as Chanaallor, he to
«peak to the Ra^chvVerbanl dar Dûtsohen Frajfle. Jgain h s

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opposition in the group and again hft fled from th« soene* Olden
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f -{fill) *ayu
' D u i*t sio Trick, dan tar Fudhrar
; noeh oft anwand^n winii w»nn die S i t -
uation peinlieh ^dni, Torst»okt er s i oh**
At other times, whan ho find* himself In d i f f i c u l t
the great dictator who prides himself on hi* d*oisiv*-
and other It&darahip qualltl^gj breaks down
a ohild appealing f o r aympathy. Rauvdinlng (2S7)
writsai
In 1934 aa in 1$&Z ha ctrnplaiwd of

tho ingratitude of th* fi*rimil pvoplv in *?
th» sobbing tons a of a
nualo-h&ll parforurl A
accusad and eulk«l t Appeal ad and i a -
plor«d p a Ed retired in w&und*d
( ' I f ths Oarmn people aon*t want
Otto Straaaer reports that on one Oticaaiom
"Ha aaiied my h&nda, as he h ad done

year's bafor** U\B T&iô was oholced with
sobs* and tear* flowad down his oh#oke-"
(381)
(£80) rapcrting a toene at i*iioh the Party leaders
Trait ing for the arrival of Gr*go.r
MwTsr would 1 hava bsllaved i t of

3":r*B!jorti ha (Hitler) Jrlad, and
laid Tils head on the tnbla and oobbad*
cams to the eyes of Ta&ny of
he they nwr t h e i r Fuehrer
ing. Julius Streioher, who Ji*J been
snubbod by Strasser for yearst called
out from his nimbio plaâ In the back-
ground* * Shamsful ttiat
our Fuehrer like
I i
In extremely dLffioulr aituatiai* he h*d opnnly
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ened t o aonbiit suicide. SohntliiSB i t aeem4 tHdt ha Uaab t h i s AS a
form of blaokimil nhila at other tines the situation nee^ls t o be
mor« than ha c u bear* During tha Baar Hall r^teoh he asid t o

y officials he nas hold tug aa
Thar* aro s t i l l f i r s bullet* In iay

pistol - four f or tha t r a i t or a. and
, if thiiâ go wrong, for nQrealf**
also threatened to oomit suiolde oafoFo Mr*, Hanfrttaancl
di rectly after fcha failurs of the Pitoohj * * i l e ho was hiding
from tho policft in tha Hsnffltaengl home* Again in LMfidsl*ar& t»
want on a hunger atrlko and threatened t o martyr himself * an
of tha Uayor of Corfc* In 1930, ho threatened to OOJU-
suioldo aftsr thft strange nainior of hts nlaoej G+li* (302)
of wiiom wo ehftll spaak 1 ator* In 1932, ho agsin threatensd to
carry out t h i s action If Straasar split the (9e) Party, la.

i
1833 ha thraatenî to do so i f ho waa not appointed
, Bird in 1936, ho prcmloed t o do so i f tha Oocupatton of th fl
f a i l e d . (255)
ThoBO, hcuwrar^ aro rfllatiTol7 infrflquant axhlbltiona
hlfi ftBaoclatoii hftva loam ad that thay a To alWayi * poa-
• i b i l i t y and that it i s wl*8 not to push tha Fuehrer too far.
Uoro f roquont are hi a dvpressiceia about 4iiah h grflat doal

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basil writtan* I t la oortaln th*t he doao h*va Tery
siona from t l « s to tin»» During hio /sara in Viorma (1&0T-1&12),

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mfbar his mother^ daath, ha un)oufrt«dly sufferod from tham a
groat deal, Haniach r*porta (64)i

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PI hav# naT#r a#an

down in diatrass.*"
I t ia probably also true that lio auffarad from dopraaidona
tho war m Kand (199)

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A1W the d*ith of hi* ntio*, Oflli (19&O), ha also
wont into a BsTtra depr&iBiom which l&sted ( w aoite tine* Or*jar
Strasaer actually fsired that ha might ocmuiit suicide during thia
period and 8tayad>-with bin for t « r e n l days* Thar* lfl some a v i -
dame (str^ss*r J 302) that ha actually triad to do so and m i pr«-
v**nt8d from carrying i t out* I t i s «d ao int*raj*tLnt to not* that
for sever*X yftairs *ft*r hoi1 daath. ha w«nt into a dspreanion d«r-
iftg the ChriGtiTBLa holidays «nd w&ndar«d around Oermaiy alcnfl for
days on «ud (3ST)*
Eauathnin^: piv^s UG a Tlvid dftsoription of hie condition
i - ftftor the Blood Purga of 1934* Ha wrlt#a [716)t
"kber imiaaohat uaotito auoh #r nioht d*ti sin-

4ruck daa 3iag»ra, filt gaduaseaeji, Taraerr-
tou Zus£4D Hifla &r mlr gegscaaba^^ ala iflh
ihir. Vortrag hi s i t * Seina ûgen warvn arloe-
oh«i f or Boh mioh nioht an* Er apifllta Ult
salon Flngern* Idi hdtta nicht dor.
daau «r mlr tuhoart*,, ,,Wa*hr$irt ds
2a it hfttte ieh dwa EiBflruotj daaa Ekftl, U*bor*»
dniAQ uM Vsraahtung in lhn harujMtritt#iij und
dasfl er mlt aalnon Godankan £ani wo and art w&r
*»•> Ioh hatte gehoort, wt s o l l t o nur nooh
aohlnfea toann^n*** Naohts irrte #r
nihflr* SohlaTiulttel half en niuht.n
Mlt flairLtraampffln so l i t a »r aus'dfwa birteni
$ohlaf aufWiaohen* £r h&#tt« sioh wiadarholt
srbroohan* k i t Sohusttolfrost habe «r In
vollta sr a l i a s orlauohtot und

viel Man a chin um sich ha.bea; In glsictien Au
haetts or wladvr n4lma,nd«il
vwr* major orieas ±n hi a Hf* and w» oan aaoims that they
probably raprasont h i s vorat depressions. Undovbtedly he Tory
quantly haa minor onoo *hon he withdraws from hie dsacoidtos and
broods by hindalf, or periods whan tie refuoas to a*a aiyene and I t
irrltabla and tBpfltlant with those &.round him. On thowhbla, h o w

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orer, i t appears that the repofta of Hitler's da^roasicaia haTs
been grossly exaggerated* Not 0114 of our informant a iho haa had
olosfi contact with him has any knowledge of hie BT«r retiring t o
a aa&&tariun during suoh tinas arid thore i s only on* aouro* whiah
ladla&tas that ho ev&r sought psychlatrio help and that waa not
aC44pt«d« Ws must Assutr-e that tho stuy r«fWLts that hivo f l o u r -

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lsh«d in th# ri«WBp4per« hafo baod pi ant a ty the Haci propaganda
etgencl«5 to lure ua Into fftls^ oxpaotatlotrla*
It)*r* ara ft number of other roapeota In which
io#e not Apptar before hie a«40olata« »a tha »If-o&nfl
rer tie likoa t o ballara himself to b*+ Due of the m>st majrted of
theea i* hi a behavior in the preânoe of accepted authority. Un-

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dor these oirountrtanoea ha i s obviously nanrouo and very i l l - a t -
Uany t i r e s bo la downright ûbraissiTo- I s far baok as
(1C6) reporto that 1

oonfer«no«"with Foehnar* Hitler a
with his f e l t hat orushsd ahapaleaa in
h i s hgmda* His mien was almost
Fromm (371) writes that at a dinner:
"Hitler's *a£erri44G to obtain the good

graces of tho prinaea present *aa sub-
j*at t o qioh oo^manti Ha bowed *jmi
clicked and all bit knelt in his teal t o
pifta so Over cited, ufily Frlnoeas Luiae
Ton SaLah.Ban-li#ittln£en, har brother, herod-
it &ry Prlrrta G4orgaP and t h s i r aiater,
Grand Duohaja of Saoh«an-Tali«i&r. DaaMng
i n M B aarrlla attitude h4 dashed pereon-
iilly to bring rofTeahmettta fran the buf•
fat*'
On h i s Tiiit to Aojn*j HUBS (406) writes 1 < „
"ffhen le*diag Qu*en Helena iq Row h*

l i k e 4 fish out of water. So didn't
to do with M B hands.**
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To Hindenburg, h* mis sxtremaly abortion ITS* Pltfture^ taken of
thoir wetlnga. i l l u s t r a t e h i s attitude v*ry oloarlyi In
of them i t loot* almost a? though h4 n r t about t o I?i64 th*
President's hard. Plenary (69&) al«o rapoitB that when
f i r s t c»t f e t a l n he toclj; him by tha arm And escorted him t o hia
car. Hanfataengl (912) r#porta that he founl Hitler outaidu th*
door of tha b&nquat h i l l in 1*1 loh ft dinner and roooptlon war*
iTttn to tKe for nor Kaissr'a vrtfa. H« was unable t o bring
to go i n and msot h«r Hl^hn&aa tlan** then Uanfstaengl
finally par«UHi«d Hltlar to gt> i n ha vtii so i l l at aaae that hs
only atamner * fmr words t o Uennina ard then HCU**1 h i n -
flthor example* oould be oitod. Frore tha weight of
i t t&em.e oairtflin that Hit lor do«a loa« h i ( 8fl If'-confidant
badly irtiftn he ia t r w ^ t fate t o face with on accept ad authority
of higfi atanding, jpartitulftrly royalty.
TMB aubjerviunt attitude iff alfic ohriouj in h i s us« of
titles. This i s wall deaoritxri tjr ISDU (148} raporting cm Hit-
lar*s trial!
tha couraa of h i s psroratioa he

t o ipaaJf of Oanarala LudaDdorff md ron
SonuJct; at Buoh moments, he stood i t » t -
taittlaa and trtunp^tad forth thi words
and 'Eioallen^yT. n ^ i o r o
that cn« of the general a weia
on h i * aldo, while tha othar, TQH Soaott,
Commwndar-iD-Chiaf of tha Reiohroahr, was
hia onaqyi li« abandcnsd himself en
to t h e pleasure of pronouncing tha
soundldlr.g t i t l e s . He nsver said
Ssackt^p he 6R id 'His Bxcallanay Herr
Colonsl (jeneral Ton 3*aoirt*, Itftting th#
w;ord*. suit on h i s ttfigus and flavoring
t h e i r ftft«r-t«.ste*"
Uamy othara hava alao oonmontad on thia tandanoy to us* t h e

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title* It also f i t s in with hie vary eubmlsaiTa behavior to
his officers during the last w%r which has baen oonnonted upon
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by saveral of h i s comrades. Tt seama safe t o aneonie that t h i s
ia a fund an* at al t r a i t in his character whioh beccmas lasa obri-
: Oua AH ha oliaba tha ladder but i s present nererthclass»

Tha Fuehrer Is aleo i l l at ease in the company of diplo*
nats and aTflids contact with thgnn as much as possible* froimn.
(568) describes hia behaTior at a dlplooiatio dinner in tha follow*
*Th» oarpur^l aeemed to bs i l l at #fta«# uric-

irfti^l And uotidyi H i s eoAt*-fcRllH oinbej-raaaed
him* Ag&ln And again hie hand fuanblod for
tha anoourhgiog support of his tword bait*
Each tlms ha micsed tha familiar oold an!
bracing support, h i e m)«aaibas£ gr«ir« Ha
oruunpl«d h i s handkorchlaf, tugtiod i t , r o l -
led i t , juat plain a t a ^
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(124) writest
"It will always be a mattsr of

th*t I wne oanr ablo to study Hltl«r In
l i f e * aa t h i s might ha.vs giT«q »*
chanOB t o aaa him under noriml oornli-
tione and to talk with him As nan to
for a few brief norde at
I iiffror met him axoapt upon of-
and lnrarlnbly diaa£roeablai
He narsr attendad informal par-
t l a a At * i e h diplomats might ba pr«Dant«
ajid whan friands of mine did try to arrazga
I t , ha always got out of meriting ma In suoh
a manner on tha ground ct preosdent... Out
ha always looked aalf-conA4iou« whan he hid
t o antarbalu tha diplomatic ooi"p«, Kit 1 oh hap-
pan«d normally threv ttman
bacomas nerrous and tande to lo$4 hJts oomp-o-
when he has to meat newspapermen. Dfling A genius of propafan- •
da h# reaUt*E tha power of the presa in influeneing publio
ion and ha always provides tha pr*fla with oho leg aeats at
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o*reo»onl»a« Khan It acne* to lnterrlewa, hcworarj ha feola hint-
flslf qn tha defenfti-ve and i n s i s t s that the qu«gtiona ba •ubmlt-
tad in ndTincft. When the interview take* pl*oe he is abl a to
•aintain cons Gamble poia« beo&uaa he hat his atimrers prop*rod*
3ren then he gives no opportunity to aek for further alarifioa-
tion because h« immad lately lauuoheiG Into a lengthy d lS34rtfttlan»
whioh aomotinifrs dorelopf into a tirade* Tflien t h i s io flnlihadj
tcia lntorrlow ia ever [Osi^nar, 6&5).

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He i t also ^terrified wliftn he i s o all ml upon to ap*ak
to LnteXlMtUftla ["ffagnor, 487) or ftj^ fircup in T*iich h* f#*la
oppoBition oi" th» posBlbility rf orltioi«a<
Hitler's adjustment to psopl© in general i s Tory poor*
Ua la not r«al]y on i n t i m t s t*rmc with i^y of hie adsooiati*.
Is the only assoo^ta, with ths possible *3roeptiOn of
, nhd has erar had thft priTHege of &ddr«»$JLVig him with

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the familiar Du". Eiren Goeringp EJoabbels and Hlmnler met ad-
dreee him with the tnora formal "Sis* although aaoh of th«n
undoubtedly be willing to ancrlfioa M B rigj»t hand for the
lage of addreBsing him in tha informal nanner. I t ia true tiist
outftida of hla offloial family there are a fair poeple In Germany,
notably Mre* Baohatein and tha Winifred VTagnsr tmnily who add res*
hi* a« ^Du" and call him by his nickname, "Wolf", but aran
ire feir and far between. On the # i o l e , he always nalntaing
oonaidarabl a diataaoe fron oth*r pavple* Ludeoke^ wh.o wat
oloee t o him for & while* writes]
Srep in h i s intinate and eojy

aanntd no attitude of familiarity towards
him on thfl part of hia rtaff j there was
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a limy a a <jprtain diatano* about

that aubtle quality of aloofness-.."
And Fry (677) aays*
"H» l i v e s in tha mid Ht of Jtuo&y man and

yat ha l i v e s alone-*
/ It is wall-tnoira t h i t ha o&mot early on & normal eon-
vGrant ion or disautfrion with peopla- Bran if Only on* pareon i*

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praaent he mist do a l l the tolling* Ria manner of sp#aoh aotm
loafls any <xsnv»r94ttonal qualitl*B It might haTB had and tak#s
on a l l ths ohtraotfrrlatia* of a l*otur& and may aaaily d^rolop

h
Into a tirw4#* ii* simply forgatg hln ocmpanicn* and bdiaTae ta
though hs mro addressing a multitude* Str&esar (297) has
j brief da40ri.ption. of hie

"Mow Hitler drflir hinssIf oraot and by tha
far-4w*y look In h i t eyas show+d plainly
that he Tfâ not Jprating meraly to
ho wfta add re* eing ftft Imaglriary
that atratchad far toy on d tiia walls of
th» living *
This i s not only true in oonneotion with p o l i t i c a l mgt-
t*re* &rtn nhon ha 1A alone with hie adjutants or iKm*di*tfl
staff nM triaa to be friendly ha in unable to antar into i. glv«-
sivi-tjJce 0 on van at Ion. At times he aeons to want to g e t olonor
t o people *.ndl relates personal wperienofla, auohafl, "Khan I waa
in Vienna," or "When I was in the Army,"* But under the«e oiroum-
stancea, too* he Ins l e t s on doing a l l tha talking' and alway* r e -
peats tha sane stories over and ewer again in exactly tha jnme
font, almost as though he had menurlzed thorn- Tha gist .of most
of these « t o r j « i s ootitainod in KEIN KtfiPF. Hie frionda
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a l l ha&rd thon doiena of timas btit thi& doss not d i t v him f r m
repeatliqg thorn &E4±n with groat ontbuaiagm. Nothing but th#
moat superficial anpact a of th&eft experienoas ara aver touched
upon* It seems aa though ho is unable to give more of
than that (Hanfetaengl, £9fl).

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Priow (230) saysj *flRion mor# tKtfi t*o poo pi o
iftnt, a van though thay ar» tiia Intimate oirolfl, th#r» ia no
*ral disocMrso* Eithar Ultlor talJca and thay liatan, or *1BO
thoy talk ainong themeelvst *na Hitlar slta 4iUnt*^ And thin Is
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tho way It «aorns ti> "be. Us id not at a l l annoyed
of the grcrurp talk to oash othar unlsas of e&urja ho f#ala

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doing thft talking himaolf* But ondlnarily ha sa^ma to anjoy
llfltoning to others Trtiile ho makee baliov* that he la attaining
to aotnottliag e l s e . Hevarthelaaj. ha oTnprha^re ffrorythlng which
lo b*ln^ 5 aid and ofên usas it later on* (Hanf9taen^l+ 914)
flowaver, he doe* not givo credit to the indi T idual frqm whom
he haa Uamed i t and oltaply &lTes i t cut as hia ami, Rauach-
nlag
"Be ftas alfnye ti+n a poaaur. He

things that ho has hoard and haa a faculty , • * • - > '
for repeating ttiem in suVl a v ^ that tha

U&tenar io lead to bsliero tJiit the/ are •
h i s own."
Roehm ft I so oornplainad of V /
"Xf you t r y to tall him anything, he knows

everything alraady* Though ha oft on dooo
what wa ad-rlea, he laughs In our facoa at
the manwntj and latgr does the very thing
as if i t ware all Jiia own idea end crea-
tion* fjs doaati't *raa ae'en to ba
of how dishonest he U -
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one of his t r i c t s i#iioh drivee people
particularly hi* aseooiatee to distraction ifl hia oap&oity
forgetting. This trait has Often ooimttitted upon oo much that it
SCAT0*1/ iwsds mentioning here- We a l l know how ha ton &ay some-
thing one day and ft few days later say the opposite, ooapl«t*ly /
oblivloun of hi a earlier statoraent. Ha doos not only do thia lif"
with Intarnational wlso with hla \

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Vfhw they show their dismay and Call his &ttantlon
to thft inoonulatoncy Ke f i l e s off into A rage and demand * to
know If thft otHier pffTSOrt think* he Is a Har* Evidently thft
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other l4&djj.ng-N*xi&^h&T« aleo 1 earned th« triak, for Rausahniixg
.f
"liort of th& s; with Hitler at
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forget, like
tiiey have no daalr« t o
remember-"1 A"
^ almost ittrariably introûee* ft few hum-
orcus elements i n t o hi* apoeobes and giTt* t h e impraaeidn of oon-
aidorabla w i t , he aesm* to lack «ay real aenaa e f humor* He ttan
uerer toKe a jok« on himaftlf. Hayst (600) aaya, "He i s unable to
purify h i e glocnn/ s e l f with a*lf-iroity and Jiunwr." Von
(492) saye he i e axtrenely aen&ltlva t o r i d i o u l a and Hu»s
(406), "Ha t a k e s M n s e l f sflriously and w i l l f l a r e up In a
mantftl rage at t h e lu&ot impingement by not or attitudfl on tha
dignity aha h o l i n e s s of s t a t e an4 Fuehrer*H flhen orarything lg
going well ha aometimaa gate Into a gay and idiimaical mood in a
c i r c l e of c l o e e friends* Hia humor then i s oonfinod alaort
wholly to a kind of teaolng or ribbing* Tha ribbing le usually

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in oonneotion with alleged lovfl affaira of his associ&tea tut
nr» r^tsr vulgar and only hint at sexual f&oter* (ci&iiffitftangl
$10). Friedelinds Wagner provides us with an example of hi A

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tuning* Goerit^ wad Goebbelt? war* both pretext a t tho tin*
that ho a&id t o thfl V&gnar familyi

^ "You all knar what a volt is and an am-
don*t you? flight* But do you
it , arst A
know what a go«bb«?lfl, a gO4riti£ arst
l a th« Amount of nonaanao a
<' tn^n oan ap»R3f i n an hour and a
j,' is the amount 01 a*tal th*t cart b# pin-
nod on a man's breast.* ( )
ilia othar form of humor i s mimicking* A>mott or#ry-
oua aono«d«9 that ha has graat t s l a n t along th*ea linos are3 ha

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v fraquontly minda« his assooiBitva in thair presence much to the
atnUiopent of flr»ryon9 sxoflpt the ri ortttn rto alat> lored to aimio
Sir Erie Phipp4 and l i t e r ChRtnborliin.
Hitl*r r » poor adapt ttitm to jwopla i« peril a pa most ob-
in hid relations t o women* Si.£tf}b ho hac become a n o l i t i -
figure, his name hete baen l i n t f d with a grqot many women,
particularly in the foreign praa^* Although tha German pub 11 o
oeem to know êry l i t t l e ^bout this phaae a" hU lif»* his a»so-
elntes havo ssen a great deal of i t An4 th« topic i* alw&ye on*
for a i l Icindfl of 09aj»oturos, Ho^hly ipe*king, h i t relations to
women f a l l into throu categories^ (a) miah oM»r wcmiant (b)
treaeae and p&Baln^ fuicios, and (o) more or losa erdurlng rela-
tionahipi*
A* A" early aa 1930 Frau Carola HafimLn, a. 61 year old
widow, took him under har wing and for yaara played tha part of
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fostor mother* Th*n 'camo Frwi Balaoa fl*ohntflln* tho wifej of
tha fasiDUt fieri In pianoraaitu£«.ottir«rt *Ao took o w r til a rol**
Sh* apent larfi* quaiititiaa of ncmoy on Hitlar In the a&rly days
of tha Party+ introduced him to hor i o c i a l c i r s l * and laVj-ehad
rtttornal affeaticrt on him* Sho often said that tfia wiffh»a t h i t
Hitlor w*rft fi<*r son and **iX* he wn$ Imprisoned in Landth#ing
aho claimad that Bha wns h i s *ioptsd mother in ordor that

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tidbit v i s i t hit** Str&eser (300) eoya ths* Hitlsr would
• i t at h«r fast i M lay hia head against her to Join while
4trt?k*d hie hair twndarly ajid unimwriBd, "H*in Wt>#lfchaB*.
he osjne to pernr thin£B haT» not gona BO anoothly* S>»*
to find fault with arroryfching h« did and wuld scold him
f u l l y , orsn in public- Accordin£ to Fri*dalird* ffftg^fl
ah* i s tho on* psraon In Ganttoiy who oan carry on a monologu*
l i i t l s r 1 * prsi#Jioe and who would aotually t a l l him what #ia

t
thought* During th*a# riol^nf scoldings flit lor would stand
l i t e an abaahad 9ohoolb&y who hod ooncdtêd a uiiadflmftaJior*
t o rianfataongl» Mrs, Sschatoia had groftmsd EJitlftr in the
n -that h* would marry hi or dûght«r> Lotti# t who was
far from Attraotiv*. Out o£ aontfo of obligationj Hftlsr did a«L

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Lottie, but was refiiavdp (904)*

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Mrs, Beohataln was diaoontolat*
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tha failura of her plans and tflgan to oritioi£#' Elitler* a
l raforras as well &e hia actions* Nevflrtholftssj Uitlor
duty oallu fairly regularly #T#n though he poctponad th«a as
Than thora was also Fran Victor!A von Dirlcaan, who la

alleged to hitfe spout a fort Una on him and hi* cnraar (554),
ard a number of others* In more resent years, Mra. Goebbelj
taJoan OT«r the role of fo at er another *nd locks after hia
t super-uiaes h i s household and baJcas dalicaoies of
h* Is particularly f end • She, too, h -s been acting aB & rut ah-
mal»r in tha hope that Ka niît mftriy ona of nor ffianlt and
th*r*b^ draw tha bond botw*&ti th*m nrsn t tît*r* To LudttctAj
(1T7) ah* ooaplaiaadj *I ojn no goo4 as a. iutahnak4r* I would
him alone iritli ny most ohanning friands imt ha
Tharo was also his oldar half-îrtor, Angela,
kapt houBo for him at Munich and Berohtasgblftn and, for «
avssAd to pl&y a. mother1 4 rols*
Mnlfrad TTAgner, ttia. daughtar-in-law of Matari
has also aauged a graat deal of dominant. Sha is E^lli-, by
birth, ani, from a l l aooointa, i s vory attraotivfl and About liit-
U r 1 ? o»ri a^Q, She mt Hitlnr in the early 1920'a and iinoo that
tlmfl has b*sn on& of hi* otnunoh gupportara* Ho becama a fr»-
(]uant riaitor (tt the ffagjiftr homo: in itayrouth and aft»r hi« ajooaa-
sion to poimr, ivilfe a houa» on the. Wagnsr estate for hl:na»lf and
hia staff, After t h 0 d«ath of Siegfried Wagnar, raporta a.11 over

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tha world had i t that aha wo^ld b«ao^ Hitler*a wife* fiut noth-
ing ha.ppennd in apite of the faot that it BA-AIDHI l l t a an ideal
union from the point of viow of both part U s ,
Hvrertlielasa, tiltlar continued i o bo a frequent: guest
i t tha ffaenar'e* It probably was the nearest thing to a horns ha
has kjiown ainua hia own homa broke up in 19QT. Ure, Warner un-
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did everything In her power t o malm him
and Bit ler f a i t Tary mioh a t horn** rhsr* wsr'j thrae email a h i l -
dran, a. boy and two g i r l a (on * of them la our inf onnant. Fried a-
Hade) *hlah addad considerably to t h e homfl fttmoaphoPft, The en-
t i r e family oailed him Iiy hi s niaknaPU "TfoJf" ani
na *Dufl. Ha f a i t 60 secure i n thia houa« that ho oftea
stayed without h ia bod/guard. li* «o^netiida5 spent hia Christina a

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holidays with thn ftmlly and bflcom» voiy nniah a part of i t * But
further than t h a t ha waa unwilling t o go, 9T4H though t h * marri-
age would ha7# bewi eioeedingly popular with ttia 5#nfl*n
B . . Then t h e r a wmro a long l i n * of "paB
For tha moflt part thase *ers sarean end stags at&ra* . j.i~Lar
lLksB to be surround*! irith pratty woman and usually r«quaata
ttia moriîg piotura aompani«s to Band o m r a numbar of
there i& a party in the Chhnaallory* }[o saems t o
artJ-aOJndinary i e l i g j i t in f&sainatiag ttiaaa girl* with s t o r i e s
what he Is going to do in the future or the asms old o t o r -
about hie past l i f e - He also lUcoa to imprsas them with Ma
powwr by ordering tha atudj.04 to proTld* them with b a t t e r rol«a f
or promising t h a t he will fee t o i t t h a t they ftivj starred In «ome
forthooming piotura* Uogt of h i s aaoOoiatiqiB with woman of t h i s
t y p t j and t h s i r number 1B lag ion, do#a not gp J.iayond t h i a point
as far as wa have bean ahla t o dlscoirar. On tha, whole ha aeana
to feal ntora oonfartable in the company of stage people than with
other group and of tan oaitta down to t h e studio rentauranta tor
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C* Thar a ha-re ba*i svrsral othar women who
played a mor^ or 1»BS important role In Hitlar*B Ufa* fhe
first of whloh wo have aiy knowledge was Henny Hoffmann, trie
daughter of thfl offioial party photographer, Honny, aoaoi-dijog
to raportaj waa l i t t l e more th&n a proatitute and sptnt rnost of
her time aKOng the atudenta In JJunioh, who alleged that ahe
oould ba had for A few iflarlca# Heinrich HoffaaEii, h*r father»
was a irwnber of the Party and A eloe* friond of IlitUr* By a
queer tirtit of J-ate, Hoffmann had takîi a picture of the
In Uunlch at the outbreak of the l a s t war* Lfttar, wi
beoanie prominent in Munich p o l i t i c s , Hflffimnn disc over ml Hit lor
in the picture and called It to hia attention* Hitler wfts da-

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f\l lighted and a closa relationship sprung up between them* Hoff-
mann's wLTe wia also very fond of Hitler and played a rather
toward a him for * time.
With ths death of Sirs * Hoffjmum, the* horn* want t o
is from a moral point of view and became a kind of meeting
plaoe for hCmoBexualf of both wc*d. Tharo waa a good deal of
drinking and great fr«4dom la *»3wal acrtiTiti** of all tinda*
Hitler was frequently present at parties £tn7»n in the-
home and baoame very f r i n d l y with Uenoy, The rolationahlp
tlnued for some tl™ until H*nnyj who it AS a, T*ry garrulou* por-
aon by nature, got drunk one night and be£aa tovtailk a tout her
relationship to Hitler* Her fattier beoa/rie enraged and for a
h*A l i t t l * to do with Hitler-
Up to thi* tin* Hitler had ataadfaetly rtfuasd to har*
photograph taken for publication on th* grcunda that It HAS

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publicity to roimln a ^jratery man and alaoj because if
hl« pitffcura appealed It would b» too *a*y to Mantify him
he orojssod Commtnist territories* Shortly aTtar the above
episode, Hltlar naned Hoffmann aa th» offioijtl Party
toar and g*ro him th# axalujiTa riît t o hia photographs*
privilft£«a, «o i t la al)*S»d, hvn, In the courae of
Hoffraarm nillions of doILu-$. Ajnoi^g U i t l o H s
it WHS ftUpposwl that Hitler htd OOamltted sono kiad of
disorflftlon with isaupy wid had bought Hofflnainn'a si l«no# by grant-

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ing hint theaa KCIUBITO right*. In aiy vrsnt, Hanv waj toon
married to Galdur von Schiraeh, tha Lft&dar of the Naai Youth
who la reputod to be & hoaiosîual* His family war*
opposed t o the marriaâ tjut Hit liar iDBiBtad* All dtf-
betmeD Uitl«r and Hoffmann a*em to har« disappaarsd
and today ha ia ona of iJitUr's clossat a$30Ci«taa and axarts a
£ ra.it poroonal influonoe on tli* Fuwhror* Wfl oh a l l ooji<id*r tha

nature of tiitlar'g 1 ndi aorotion latar In our study al nan i t ia
a (Hitter of oonmo.li knowladga ind would l»«d «4 too fa.r
aTiald at
After th* [ienny Hoffmann epi&ods. Hitler bogan to

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pear in publio with hia uieoe, G*li, the daughter of hi* tialf-
Bistar, Angelar who had oona to Jraep hou«a fcr Hitler In l$Zt*
i.t the tirnn t h i j relationship muturad her mot HAT had gono to
fierbhtBaâden and Hitlsr-and Ggli wore liTln£ alomj in his Uua-
idi flat* They becams las sparable oonipaiiionA nrd beoomq tha
subject oT much ooniraaint i n Party circle** Utwy of the

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Straisser, felt that t h i s m s poor publicity
Was creating e good deal of unfavorable talk* Other membera
had Hitler brought On the fcarpet to explain whore ho was gvttlng
tha money to clothe Gall ani sport har around i f ha waj not uaing
Party funds for thia purpose-
Hitler became vary jealous of GaliM attention and r e -
fused to let hsr go out with any other mon. Some ciains tjiit lie
Jcopt h«r looted In during tlje day nhen he could not take hnr with
him* For sevsral y«s,ra tha relatlonablp continued ova r th» opposi-
t i o n flf the P*rty* Than MLO day Gali WAB found dead in Hit lor xn
apartnant - aha had diad from a t u l l a t firad from Hitler*• revol-
Ti»r« There was eon»idar«bl4 cpirai»ticn. The coroner's vortiict
was auloido but Geli waa buried in hallowed ground by a Catholic
clergy, Thare was rauoh apeaulntion wftather ah o t i l i a d heraelf

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or *A3 killsd by Hitlar* Wiatovar the fact4 n y be. Hitler want
into a profound dspr»a«ion nhJLoh lasted for nutitha. During tho
f i r a t days after the funeral, Gregor Strftaaer remednad with hia
ID order to prevent him from coinnittiDg auioldo* Lud»at« (176).

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aayai Tha tpeolal quality of HltL*rra affection (for Oeli) ia
s t i l l a Dâtery to ttioea closest to him*"
For a faw years after Gall's daatti. Hitler had l i t t l e
to do with woman «Oapt In a Tery surorftcial Way* Along about
1932, hewarorj h» beoaina int«rested in Era J3raun, Hoffmann*#
photografiiio aialstant^ Tttie ralatlonahlp did rut d&Telop very
rapidly but i t has continued* In tha oourns of t i a e j Uitlar

bought har na[rjr thing; a inoludlng high-power 6d automobiles and a
house bflrbiraen Uunich and tortfiteagaden where, i t i s alleged, he

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fraquently aponds the nigjit on £tie w*y to or from his country'

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*' Bra Eraun 14 also fraquantly a guest at fiarohtaagulaii .
and i n Bart In, Oeohertar wts told that nJFtor ona of har TieIt*
in Berghtang&datij som» of har uMerwsar wia found I D H i t l a r ' i
badroom, ffiadomaiinjaoaorj Ing to ilohanloiia, aaya that ahe hai
•onwtimaa spent tha antire nl^ht in Ifitlar's bvdrocA in
I t ia reportad try Nortaurt r{6O5j that ET* THOV*1 Into th#
lory on Dsoambar 16, 1939 and i t i s said that IHtl^r intaixts ta

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marry h»r whan tha war is ov«r. Bayord that* w» know
&bait t h i i affair sxoapt th»t Bra Braun hfta twlaa trlfld t o
°dt auicids aadl that ona o f Hitler 1 * bodygu&nla hurl&d hJLtttalf
from tha K4lilftain baoauea ha waa i n 1OT« with her tut oouJd not
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ttio Puahrar1^ dunialn*
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Tha affair with Era Braun was not oxcluaivo, how«vart
t h i s pariod ha h » alac noon a good daal of at laaot tiro
piotura aotrâ *3. Thaâ have b&an mora snj«riag thaa
moat of h i s fcsaociationt with aotre&sas and nuoh mor*
Both of thasa girl* wars fraqnaritly Invited alona to tbft
oallory lata at night aad departed ift tha *arly hour* of tha nom-
ia^* Durtnt thair stay thay wara alona with Hit Jar behind olosod
door* 10 that not avan hit ijnmedl&ta ataff tucwa 1*1 at traAipirad
batwean them* Xha f i r s t of th«5a ralationahipa was with Reuarta

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Uâllar who oonmitt«J auloida by throwing harsalf from the iflndow

of 4 Bsrlin hotal* Tha 0 thar was with Land Riefonatfthl irho contin-
ued to ba a guaat at tha Ohanflallor up to tha outbreak of tha
U l t l a r ' i aisoolataa lcnow that in rag pact t o women Bit-
Is far from tha asovtic h£ aal the PropaâiKia Bureau would

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Hk4 to have the forrcu pub Ho telifrv*. NOR4 of thorn with
posaibla axooption of Hoffmann and Schaub (hia personal adju-
tant),, know the nature &f hia gaxual act iv it U s * This hi* l*d
t o a groat deal of oonjeature in Party otrolaa* Thare are aooui
who beliove that his e»x liffl i s perfectly normal but r&jjtriotad
Others, that h* is iuumxno from such tomptitioua' and that nothing
happen* when h4 la alono with, g i r l s , S t i l l others belI«T» that
Th* lattoi* b#Uof i s bas4d largely on thft fucfc that
during tha aarly days of th4 Perty maty of th» inner oircl4
w«ra wftll-known honoaaxuAlg. Roahm n*da no ittampt to hid* hi a
ftfltiTlti»« and H»ta wag gflnaral ly knomi id "Pr&ulela
* There w*ra (Jao wamr othare, partioularly in the *arly
days of tha momnent, and i t was suppoaed* for t h i s reason,
that H i t l a r , toot bftXongfld t o thla
In viaw of Kit lor* a pratenno at purity and
tana« of hi* DdAsion for building a Oroftter Gflrwu^j It la
that he should be 40 oar*l#35 about hia aa»o4l«.t*a» Ho
n*rer raatriot«d them i n *ny way **c#pt ^t th* tinn ot th#
Blood Purge: in l&H whom hie eocauaa wae that ha had to purgo th«
Party of thase und«airabl$ eleawnte. It »U other times* h* has
b#en liberal to 4 fault. Loohn#r rapcrtsi
*Th* only oritorioa for mairfatirehip in tjie Party

that the applicant bo 'UnoorjditiotiaHy
diant and faithfully dnvot^.i to a s ' , Hh»n
ona b«k9d i f that applied to thivrva and
j Hitler t a i d , ^tiair pri-rata Hires don't
Lud4Oks (179) claima that in speaking of some of th«
moralists #10 war4 complaining abcut: tho ac±lotiA of hia S*A* men.
iiitlar
Be would rith*r h l i S*A* man took tha woman

than Bcmft fat-belliad monayba£> "tfiy should
I oonoam Hy«slT *Ith th« private liv«s of
jry fnllowor** • rfcpwt from Roehm1* achi«ra-
manta, I know that I a&n Abtolutaly dspand
on hlm*»fl
r
says U64) that the general attitude in th* Party waai

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"&0 aqythiriE y&u l i t a but d&n*t £#t caught

at it»"
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Thia attitude toward* h ia at*ociats& cert A inly did not
for high atatdarda i n tha Party* Capt. TOU Uusks
from th# Partyri on th» grounds thuti

Oia Voelkiaoha Partfti 1st nioht mshr
Partoi d#r anvtuitillgaia LûÔj ?ie 1st
ha run tar g^konsBn und ior
saustftll," (S14) A j
n slmiltr
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"Wost loftthsomo of a i r i i tha racking ndaana
of Jf*rtiVfl, unnatural a t e u i l i t y th*t f i l l s
•• and fouls tha irtlol a itmoaphors around hifli,
like an e r l l emftnation, Nothar In this an-
TirouiD»nt..iB straightforward* Surr#p*Itious
, subatitutea aai aynbola,
a.nil asorot lusta - nothing i n
man* a surround ings ia natural and g»BUina
hta tho opocnaBS of a natural i n -
On of Hit 1ST 1 s reaatlona whioh i s oaryfAilly hildn* from
public Ls his love for pornography* Ue can ecaro&ly wait f o r
tha nflxt edition of DBR aTUBRMCTL t o appenr l a l whim i t r#iobes htpi
ti» goes through i t acidly* Ha aaenut to get graat plessura out o f
tha dirty storlas and tha cartoons that faatura thia ahaat. (669 1
). To Rautoiinldg H i t l e r aald that the STUgRJJflt "lnia a fora
pornography parmltttd i a tha Third ftaioh"* In addition, H i t -

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ler has a large ftolleotion <£ nudes and, according t o Eanf-
staaogl and othera, he also enjoy* viewing i*1^ movies In hi a
privata theatre. aoW of Ttfiieh are pr«par*I by Hoffmann for hia

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He also likaa t o preeent himaelf aa a gra-at authority
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Bid lorar of feood misic* Ona of tiifl favorite paatiaas ia to l e o -
ture on Wagner, and.-the baauty of hia operatic musio. Tharo a on
be no doufrt .ooncsmiiig; hia enjoymant of Wagnorian mjaio and that
ha gets 00:18Idar*bla Inspiration from i t * Oeohaner (6T6) ra-
port a that he had .bflan able to o b s a m Hitlar olosaly while h»
llatoning to ittaio aal aaw» "grimaow of pain «nd
oontort hi* fBLoai hia broira knit, his eyea olo*eF hi* mouth oon-
tract tightly. 11 liitlar haa said, *For DB# TTagn»r i s something

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godly/ and hia musj.a ta vsy rsligioa. I g,o to his concerts aa
othera go t o ohuroh*" Aoôrding bp liAnfataen£l« howarar^ he i s
not a lorer of good music in gonaral {$95)> ile lays that nbout
8Sfa of llitla^r'a profsreneeo in WMftlc ara the normal program mieic
,- in Vianna«e cafaa. This i s probably why Hitler mrely att#nda
concerts i\& in later years, aaldon go«4 to tha opera* lfl# prof-
arencaa now s«ein t o run t o nisioal comediea a^d cabarets in addi-
tion to tha rovies he seas at the Chanwllory, Pope (22?) eaya
that Hitler frwju*ntly visited the MERRY TOOT in 1*1 ioh an Am»rl-
oan adraaa played the land* Ha isyE, *I hftYe. saw Hitler nud£a
hie g&uleitor, Wagner, aod amlrk iriian Dorothy doa* h*r famous
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baokbeftling nmibar in tha spotlt^tt". In t h i s numbort Dorothy* a

aonaiats of A pair of tana par ant ovittvrfly wing$, or tcma-
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times nothing i t a l l , Hitlar *j«tflh« th^pBrfornanfl* through
opera glasies and sometimes has conmand perfomojiceE for h i s
private benefit*
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ttuoh has be on irriiten by tha Nazi propaganda bureau

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about hi a •modest way of living* This, throu£i the fly * a of h i s
haa el no beon vastly crerratod* Althouî he la a
meat of-them faal that hifi mulfr a.r& eoaroftly to b»
46nBld*red as & form of deprivation* He tiate large quantities

m
e^gfl prepared In 101 differont wnyc lsy thai test char in
and thsro are always quantities and a large variety of f r « h
prepared in unusual **yo. In addition, Hitler
lnoreAibl* quantiti*5 of pastrlfla and oft&n as mioh as two

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r* pounds of chocolates in the course of ndogle day, Kor ar« h i t
p«r«one,l tactee particularly inApe<nalYe» Although h i s
art simple* he has an lporfldlfcla number of «aoh a r t i c l e of
olotKir>g* All are made cf the finest materials that can tvi
curad and made up by the beat workman* He OIBO has a ptaaion
for oollsctlng peintlnga and mien he had hi A h«art aet on one,
tha s]cy la the l i m i t u ftr as prioe i s ameernad. The only
thing that ia really modest about hl» liyiiig *rr&nge™nts i*
hia bedroom which la extreBi*ly single and contains only a whto
metal bed (decorated with ribbons at the head), a painted cheat
of drawara and & f w straight chairs* Frisdellnde ftafitier anl
Jienfsta.^n^l, both of ihcun have seen the room with t h e i r own eyea,
t havs dvaoribed i t in Identical termdi naimlyj that it i s a room

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that Oh* worild vxpaot a maid to haê and not a Chancellor*

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ha is preeautod, to ths Gerixun public a* a
man Of extraordinary aoumga, hie immediate atsCCtatae f r e c e n t -
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ly hare occasion to qtieitiorc thi« • 5eV4r&L cccaalotiA have been
reported on which he tiotu not carried through hia own program be-
cauaa he fear ad opposition* T i l s i i particularly true in connec-
tion with hia Gaulaitera* He aftems to havo a particular fear of
these people and rather than meet opposition from than, he Usual-
ly t r i e s to find out on lhieh sida of an lasu# the majority
W o r o he w o t s *lth them* Tfhon the
place, he propoaee a plan or oourae of action which will
f i t in with the B«nbiment$ of the majority* (T13J

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Aooordiri£ to Hohenlohe he 4I&9 backed down be fora three

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Ami/ generals when they protoetad again?fc tJio rapid devtilopisentd

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4.it the DmT,iig î>estiori# and th*t t^fore UnniQhj ê decided to
pafbponA the War i>*oaus* hs discovered that the orowde
the troopa DLarohing under the Chaiioellory windows ware'
iaatia
Furthermore, they nu^tîrondar abort the. neoaeeity of
the extronw precautions that are tfcken for his aafety^ Wont of
theaa are carefully ooneeal&d from tha German public* TWion Hit-
ler appears he looke for a l l tha world liko an e^ramaly brave
man an ho stands up in the front avat of hia open oar and aa-
lute a* Tha people do not know of the tremendoua number of s#or»t
men who oonstantly ulngls with the crowds i a addition t o
guardff who line the streets through whioh lie la to pass*

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Haither do they know -of a l l tho precautions taken at the Chancel*

lory or at &»rahte£gadan. Befora the war !iia house at B»rch-
taagaden vis «ur rounded with flight mil*a of ulactrififld wir«-
P i l l t o x « and suti-«iraraft batteries irare sat up in the aur-
rounding hillo {Ucrrall, 4G£}» flhaa he Tiflitad at Bayreuth,
troops war* aant In weeks in adrancs t o set up mad
and afltl-airoraft batter las id tha hlllft iianadiat«ly adjoining
(^faenor, 9S4). Loolitiar (156) raporta that Trtsn he travels in a
special train he is aQcfrinpfrniad by £00 33 ^laTds #io are
hnaTrily arjvwc] thvi tha retimit of arty 5arm*n ampai^r
tha war otartad, his train wac haavily aiinored utd
with anti-aircraft fo=o and aft. And, y a t , vîori tha
show him at tha front t ha la tha only orta *n\o do as not woar
steal tialmst»
Thare i s j toiissquautl/, a ccnsidarable di sere pan ay
Hitler &s tie ts known to tha Goruum. paopla and Hitlar
ha I s ktiDim to his associates. j(avertheles$ t i t appaarc that
most of his a&ocoiatoa h^va a dsep allftgleTice to Hitler
ally and are quite ready to forgive ; r ignore hie
lit many oaaea, i t seams as though hie jLaeoolates a:e quits ob-
livious to tha eorjtr&diotory t r a i t s in hia character - to thmn
ia s t i l l the Fuehrer and they live For the moements when he
t h i s role*
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Eitler has always been e^treua^y ftecretiv* in all bifl

dealings. Hftiffltangl tells us that this trait la carried to such
a degree that ha nevsr tells one of his I n d i a t* associates what
he has been talking about or arranged with another, Els mind
i s f a l l of cotapartaenta, Hanfstangl toys, and his dealings with
individual are carefully pigeon-holed, imat haa been filed
in one pigeon-hole i s never permitted to aix with that in another*

Everything is scrupulously kept locked up in his nind and is only
opened when he needs the material* f
This i s also true of himself. We have already seen how
he has steadfastly refused to divulge anything about hie past to
hie associated. Thifl, he belierod, was something which did not
concern them in any way and consequently be haa kept the pigeon*-
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hole tightly closed. He talks almost continually about everything

under the sun - except hinsalf* lhat really goes on la hla ulna
ia alinaet ftfl great ft mystery as hie past l i f e .
NeTOrtiieleaB, it would be helpful and interesting to
open thle pigeon-hole and exanine i t s contents* Fortun&tsly, a
few fragmentB of information concsraiiig hid past l i f e have been
unearthed in the course of tine add the as art extremely valuable
as a background for understanding his present behavior * then,
too* w« have records of attitudes and sentiments efprefiaed in
speeches and writings * Although these- utterances are confined to
a rather lit!tad ares, tlisv da represent the product* of soue of
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cental processes end consequently give up BOBS clue to what
m behind thoea much discussed oyftE, of which
writes*
nho ha A flwp thle win faco t o
has nat his tineartain fiance, without depth
or warmth, froa eyee that fleem hard and
remote> end has then seen that gaze grow
rigid, t i l l cert&inly haw Giperiancad
the uncanny feeling t f Thtt Dan is not
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In addition, we here descriptions of hiA overt behavior in
fsM of varied circuBBttiucea* We Mist Assume that thapfl, too, a n
the products of his psychological procsaaeB and that th*j raflflct
vhat Is goin£ on behind the scenes*

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ill of this* howOTHz-^ would b& insufficient data for an
adequate pictur* of Ifitler, ae he knows himself, id eTeryday lift*
Fortunately* patients with behavior patterns, tendencies and
sentiments reiy similar to thooe that Hitler ha* expressed ara not
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unknown in pa^choonaJytical practice* From our knowledge of what
g w s on in th# mind6 of these patients, together with a knowledge
of their past histories, i t may be possible to f i l l In some of
the gap* and make sone d*4uctions concerning his extr&ordibar/
node of adjustment*
We have learned froto the study of many cases that the
preaact character of an indlTidual i s the product. Of an evolutionary
procese, the begianlnga of which are to be found in Infancy* Tha
very ear Ha at expn-iencea in the lifetime of the individual fora
f the foundation upon which the character i s gradually structured
& a the individual pas&tP through aucceseive stages of

and is expand to ths demande and influ*rieeB of the

around hia* If this is true, i t would be n i l for us to
review briefly Hitler's pft&t hie Wry, as far as iVifi known,
in the hop« that it may cattt fiome light upon hifl £re£ont bfth&vior
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and the course he ie i&et likely to pursue In the futtire* Such

a review of lila pert %» also pertinent to our study Ins afar at?
i t forms the background through which Hitler sees himself* It
i s a port of his ha miet live with, whether he lUcee i t at not*
Thsra i& a great deal of confupion tn studying Hitler's
tree* Much of thifl ifi due to tfis ffict that the none has
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epallad in Tarioue naysi Hitler, Hldler, Hiedlqr and RU«ttl«r*

It o w n B renaoneble to auppose, hower«r, that it is fundamentally
tka 9AmA OOMB 0 pel led in T&rioiis WBJB bj different nanborA of
what was basically an Illiterate pendant family. Adolph EUtler
hlsteel£ signed hie c«n« Hittler on the firat party membership
blanksf and hit a later at the present time spell B hsr nama AS
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Hlodlsj** Another blenent of confqaitm i s introduced bj the fact

that Ad0lph*a acithar'B mother was also named Hitler *hlch later
b«came the family ocae of his father. Some of this confusion
ip dipalpated, however, when wo realize that Jtfolph'u parents
had a common accentor (father's grandfather and Bother's greats
grandfather}, an inhabitant of ths fltiltur*lly bakcvard
district ot luatria*
\ Molph'a father, Alois Hitler, was tha illegitimate

son of Maria Anna Schicklgrubflr* It is generally supposed that
the father of iloi» Hitler •*$.& a Jfrhann Georg Uiedlar, a k i l l e r ^
aaslatent* AloinP however, n e not legitiaiiaad, and bora his
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mother'a nane until he wne forty yHarfi of aga whan ha changed i t

to Hitler* Just why thia was dona la not clear, but i t is
generally said among the villagers that It wag ueceiBar? in
order to obtain a legacy* Where the legacy came fron ie unknown.
Ona could auppoee that Johaun Georg Eiadler relented on hie
deathbed and left an inheritance to hi& ill«Eitin&t« eon together
with hie naue, Hoinjver, I t i s not clear wi^y ha did Dot legltiaiE*
the 04b *baa he finally married th* mother tJiirtf five yaaro earlier*
Hhj the son chose Vo take tfce na^n Hitler instead of Eiadler, If
thia is the easa, A-B a B^rstery vhlch ronaine unvolred*
the dat* of the death of Biedlar h&a cot been eatabllBhed and
consequently we fire unable to relate these t*o events ID time*
A pflpulier w r i t s of evopte prior to Hi tier 1 a birtJi lftaifl&B plenty
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of room for speculation*

Thera are tone people who aeriouely doubt that Jobuui.
Georg Hiedlar wse the father of Aloie* Thysflen and Koehlef, for
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eiample, clala that Chancellor DoLLfusa had ordered the Austrian
police to conduct a thorough inTiestigation into the Hitler family.
A£ a remdt of this ijnrestigatio& a pecret document wan pr*par«d

which prowd that Maria Anna Schlriclgruber wap liTing in Vienna
. ....
at the time ehe conceiTWi* At that tijw ahe *as employed 9,0 a
in the hoae of Baron Rothschild, AHfioonas the family
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discovered her pregnancy She was sent back to bar hoaa in

Spltal vhare Alois waa bcm* If I t is trufl that one of the
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Rothschilds io the mal father of Alois Hitler, i t would *e>*
Adolph a quarter Jaw. According to the»* sources, Adclfb
Hitler kn*w of the sxistence of thia document Add tin incriminating
evidence i t contaliwd* la order to obtain i t he precipitated
events in Austria and Initiated the aae«6siiifltion of toUfuae*
According i& thie story, ha failed to obtain the doauuat At
that t l » aince Dollfuae had HerAted i t ami had told SohuBchnigg
of i t s wheruboutfi so that in the av«fit of his death the Independence
of Austria would rvneln assured. SsvBral atoriee of this gonoral
character are in ciroulatiou,
1
Ttaoae who lend credence to this Btorj point out Bflraral

factors which flesn to favor Ita plAUflitilityi
(a) That i t la unlikely that ftn alllar'a aaeiatmt in a email
village in this district would have wry much to leaê in tba
forv of a legacy*
(b) that it i s strongs that Johann Hledler ehould not clalik
tha boy until thiH^-fire yeare aftar he had carried the aothor
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and the aothMr had died*
(e) That if the legacy mr* left V Hiedler on tha conditiori

that Aloip talu his OAJU, i t would not hare been poaaiblo for hia
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to change i t to Eitl*T» '

(d) That the tnt^lllgeoco am) bebavlor of Alois, AS well aa
that of his two tout, ia completely out ftf keeping with that
usually found in Austrian peasant faailiea. Th*7 point out that
u b i t ion mass end extraordinary political intuition
such none In harttony with the Rathfrchtld tradition*
' (e) That AIOIE Schickl^TTibor l e f t bis home v i l l a g e at an
early age to seek hi£ fortune in Vienna cher* his mother bad
worked* *
if) That I t would be peculiar for Aloia Hitler, while working
aa a customs offici&l in BraunaUj, should choose a Jaw nastod Prins,
of Vienna, to act ad Wolpii'a• godfather uulflAA be f e l t 'one
Jtinrtlp with the Java hlaiwlf *

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Thl& I s csrtftlnlj & T»ry intriguing liypotheffia and mich
of Adolph'a l a t e r beherlor could be explained In rather easy tema
on this bfttle. However, i t 1B not absolutely nec*Beftry t o assume
that he bad Jewlah blood in his vaine in order to Bfike a cQBpre-
bonalTV picture of h i s oh&ratiter with i t * manifold tralta and
centimertta* Fton a purely scientific point of view, therefore;
i t . Is aouzkder not to bae* our recortfltnictlon on such alia
BVld«noe but to seek finoar foundations. Navtt-tbeleeB, we cap
leave i t as A p o s s i b i l i t y which required further vtrrification*

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la any event, Maria Anna dchlcklgmber died i t e n be
waa firs year* of e««. When be was tblrteen he l e f t the
Waldviertel and want to ?ianna where he leorn&d to be ft <rabbl«r.
The n u t tmuty*thr»e year a of his l i f e are largely unaccounted
for* It iwflflu probabl* that during thia tins h« Joined tha
and hod porhapa been advanced to the rank of noti-coaniBBione
^ Hts #»rrlc* In the armj nay have helped hie t o enter
the Civil Serrla* as Ztollamtaoffilial later on.

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His marri#d life wu etoraj. Hie first wife (bora
tan about thirteen yearfl older than himself* Sb*
ia alleged rto have bean the daughter of one of hie superiors
and ae«k£ to hav« been ID poor health* In *»y aTeUt, the
marriage turned out badly and they finally separated since, a<*
m
Cat holies, a complote divorce was not posalblA* His flrflt vlf«
died Ij3 1BS5.
In Jsnuory^ 1882, Franxlaka UntEelaberger gavfl birth to
an illagitiaatu oon who was named Alois. After the death of hie
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fir fit wife on April t 1365, Alois Hitler married frajiisiska
UatMlaborgflr on May £2, 1983 and logitiaiwcL hie son^ On
July 28, 1MB his second wiffl bare his another child, Angela p ood
.;.
a year later, on August 10, 1884, ah« also died* During thu -tl«^
of his first narriftge the ooupl* hfld taJcm afl a footer-daughter
Klsr* Poeltl> aloie' Eitlar'fi »c4nd cousin onee renoved. He
bad reared her up to the t l i » qf tlw MpaTAtlOD frow hifl first
wiffl when Bhe wont to Vl«nnfi as a flervbnt* During the l u t
•onthd of tlifl l±fe of hi a second wif#j Kl&ra Poslil returned \a
hie hoBa to look after the invalid sad the two children* She
remained In his hone afl housekeeper after the death of his
second wife end on January 7* 1586 he majri«d bar- On Mmj 171
1BBS Bhe gan birth to & son *ho died in lnfana^. I t i s all*gad
by Williau Patrick Hitler that an i l l e g i t l u t * ohild was bora
but TW have no other record of this. In
«ventt at least one child was conceived out of wedlook* Pour
•ore ohildrsa were bora of thiff union. This 1B certainly a
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married life for a ousto** officer - three i i m t

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*nv*n or pooalbly si^bt children, one divorce, At least oaft

birth and poeplbly two before aajrlag*, two directly after the
wedrilfig, one wife thirteen years older Uwtn hinself and another
twenty-three ye are younger, one tto daughter of a superior, ona
A waitress1, and the third a aexnuit and kit foeter-daugbter,
All of t h i s , of vaux&*t bafl never bean nantion«d by Ritlor,
In MEIM EAHPF he give a a very aiipl& pj.tture of conditions in.
his fatter* e hcoe.
Very l i t t l e le knovn about iloia S l t l e r ' s chafAct^r,
It seema that he WAS vwry proud of hi* aehievebietitA in tha Civil
Service and yet he retired from thia service At the astonishing
age of f i f t y - s i x , four yesra after Adolpb was born* In vary
rapid succession tb& faulty aoved L&to several different villages
and the father tried hi a hand at faming* It i s atfld, however,
that he always wore hie customs official'a uniform and tnsietad
on belnj: addressed as Eerr Oborafflzlal Hitler* According to
reports, he likod to lord i t ovar hie qelghbora whosa h* may have
looked down upon && "nere" peaaftnts. In sny eTent, i t "sens
quite ijerteJUi that he enjoyed fitting in the tarern and re-
lating hie adventure E a a a cu«tond official and also l a discussing
political topics, Ka di«J on hie way to the tavern in Lflooding
frou a stroke of apoplexy in 1905.
He ifl generally described as a very daniaeering indiv-
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idu*l who wafl a writable tyrant in his home. WllHaja Patrick

Hitler aeya that ha has baard trom h±t f*therf Molph'fl aider
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half-brother, that he uflod to beat tfce cMldna

On one occaaioa i t la alleged h* b » t tha older eon into a state
of UBCoDAcioiiGhoep and on another occasion boat Adolph aft
that he left hi* for dud. It is elfto alleged that he was
somewhat of a drunkard and that frequently the children would
haT« to bring him bone from tha taverns. Ihon Ha reached hon*
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a £*and aeone would take place during which he wqmld beat wife,
childnm and dog mthor indiscrlnlnstely* Thin ator? 1B gflnarally
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accepted and j«t there la l i t t l e real ftTidene* la fftv&if af i t

except what Hitler hUaelf t e l l s us In MEIN KAMPF* Heldan, who
luterrlewed & number &f the Tillagera ID places where the family
lived, hfld aothing of this sort to report. They found tha old
•AD rather wising and claimed that hie hove l i f e *a& very happy
and quiet except when hie wiferfl sister cane to viflit irf.tii
the family. Why this should b* a di&turhiiig factor i6 unknown»
Bfridsn fmflfieete tibat the leEft^7 « s e bope of tonUntion.
There is aoma doubt about the oraplexion af Alois
Hitler** political aentimente. HanlecK reportsi "Hitlar heart
fro* his father only pneiae of Gemafty and a l l the fanltfl of
t
Me trie.," ic cording to Heiden, Jflore reliable iofornante alai*
that tji* father, though full of complaints and critic lame of

. the gaTernuent he s&rrad, was by no maeaa a Genifin nationalist
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They any he fa¥or*d Auptria against Gertaany and thifl coincides
with WiXLian Patrick Hitler's Information thst hip
VAB definitely uitl-Geraan junt as his own father
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Klora Poeltl, aa has been said, w«;s the foster-

of her husband and twaty-thrtM year a his Junior,
She cane fron old peasant stock, wee hard-working, energetic
and tionecientiouB* Whether i t was duo to her yaara of domestic
'service or to her upbringing, her how waa always (spotlessly1
clean, everything had itfl place and not a speck of dust was to
be found on the furniture* She was very devoted to her children
And, according to fliUlwn Patrick Hitler, a typical step-
mother to her step-children* According to Or* BXoch who
treated her, she was a wry sweat and affaction*to woman whose
l i f e centered around her children and particularly Molph, who
was her pet. She spoke vary highly of her husband and hi a
and tha happy l i f e they had together. She f e l t i t

a reel deprivation for the children to haw la at their
fftther while they were s t i l l so young*
One could question her background, Her sister i s
married and ha a two sons, one of whom ia a hunchback and has
an iapedivebt in his speech* "hen we (tonaider that Klars
Fa vial nay have lost one child before ber jsarriage to Alois
Hitler, another son ; born in 1BS6 who died In 1007, another
sou bora In 1894 who died in 1900, end a girl who waa born in
1886 and died in 1889, on* has grounds to question the purity
of the blood* There i s even cause for greater suspicion when
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learn fron Hr- KLoch that he U certain that there was &
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daughter, slightly older than Molph, who w»fl en Imbecile* Ho

ifl absolutely certain of thia becauBe bo noticed at the time
that the foully always triad to hide th* Ooild and keep her.
out of the way when he cane to attend the mother* It i s
possible that thie ifl Ida who was born in 1836 and who ia
alleged to haê died in 1638, except that Dr* Bloch belleiraa
that this girl 1 e name waa Klara. He nay, however, to mistaken
in this particularly since both name8 »nd in *** and he never
bed any dose contact with her* ^Thers io no other record of
a Klarfi anywhere in the records• Th* younger fliater^ Paula,
Is also said to b* a l i t t l e on the stupid side* partiopa a
nigh"BTAde moron* This is certainly A poor record *nd one i e
justified in euflpecting scaa ODnfltitutiotuJ. weakness. L
ayphilitic taint iff not beyond the Tealn of possibility- The
mother died following an op#retipD for cancer of the bresnt \
on Daceaber £1» 1907* All hio^rapherB ht-Te giên the date of

her death nfl Decfl«b«r «1, 1906 but Or- Blooh1* rfleords shor
eleaylj' that she died in 190? and John Guntber1 s riacord of the
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inscription OD h*r to«bstoiie corroborates this. The last six

months of her l i f e n n spent in ertrem* pain and during thft
last meka It was nflftftflflarr to giro her injectlona of morphine
deily-
It is oft»n alleged that Bhe va* of Czech origin
u d spoke onlj a broken German end that confrtquantly Adolpb
B»7 haTe been ashaned of^her wong his playnatoff* Thia i*
i certainly untrue• Dr. Bloch reports that she did not
any trnce of an accent of *ny kind dor did she show any
Czech characterlatic ru Alois Hi t i e r ' s fir at wife raft of Culcii
origin and later writer a «av have confuted her with AdolphTs
•otiwr*
Hitler, Jr, was born January 13, l£3£, tha

illegitimate sou of the father1 e second wife bora during ths
lifettaa of the first wife- HA la tt» father of Willlan
Patrick Hitler, one of our infonaanta. Ha saeas to hfiT« taken
vary waah aftar tin fatiwr In aope reepsctfi. B* l e f t tha
pareatal hOH before tha death of his father becaue*,
to hilt &OJQ, he could tolerate It no longer. His ,
according to the fltory, nftde U f a very difficult for hln and
P
continually antagonized her husband against hlv. It se«ae

that Alois t Jr. hud con&idertibl« talent for mechanical pursuits
and his father had planned on sanding him to a technical school
far training as an engineer* Until hie third marriage the
father was very fond of hi A oldest, boy and all hia ambition 6
were Trapped up in hia* But tha &tep-mother fljetematically
undermined thifl relationship and ftnally perauad*d the fathor
that Alois, Jr» w&fl vmworth? and that ho should save his
matmj for the education of her aon, Adolph* She was finally
succtBflfUl and Alois, Jr. wae sent away froja hone aa an
apprantide waiter*
Bvldontly tha profoflaton of waltar did not iutrlû*
bin, for In 1900 he received a five-months' sentence for
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thievery and in 190£ he n s sentenced to eight doath* in j a i l
far thQ sane reason* He then n u t to London idiere he obtained
& position as a waiter and, in 1900, jutrrled Bridget Dovling,
an I r i i h g i r l . In 1B11 William Patrick El t i e r waa born and ia
1915 hia father deserted the f&ally and returned to Gerrany*
The family was not a happy one and broke up several tiêe in
the course of these four years. I t i s alleged that the father
drank quite frequently and would then COBS home ejid create
tremendous scenes during which he .frequently beat his iiife aod
tried, to beat the email Infant. During these four1 y«are wtisn
hip notfaer uid father hnd separated for a tiaej hi A father did
go to Vienna* Thia vuuld agree with HaufBtan^lâ conviction
thflt Alois f Jr» waa in Vienna at the flame time that Adolph
was there, ^_
ID 1924 Alois, Jr. wets brought before the court of Hamburg
charged with bigamy* He waa sentenced to e i z montha in prison
but since h i s f i r s t l i f e did aot prosecute th» oontonca w»*
suspended* He hap an i l l e g i t i n e t e child by the ascond wife lbo
l i v e s in GertLanji During a l l these yearo he h*fl never eent any
money for the support of his f i r s t wif* or child* Dp until the
tine of the inflation i t IP alleged that he1 had a very success-
ful bufiiJkBsa i n Gemany, The business failed and he has had
various jobs up until 1954 when he opened a restaurant in Berlin

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which bfrourii a popular Met ing-place for S./.» mn«
According to the *on, Alois, Jr* heartily diBilked
Adolph aa a b<>v. Be elwaye f e l t that Adolph wfcs epolled by

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aifl Bother and that he was forced to do many of the chorea that
Adolph should havfl dona. Furthermore, i t Beams that Walph
occasionally got izito fiiachlef which hla mother would blame on
Alois and Alois would have to take the punishment from hie
. father* Ha used to say a? a boy ha would hava liked to have
wrung Adolpb's neck on more than one occasion and considering
the circuustanceB thia 1B probably not far from the truth*
Since Hitler cace to power, the two brother* hav* practically
no contact with each other* They have come together a fev tines
but the neetlog Is uaually unpleaaant, with Adolph titklog A
T«iy hi^h-handad attitude And laying down tha law to the rest of
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the f a a i l y . Aloie, J r . ia not mentioned la StEIK KAkPF and only
a few people l a Germany Icnow of hi a telatlonenip to
Hitler
H« i s a young nao of thirty-two, the a*m of Alois, Jr*,
who has not amounted to nuch* Bftfor* hi# untie cane to power
he worked oe a bookkeeper i n London. When hia uncle becaaie
famous h* obrloualy effected that aoaethlii^ would be done for
hi** family* lie g&TQ up h i s Job In London and went to Germany
vhera h# had aona contact with Adolph Hi tier* Thtf l a t t e r , bowover,
«aa c b l e f V interested In keeping M B under oover and provided
h i * with a minor Job In the Opal Autoiiobile Company* I t ia my
inpraaaion that William Fa trick wae quite ready to blackmail both
hla father and hia uncle but that things did not work out aa
planned. He returned to England and* as a British aubjoct,
came to tola country vharo h* i s a professional epeakfrr* H« i s

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also engaged in writing a book about his associations and

experiences in 9itl«r
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She la en elder half^sister &f Adolph* SKP smns to
be the moot normal one in the family and fron a l l reports i s
rather & decent and industrious person* During her childhood
she becaita very fond of Adolph de&plte the fact that she had
the faelmg that hU mother was spoiling hiiu She la tbe only
on* of tha fanilj- with whom Adolph ha a had any contact In Inter
7#w& and the only l i v i n g relative Hitler ever •entloKad. When
hie tether died i n 1-907 there was a email inheritance which was
to be divided among the children, Since tha two girls bad no
.itnmedlatQ ndane of earning a livelihood the brothers turned over
their ah&re to help the g i r l s along, Adolph turned his share over
to Angelfl »hil* Alois turned hi a OT^F to a younger s i s t e r , Paula.
Angela later B&rrlad an o f f i c i a l nanwd RaUbal in Lina who dl«d
not long afterwardB. She then want to Vienna where, after th»
war, ahe was manager of thfl Uenea Academical Judalca* Some of
our infonnantP knew her during this tine and report that in the
-student r i o t s Angela defended tbe Jewish students froa attack,
and on several occasions b&at the Aryan gtuiant$ off the steps
of the dining ball with a club* She i s a ratter large, strong

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peasant typ* of parson who i s wall able to take an active part*
After Adolph was discharged from the troy at the close
of the l a s t war, i t Is alleged th*t he went to Vienna artd v i s i t e d
Angela with whoa he had had no contact for ten ytiuTB. While he
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wae aonfiotd in Landubarg she made the trip fro« Tisnna to visit
. In IB£4 she naoTed to Munich with her daughter, Gali, and .*

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kgpt house for Adoiph* Lat*r, she took over the
of Bdrchteagadaiu In I9$fl friction developed between
And Angela and aha Left Berchteagaden and moved to Dresden where
Bhe Harried Profesaor Banit#chi I t i s reported by ffilliaa
Patrick that the cause of the break was Uie discovery by Hitler
that ahftTO&in a conspiracy with Goering to purchase th$ ltuid
adjoining Hltlor 1 P houee a t BorchtessAdan. Thlc enraged Hitler
tc the gjctant that h& orttared hflr ffop tha house and has had
little eontacit with h#r & In any eass* Adolph did not
attend her at icond wodding
Gall R*lubal
Hitler's relationahip with Gall, Angela's daughter,
has already baea dsacrlbad in tha pr^Tdoue dection. She died
in
Lao
Xt hae b » n generally assukied that Gall URB the only
child of Angala* Will tan Patrick Hltl&r, bowa j reports that

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thers was alsq a 00a nav^c) Leo. Not much i s known of bin
that ho refused to have an/thing to do with hi# uncle Adolph
after tha deaHi of Geli* He nad a Job i n Salzburg and frequently
Dads to Berchteflgaden t o v i s i t hJla uother when Hitler waa i n
Berlin, but would leave again just as aoon afl word wats received
that Hitlor was on hi a way there. According t o Wllllan Patrick,
he openly accused Hitler of causing Geli'e de&th and refused
to apeak to him again a a long a? he lived* Word haa baen
r«celvad that he was k i l l e d in 194£ while in tha Balkans. *
'IS)
Paula
Peuls H i t l e r , or Hiedler, i s Ad*lphTa raal *i«t*r and

is (flTfln years younger* Hhat hapjxjned to Hw after her mother's
death is a aâtery u n t i l sh* was discovered living Tory poorly
in an attic In Vienna whare ahe has & position addressing
ocrolopas for an insurance company. She now livoa undor the
naae of Proa TfoU ( H i t l e r ' s ulcJaiaua la Holf) «nd ia allnged to
be Tory ûser M*d to recaiv* at> one in bor hoae, Ur* Blocli went
to viait h«r in the hope that aihe migbt intercede with

brother and obtain panaiaaion for kin tc take some aonoy out
of th* country whan be trap exllad. He rapped on her door a
nuntiur of tittea but received no answer* Filially, ths neighbor
an tha same land \ tig came to the door and aeked who ha paa aod
irhat h» wanted* The neighbor explained that Frau Wolf never
received anyone and intimated that she was Tgry queer (othar
uritars have alao reported this)* She prooipad, however, t a
deliver any iweaaga he roight give her* Ur* Bloch eiplainod
bis predleanest l a detail* Tha n^xt day when he raturned, hoping
that he would havo aa opportuniV of epaalclug to Paula Hitler
personally, tha neighbor reported that Paula was very gldd to
bear from him and that she would do everything she could to
help hiu* Nothing nor a.
During her childhood, according to
S
Patrialc
Hitler, she and Adolph did not get on very well
There saaas to have been considerable friction and Jaalouay
batwaen them, particularly sine* Alois, J r , wb# always taking
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her aide. A* far as ia known, Hitler had no contact wltti her

whatever frojn the t i » his nother died until 19M whan he becane
Chancellor. Ha has never nentloned her anywharej ap far as Oftfl
be determined. I t Is allegad that he now send* her a small1
alloianc* ea<sh month to alleviate har poverty and ksep her out
of tha limelight, According to William Patrick Hitler, his
uncle becaae,nore Lnterreatad ID her a.s the friction with Angela
Increased. It Is «nld that he h&a had her visit ola at Berahtes-
* " r i ' i
and WJ.11 am Patrice met hor at the Bayreuth Festival in

where she went br tha naae of Frau folf t out Httler did not
nwmtion to anyone that i t waa hla aist«r. Ha said aha i s a l i t t l »
on the stupid side and not very interesting to taUc to since
i &ho rarely opens her nouth*
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Thla Is Adolph Hitler's family, past and present* It

Is posflibla that there is soother si^tor, Ida, an iobeolle, who
i s fltlll living t but i f &o wo have do knowledge of her where-
ebouta. On the whols, It Is DotMng to be proud of and Hitler
aay be wise in keeping i t well under cover.
If WB l e t our imaginations carry UP back into tb«
eari/ '90's I t i s aot difflimit to picture what Ufa VBB Hlce
far Adolph ia hla earliest yâra, E\» father wao probably not ,
l
l taitfh Goapaiyr for hie mothar* Mot only vav he twen^-three years
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older but, i t aaena, he Bp&tit afiot of hi^ spare time in the

taverna or gossiping with the neighbor a. Purthemoret his iiather
knew ftoly too >ell the past hiatory of her husband, who was also
her foster-father, and one CM Imaglae that for a twenty-fiy* yeex
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-( old woman thia waa not what bight ba called a romantic marriage-
Voreovar, LLara Hitler had lost her first two children, and
pocBlblj a third, In th# courae of thru or four yeara* Then
Adolph arrivsd. Under these circumstances, I t la almost
inevitable that ha becama the focal point la her l i f a and that
she loft no atone unturned to keap him all Ye. All of the
affection that Dentally would have gone to her husband and to
tor other children now bacaae laYlehed on thlft newly bom
I t in aafa to assuw that for flT4 years l i t t l a
was the osntor of attraction In tills hone* Bat than a terrible

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vTaDt happened in Adolph'B Ufa - another son waa b<?rn* Ho
longar waB he the center of attraction, no longer was he the
Icing of the roost• The naw-coaor usurped a l l thift and l i t t l e

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* Adolph, who was on hie way to growing up, w*a l e f t to ahlft nora
or lesa for hipflelf - at l«Aflt, no i t probably fleonatf to hijn*
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Sharing wafl some thing he had not learned up to this tine, and I t
w.-iE probably, a bittor exporienee fdr hi* as i t ifl. for oont
ohildran who hava a sibling born when they are in this age
perio4+ In fact, in view of the ftarlier neperlencva of fala
parents i t la"* reasonable to suppose that i t waa probably M H
acnta In his caee then i t ia with tha aTarage boy* .
For two years be had to pat tip ifith thio state of af-
fairs* Then matters went from bad to worse - & bab^ flietor wa&
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born, yore competition and s t i l l less attention for the baby

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si&tn ai¥i tJtws ailing brother wera coninutlê of hie mother's
< tiae whlla be waa being a#nt off to school and aade_to tak*
of himself* Four yearG la tar txsgedy agaiin visited the flitlar
household» When Adcdph was sloven years old [ in 1900) hi? baby
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brother, Edmund, dlad. Again Ire caa imagine thnt Adolph renped
an additional her.vent of ftffaction) and again because the apple of
h i s motFia^fl eye,
• Thia i s certainly fin extraordinary aeries of events
which nuat have l e f t their mnrk on Adolph's iftn&ture "pe.]pflc-[ifllity*
•
What probably went on in h i s Bind during thei>e ye are we ahull con-

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sida? later en* I t i s sufficient at the moment to point out the
extraordinary ae'iUBdta of tt/eiits and the p>ob&bly effects they bad
on the membere of the family And their relations with each other.
When Adolph -nas six years old he WAS sent off to 3ch.ooX*
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Th« firflt school use A very suall Tolkacbule where three gnuiep met
in the swe room and were taught fcy the s.-une teacher. Inj apit of
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tJia fact that he had to change schools several times tn the course
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of the next few yearn, due to the fact that h i s father kept buying
BJUL s e l l i n g hifl propert/ and soring fros one pluoe to another t be
So ems tc hate done quite well In his studies. When he mis eight
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years old he attended a Benedict Monastery in Lcuabapk. He wn£ vary
much intrigufld with a l l this - i t gAve hia h i s f i r s t powerful l n -
pression of human nchisTejnent* At that time hi a anbiUott wap to be-
come an abbot* "Bat things did not work out very J.ôll* He wna d i s -
missed frooti the EDonafltery because he w&$ caught daokin^ in the gar-
dans. Hia l a s t year in VoUkfichule .w&.fl i n Leondlng where he received
high Jterke in a l l h i s subject a with the occasional exception of
dinging, drawing and physical exerciaae,

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ID 1900, the y^HT his brother fidaund disci, he entered tha
Reolachule in LITIZ* TO the utter aimxeiaent of a l l who knew him h i s

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school work wag so poor that he failed tnd hed to repent the el A B B
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another tine. Then there w^s a gradual improveaant in his work,

partiflularly In history, free-hand dmwing and gymnastice. In these
subjects he was mar lead * excellent" several tiraes+ lli-thematlcs,
French, German, etc*, remained mediocre9 s-omatineG Batisfactory,
SOBStimes unsatisfactory. On "Effort" he wss frequently narked
"irregular* 1 - When he was• fourteen years of age his father died sud-
denly. The following year he Left the Renlschule in Lin2 and
teadad the one in Steyi1. Re do not.know why thia change wee
Dr, BlOtih ie under the impreaaicm that he waa 'doing badly toward
the end of the year in the Llnz school and was sant to Styrlp be-
cause i t had the reputation of being easier. L But hia performance
there was very mediocre. The onltf two pubjecta in which ha excel-
led were in free-hand drawing, in whiolMie was marked "jpraiss-
worthy" > and gymnafltics, in which ht received the mark of "excel-
lent* P In the f i r e t sameeter "German Language" w&3 "wisatififftctory"
and in "History" i t wan ''adeûflte'1*
All this ia beautifully glossed ovt*r in Hitler's descrip-
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tion of these yaara. According to hi a etory he was at odds with his

father concerning his future career a a artist and in order to hava
his own way he sabotaged his fitudiea - at lesst those ha felt would
not contribute to an artist*& career, ind Hlatory which heflaysal-
wajB fnscinated hlia. In these oûdivs, according to his own atory
hs waa always outstanding» An aKamioaUon of hi£ report cards r*-
veala no such thing* History, oTea in hifl laat js&r in Realschule
is adequate or barely passing, and other subj^cta whiah wight ba us*-
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ful to an a r t i s t are in the &a*e isategory- A better diaghooiB would

be thnt he waa outat£itfiug in those subjects vbich did not require '
any preparation or thought while In those that required.applica-

tion he was sadly lacking* We frequently find report cards of thifi
type auong our patients who ere very Intelligent but refuse to
work, They sure bi-ight enough to catch on to fi fetr of the
t a l principlsa without exerting themselves and clever enough to
plify thas* sufficiently to olytain a. paâirig grade without ever do-

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ing any ehidyinfj* They- give the impresBion of knowing something
nbout the subject but their knowledge, is Tcry superficial and ie

glpsoed OTer p.:ith glib wards and terminology,
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Thio evalufttdlon of Hitler* B school career f i t s in with

the Afltimony of former fellow atudauts and teacher a. Ajcccvrdiyg
to their testimony lie naver applied himself nnd wns bore<S Witi
what waa going on* While the teacher was explaining new notori^l,
he read the books of Karl Hay (InJinii aiid Wild West storiep) which
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ho kept concealed under hia desk* He would come to school with

bowie knives t hetch©ts> etc** ajfld wpp A1W»7£ trying to i n i t i a t e
Indian gfijrtes In which he THIS to be ^he leader* The other boys,
howeverj were not.greatly ijapraBBed by him find hi? big talk or his
attempts to play the leader. On the whole, they preferred to f o l -
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low the leader3hij> of boys who nere more aOfllally-mlnded/ more

r e a l i s t i c in their attitudes-raid ha Id greater promise of future
if then Kitlef who gave every indtication of being laxyr

uhcoaperative, lived in a world of fantasy, talked big but did
nothing of merit* He probably did not improve his standing with
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th* other boys whsn, in his twelfth year, he wos found guilty of a
"SittlichlcaitBTergeheu" in the echool. Just what the oeseual in-
(Ji aeration conuldtsd of we (Jo not know but Dr* Bloch, iiho remeabera
oue of the teachers in the School told him about i t , feala

certain tb&t he hnd dona sometbirvg with a l i t t l e girl* He was
eeverely censured for this «id barely miaaed being appalled from
school. I t is possible that he was ostracized by hie fellow atu-
dents and th-nt t h i s i s the resson he chcnged schools the following
yearv
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In September, 1305, he stoppnd going to school altogether

and returned to Leoadiag whara he lived, with his mother find sister*
According to his blographera, he was suffering from luti^-troubiis
during thia period and had to remain in bed the greater pbrt of the
tipve» Dr^-Bloch, who was the family doctor at thifr time is &t a
Iocs to iinderfltfliid how thia story evar got started b&caufle th*re
was no sign of lyng trouble of any s o r t . Adolph cnne to his office
now and then with o alight cold or a tiore throat but there was noth-
ing alee worg with him* According tft Pr- Bloch, he wsaaTery quiet
boy at thifi Unei, ratliw elight la build .but fairly wlry# He
v&ry courteous aari patiently wnitod for his turn. He made
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no fuss vben the doctor looked into his throat or when ha
i t with an (intifleptit* Ha *aa very shy and had l i t t l e to aay esc-
i
cept when spoJt^n to* But there was no cign of lung trouble*
During this tine, however> he frequently went with hi3

»oth&r to v i s i t hia aunt la Spital, Lower Austria wher& ha «lao
spent vacations. The doctor who t r e a t s bib there i t alleged to
have said to the nunti flFtom thia i l l n e s s Adolph will not recover*"
I t I t ABBumed that he referred to A Ivmg condition but I t saasL*
that i t joust have been very elight because It waa not reported to
Dr. Bloch when he returned to Leonding n few ponths la t o r and hifl
records show no entry which would even suggest such an ailment.
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Although the mother £ income was extremal/ modest, he made

no attempt to find work* There i s floae evidence that he rent to a
Munich art &ehool for ft short tino during t h i s period * Host of his
time irafl evidently apBnt in loafing Around J3nd daubing paints find
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wflter col ore. He tool: Ion*-; wclfcP into the h i l l s , supposedly to

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paint, but i t i s reported •that he was aeen there delivering speeches

t& the rooke of the country tide in P, most energetic tone of
In October, 1607, he we&t to Vienna to prflpFLro
for the State enuiiafitlons for admission ae student to the
of Art. He qualified for admission, to the einflination but failed
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to he flceepted AS n 3tu4*ut, On the f i r at dry of the eKaminntion

the aesignioent WBS' "The £bqmleion Trow ParfldiBa" flnd on the sec-
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ond dayi "An Episode of the Grertt Flood"* fbe conment of the eoc- .
aminere was> *Too few head a1*.
He returned fcoae to Litis but there i s no indication that
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ha communicated to anytx*ty the results of tho examination. It nfiff

undoubtedly A " s a w e bloir to him for he t a l l a us hlaiaelf that he
wouldn't urjdorstflnd i t , "ha wnfi 3o sure he would succeed**1 At thld
time his mother had already undergone An operation for cancer of
the breuat. She waa f i l l i n g rather rapidly nnd l i t t l e hop&.nas hold
for her recoTery* She died on December £ 1 , 1907 and waa buried on
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Christmas Eva* To preaerru a Lnut imprtselon, he sketched her on

her deathbed- Adolph, according to Dr. Blpch, was completoly brokeni
w
Iq nil mj career I have never &aan Anyone BO proetrate with grief
a a Adolph Hitler." Although his si (stare cwne to Dr. Sloch a few days
After the funeral .ind expreSbad themeelv^G fully, Adolph ren^laad el*
h
l*nt* Aft the l i t t l e group l e f t , he enidi "I shr.ll be grateful to you ,

* (EB) After the funeral he stood a t her gr*ve for a long
JV f_
after the slaters hsd l e f t . The bottom hfld obviously fallen
out of h i s world. Tears c&me into Or* Blocks eyes as be described
the tragic flcenfl* "His Bother would turn over in her grave i f ahe
knew what he turned out to b#*" (El) This wes the end of
Hitler'a family U f a .
LATER a
' Shortly after hi3 mother's frnth the family broke up and
Adolph went to Vienna to moke hi a way 3ji the world &e hla father
had done before him* This was a a r l j in 19CM3* How much aOdey Iw
took with hill, i f any( Is n*t know* The records here are very
particularly sine* a l l biographers hevg gone on the nuppofli-

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hatJ'hift Mother died a year later th«i ahe actually did* Thi&
an entire /ear unaccounted for sines'the next thing we benr
of Adolpb^ he ha a again sppliad for sdaii salon to the exaci nations
for the j^cadeiny o£ ftrt- • One of the conditions for Tfr-expimlnatiun
was that ha submit to t4ia Board SODS of the ^ l n t i n g ^ he bad done
pr«Tiouely* Thifl he did but the Board fcfls not impressed f.ith them
and refused to allow hin to eater the examination. This, i t seems,
WAE flT«n a gre^tqr shoctc than h i s failure to paflfl tha eramlnations

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a year earlier* f
After he h«d received notification to the effect thnt hie
work irafi of such a nature that i t did not narrent his admission t o
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the second exABlnAtion, be int^rrlewad the Director. Ue claine
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that the Director told him that hie drawings showed clearly that
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hifl talents lay in the direction of architecture rather than pur*

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art and advised hi a to 3«ek admieaion to the ftrchitsgtural School,

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X This he applied for but was not admitted. According to

storjt because he had not eatiafactorily finished hie course In
tbe ftealschule* To be sure, this wae one of the general require-
ments but exceptions could be mftdn in the case of boys who showed
unusual talent- Hitler's rejection, therefore, wee on the grounds
of insufficient talent rather than Tor failure to complete hie
course.
Me was not without hoj>e* A31. his dreams of being fl
great flrtist seemed to be nipyed in the bud* He we a without money
and without Jtrienda+. We HSB forced -to go to work: end found &n-
ploynsnt as a helper on construction jobs. This, however, did not
suit him* friction developed between himself find hia fellow work-
men. I t seemn logical ^0 fiuppoee that he was working beneath h i s
clftfls and refused to Biwgl* with them for he- t e l l e us that hft.3#it
apart from the otheru and ate his lunch* Further d i f f i c u l t i e s d e -
veloped Inasmuch A* the workmen tried to convert him to A Marxian
point of view. Their attitudes end arguments jarred him since t h e /
were far from tê ideal Geraany thet had bocn portrayed byf his f a -
vorits Llnz t&ncher> Ludwlg Poetacb, eta Ardent German nationalist*
r found hiraflaif unable to answer their arguments.

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He
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the unplftaeant discovery that the workmen Jcoew njor* than he did. Mo
fundaaentally against everythlag they fluid but he was unable t o
h i s point of view on an intellectual l e v e l *- ha was et a
terrible disadvantage. In order to remedy the situation he began
rending t i l Jcinde of p o l i t i c a l pfimphleta ond Attendiri^ p o l i t i c a l
meetings but not with the idee of understanding the problem eo a
, which might have enabled him to form an intelligent opinion,

but to find arguflenta which would support his earlier conviction*

Tbifl ia a t r a i t that mas throughout his life- He never studies
to learn but only to justify *tet h& feeltu In other words, hifl
Judgments are based •holly on emotional factors and are then
clothed with an intellectual trgua&nt. Soon, he t e l l s Ufl, he
knew niore tijan they did about their own politics 1 Ideology and
wa* able to tell tham things about i t which they did not *[iow them-
It was t h i s , accord ing to Hitler, which antagonized the

against him. In any case, he was run off the Job with
the threat that tf ho nppenred ngiln they would push him off the
scaffold. This oust have be*n during the f i r s t hnlf of lttO9 when
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he was twenty years old. Without a job, he auik lower snd lower
in the social 3O(ile end E.% tines Mist have besn on Uie verge of
starvstioja. At times he found en odd Job auch a? carrying
anow or runnlue errands but P lnrga part of his £ime
ill Ureudlines or bagging on the £treels. In Ucvomber, 1909,
he ims ouet&d from hia room because he did not pay his rent and
WHB forced to fi*»k refuge in a flophouse. Here he mat Hainhold
Hanisch who was In much the seme predlcanfrnt* Tears l a t e r , Kaniflch
wrote e long book sbout hi.a aaa&cNations with Hitler during this
period. I t is a ^TUBBOU* atory of unbolierable poTerty, Hitlar
Jnuflt have be&a a fiorry eight during the&6 dfiys with 9 f a l l black
beard, badly clothed and a haggnrd loot. Hanlfich
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I t waa a miser able Ufe and I once
hin what he was really waiting for. The
answon *IdonTt know i^BelfT - I h&TO
nevar a«an such hopelepu lattin^ down in
distress,"
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4' Hnnisch took him In hand end encouraged him tp do atwie painting-
The difficult? ffas thfit neither one had the money with which to buy
materials* TThen Haniaeh discovered that Hitler had signed orer his
inheritance to hi a aiater, be persuaded Hitlar to write her mid ob-
tain /> email loon. This w*i6 presumably hia half-slater, Angola•
Whan tV: ™ney was received H i t l e r ' s f i r s t thought vas to take s.
week's vscptlon In order to recuperate* At this time h« moved Into
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the Moennerheiir Bi-lgltiennu whifih ffat slightly better than th& fXoj^
houses in which he hnd beon staying*
He and Hftalsch went into bueiiiess together. I t tras Hi-
ler'fl job to paint post c s r i s , postere r,nd water^colora infoicrh tton-
Iseh then took around Vienna and: peddled to a r t fianlera, furniture
etoros, etc* In tliis he lies quite successful but hia difficulties.
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• e r t not flt an &nd+ The moarv&nt H i t l e r ôt a l i t t l e money, h«? r e -
fuaed to work. HanJi£ch describee this vividly 1/
"But unfortunately HitJer was never an
worker* X often was.driven to despair by
bringing in order3 that he simply wouldn't
carry out- • I t Easter, 1910, we earned forty
kronen on a big" order snd we divided i t equal-
ly* The next norning, when,I came donateire
and aslcod for Hitler, I was told he had a l -
ready l e f t with Heunann, a Je**----After that
1 couldn't find him for « week* He nao &Lghp-
seeitt^ Vleuiia with Meunuuin and spent nuch of
the tine in the raueown. ffhen I asked him what •
the natter was find whether we *ero goiflg to
ke»p on working, he anflwered thftt he mqot r«-
euperste now, that he muat Jiave ^flome leisure,
that he *afi tiot f= coolie* When the ir*eh wna
over, he hftd no longer an/ aone/*"
At this time, Hitler vtm. not ft Jew-hatsr* There were a \

ntunber of Jew living In the Mne4£ Borne with whoo he wau on excellent
termd, Uodt of hia paintings were Bold to Jewish de«lera who paid
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j u s t afl much for them DO the Aryans. He alec adaired Rothschild
for sticking to his religion &ven i f I t prevented him from enter-
i court* During this time he also fieri t tuo poeteerdfl to Dr,
In Liii£t who jraa n Jew* Oup of these m8 jujst a picture
postcard of Vienntj the other t a copy which he had painted* .On

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both of them he" wrote of hiii deep gratitude to rthe doctor. This
i s mentioned beceusc i t i s on& of the very f e » c&3es of which we
have any record In which Hitler showed any lasting gratitude w
ing this time Hitler hims&lf looked v^ry Jewi&h* flnnisch writes:
^Hitler at that time loolCed very Jewish, 60
thet I often joked with Ma that he must be
of Jewish blood, since euch a ltirgs beard ,
rarely grows on a Christian's chin. Aleo
ha had big fact, SB a desert wanderer .mist
have." (73) *
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In aplte of his close Association with UnniBch the rela-
tionship ended in a quarrel, " Hitler accused Ban lush of
some of the money he had received for a picture* E& hac
arrested and appeared as e witness against hi»+ We have l i t t l e
knowledge of what happened to Hitler after this time* According to
Hanfstaengl the home in which Hitler lived has a reputation of be-

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ing a plate where homosexual ben frequently veat to find ccniopeiionu.
Jfihn flrtid that ho had information from a Viennese official that on

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the jK>lice record Hitler WKB listed SB fl sexiuri perv&rt but i t gave
' DO detP-ilfl of offenaea, I t ie possible that the entry a»y have been
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made solely on suspicion/ Sinone (467) cleims that the Viennese po-
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l i c e file in 1915 recorded a charge of theft againet Hitler DM that
he moved froc Vienrir: to Munich in order to avoid arreoU This rould
f i t in rith Hanfstaengl' • suspicion thet Hitler 1 ;; elder half-brother
(•ho was twice convicted for theft} wae in Viennn nt thnt time nnd
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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES -l£0-
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thet they may have become involved in some minor crira*
would, net be inpoEsihle for fianisch t e l l s uti that Hitler frequent-
ly spent his time figuring out shady vays of siting money. One
example may be of L i ^
.* "He proposed to- f i l l old tin cane vrith paste

and eell ttiea to £hopfceeper&, the paste to
- be smeared on windowpaue^ to keep them from
freezing in irinter.' I t AholiLd be told*.,*
in the summerj *hen i t couldn't be tried out*
I told him i t wouldn't work because the mer-
chants would Judt sttyi come back in the win-
ter* **• Hitler aDdwtred that one must po£&&B£
a, talent for oratory*™ r
Since Hitler co-Id only be brought to work when he was
actually hungiy ha spent a good deal of tine rording politicRI pan-
phlflte, sittiiig in cafe houses, reftding newspflpers rjyl delivering
.. apaechee to the other innatas of the hone* He bacsfuf a greet ad-

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ntlrer of Geore von tichoenerer and the Viennese Dfiyort Karl
I t was presumably frta then that he lerjned his anti-Semitism

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of the. tricks of fl Encceaaful poll tic ten* According to Had-
his companions nere greatly ainUOec by him and Often ridiculed
him and hie opiniojif* In &ny event i t EMBUS tlmt he got a good
denl of practice in speech naming during these years which stood
him in good stend later on. iVen in these days*" he-talked about
starting a new party,.
I t ia not clear why he renwijied in Vlennfi ej>d lived in
fluch poverty for five yews, whence had such fl diep lave for Cer-
mflny1 and could hrtve fioiie theru with relatively l i t t l e difficulty-
. . . . . . , <, . .
I t if also not clear rrhy ho went when he did unless there is some
truth in the supposition that he fled Vienna to avoid nrreet. Hifl
own explanation i s that he could not tolerate the mixture of people,'

p a r t i c u l a r l y t b t Jews and always cuare Je*3» and eayfl t h a t for hia
Vienna i s the flyabol of i n c e s t .
But a a far as Jit t i e r i s concerned thiti tiiae was not
Aa he looks bocfa over that period he can fl'ty:
"So in Ik few years I b u i l t a foundation

ofknowledge from .which X a t i l l draw
t o d a j . " (BK 29)
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"At t h a t titw I formed an image of the
world- and it view of l i f # which becrjne
the granitu foundation for my
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In Uunlch before the war, thing6 were no b e t t e r for hip*
Ao far as poverty ia concerned he might as well have stayed in
no.* UB earned a l i t t l e money pAlnting pofitcarde and posters and
Umac painting ELOU£Q3. Early In 1913 ^s Want to Salsburg to
for duty i n t^fl ancy but wa:i "rajflctfld on tha grounds of poor phyel
cal condition* Ha returned to Munich and continued to work a t odd
Jobs and sit In cafe houses where ha.spent hia time reeding
pers. Nothing of which we hnvm any knowledge happened duriig thi3
time which is particularly pertinent to our present study- The proa-

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pects of ever naking anything out of himself in the future ioudt have
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been very black At that time* - * •
Then caae the World Far. , He writes of tbic
"The struggle of the year 1914 nas forsooth,

not forced on th# juae .as, but deslrad by the
Hhole peopl*, 11
"To myself ttiose hoturc c u e l i k e a redemption

from Lthe vex&ti&ue experience & of TBJ youth*
Evan, to thle d«v I an cot aahsmed to &ay t h a t ,
in a transport of enthusiasm, I Sank down Oil
my kneed sad thanked Heaven trom MI overflow
ing heart--**"
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On Autftiet 5, 1914, Hitler joined a Ba>arlcn retflmeut
a volu;it«ir. During the f i r s t daya of the' imr his regiment Suf-
very heavy losses and was not partiCUIATIJ popular among the
people. Hitler becflffe an orderly in Regimental
ters as m i l as n runner. The one thing thfit a l l his comrnd&a
cented on w&s hia subservience to. superior officere. I t seems that

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he went out of h i s way to .court, their good graces t offering to do

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t h e i r washing and other menial taska Docuch t o t h e dicgust of Ki'fi

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He ma6 h&t popular with the othtr men and always reu&lnod
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aloof frojD than. "bThfin tie did jiin ttiem he usually barpjigtied about
politienl • a t t a r s - During the femx years of war he received no
packages or mall froci auyona* ID this he wau unique. At Christmas
time*when everyone else WRB receiving gifta end mefiflagefi he i?ith-
drew from the group and suited moodily by hiaaelf. When bis cam-
rad«c encouraged him to join the group and phare their packagns
T. r v ' i
-hfl refueed* On October 7t 1916, he w£S wounded by fl piece of
nel and sent to a hospital* I t was A li^ht wound! nnd he wnfl eoon
discharged and Bant ta Uunlch as a replaceinent# After two days
there he wrote hie comnandi^g officer t Captain Vledenann^

that he bg roinattte'd in his regiMnt because hfr could not
Munich when he knew hifl comrades irere at ths Front* *ffiedemannhad
him returned to the regiment where he renal nod u n t i l October 14th
when he was exposed to mustard gas and sent to a hospital in P-nsa-
He was bllhd and* according to Frledslinde Waguer, loot
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It-seen s thflt n^yetery bltraya follows H i t l e r . His career
in the arany is uo exception. Ihare are eerarnl things that
never been satisfactorily explained* the first is that he -jpent

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four years in the suine regiment but cab never advanced beyond the
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rank of First Glass Private or Lance Corporal * The second i s the

Iron Croea Flrflt Class which ha constantly w*arat Tbie has be«a
w I
the topic of much diocufi3±on but the mystery haa never been solved*
There i s no mention of thb award In tha history of his regiment*
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nils ie rnthflt amazing inasmuch ae other awards of this kind are
i,
listed* Kitlor is isentioned^n a number of othar corniecticriB but.

pot la this one, elthough i t ie allfrfi^ that i t we a awarded to
for capturing twalve^ftreDcbmeJi, including an officer, sin
Thie i s certainly ;io ordinary feat in M13T regiment and one would e i -
pect that i t would a t lwist w r i t ao»e mention, particularly in via*
of the feet that Hitler bad considerable fame ac a politic!tn Then
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the b&ofc went to press* '.

The Nazi propaganda agencies have not helped to clarify
the situation* Wot <}nly hftvt a number of different versions of the
stc*y appeared in the preae, but €abh gives a different nuinbe? of
Frenchmen he i s alleged to have capt.urad. They haw ftlfio published
alleged facsimiles of his w&V record which do,not agree. The
l i n Illmstrierte Zeitwg of August 10, 193B printed a facsimile in
r
which the'date of award for this decoration was clearly August 4,

1918, Yet the Yoelkisetae Beobachter of Aufjuat 14 > 1954 had pub-
lished * facsimile in which the date of award wfls October 4* 131B*
•
Although theee alleged facsimilea mentioned other citations they

did not include the date of award of the Iron Grose Second Qaafl,
From all that can be lesrued the First CIPOS Croos wac never
unless the recipient had already been awarded the tteconoV
oration*
Juot what the factii are I t ifl impossible to

I t ia Alleged that his war record haa been badly tampered i l t h and
, r
that TOU. Schleicher wae eliminated during the Blood Purge because
he knew the true fsc'tfi. Straaser who served In the s.nm& divi&ion
has probably as good an explanation as any* Ee flays that during
the laet months of the war there ware so HGJIJ First Clccs Cro£5*s
being given out that Genar.'jl Heed quarter £ irefl no longer able to
paae on the flerita of each individual, cafie- To Jfacilitdts matt«rd
a number of these decorations w»re allotted to each r e g i o n t
tenth to be Issued by tha Cofona&ding Officers. Tljoyîn ttirn,
t i f i e d the Hifch CoaunAnd of the award and the deed wbicfc merited i t -
According to StrnBPer, *h&n the anay began to.collEpê, the Regi-
f • ^
•eatal HeadCiiiartere had in thsir paBflefifiiou a nunb«r of decorationB

which had not been awarded* Since few member e of the Headquarter a
• •
Staff ever recalled an award of this type they took advantage of

the general melee and gave thefr to each other and forced the signa-
ture" of the conunahdiij£ offio«r in sending i t to the High CouuAnd,
•
The thing that srpenka in favor of this explanation 1B the curious

bond which exists between Hitler and hie regimental^ ae
Mai Amaiid who was later to become the head of the flazi Eher
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TbJ.fi ia ofle of the mo&t lucratiTe position* in the entire

hierarchy and Anmnn wac called to the" position by Hitler*.
The only eiplnnatioit for the lack of promotion thet has
been published is the cogent of one of hie of fie era to the effect
that ha would never Hake a noa-fromiscloned officer "out of that
•
neurotic fellow, Hitler*, {tauochning (947J giYeo a dlffarwit explon-

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atioo. Bo clelj»a that ft high Wasi had once confided in hin thet'he
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nfld e
lr * e n Hitler'a military record and that i t contained an iten
of a court martial which found him g u i l t y of pederastic
with an officer, and that It m s for thin reneon that he wns

t
promoted, Kftuscbiiing also claina that in Kunich tti tier was found
g u i l t y of a Tiolfltion of paragraph 17S which deals wltu pederasty,

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Ho other evidence of either of these two'charges has been found.
TEle mystery becomes even deeper when we learn ffora a
greet many Informants that Hitler wan quite courngeouB eitd never ,
tried tp evade dflnêroua apaigxmieDtB, I t la s.iid that he was im-, '
usually adept at running end then f a l l i n g or s » k i r g shelter ihen
the fir& became intense. It alfio eeomo tliflt he was fllwnyn ready to
for ap&cinl Bflsigments ftod was consldared exceedingly
i a the performance of a l l his. duties by his own officers-

I t naj be well to mention at t h i s point that nhen Hitler
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entered the anay he again became a member of a recogni&ad ?nd r » -

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apect«d Aocifll institution* JJa longer did he have to stand in

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breadline a or 3o«k shelter in f lophoueafi. For the f i r s t t l a e since

h i s mother died did he really belong to a group of p*t>ple* Wot only
idid t h i s provide him with B aenee of pride and eeturity but «t last
, he had achieved hia grep,t asbition, namelj'> to be united pith the
Gemtun nation. I t ia also interesting to note e acmeiderahle chnnge

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In h i s appearance, Ffron the dirty, graney, enst-off clothes of Jews
end other charitable people he waa now privileged to wear a uniform*
itend (£09j p one p£ hi& codiradefi, t o l l s us that when Hitler oawe out ^
of ttft t n a c i u a or baok from an assigiuii«»t he spent hours cla?ming hie
, uniform ami boots until he became the joke of tilt reginent* Quite a
{ _ rasarkablo change for one who for almost seven years refused to
e i e r t hlbuLf just n l i t t l e in order to pull himself out of thft
p i t i f u l conditions in which ha lived among th« dregs of
POST-ffAH
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Then cane tha armistice sna fill this was over.
Hitler, from fl psychological paint of view, n&s in exactly the
same position AS the.one in nhich he found himself eleven years-

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before when bip Bother died- He faced the future Aloue. The
bid home for four years, wun breakix.g up*. Ag*ift he stood aloije be-
fore a disjifel future - a world i n irhich he could not find & niche,
a worli^ which did not caê For him, q world of aimless existence
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fraught with harduhips. It was wore than be could face*

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Where to go end wtant to do. Hairing no hone or fflittily to
f greet him he returned to Munich not because i t had been kind to him
in the poet but because he hod no other place to £<?• Efe co^ld tfifce .
jip hie l i f e agflin where he had l e f t off fflur years e a r l i e r . He wan^
dered around Munich for a short tisae - a stray dog looking for a nat-
ter" * Than i t la reported that ha went to ViecuiA to v i s i t his half*
BiJter, Angelnt with rtiotn he had had contact for many years. If he
1
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" actually made thip trip he did not etey long for Soon we find him in
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the reserve aray, stationed in Traunatein. * Ua ia in fl daep depr«s-

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F
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eion. He wears tha uniform andJ eate the food of tho are^. It i s
hie only roc our us And he Btayfl on there in t h i s capacity until April,
1910, when the camp i s broken up, Jl« then returned to Uunich s t i l l
attachfld t o the army-and l i v i n g in the barr&aka, 0urine thio time ha
fieems to have continued hie p o l i t i c a l dlacuosloi.s *ith his comrades
Elding with the Social Democrats against the ComMuniHte* According to

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4' -• the Uuenchener Post he Actually affiliated himaelf with the

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Democratic Party [483^- ' After the counter-revolution every tenth

man in the barracks was shot but Eli tier wa£ tingled out baforaliand
and A3kad to stand one side. At the inquiry be appeared before the
with •charge-llste" againPt SOBS of hifl comrade & which can
signify denmtclatioj-B for Cowwiiotic activities* Ha tia*
on his comrades and now atsigned then to*the executioner.
In UEIN KAiSFFhe refers to this occupation *u* h i * "first Bore or
political activity*•
The Arny now undertook to educate i t s soldiers in the pro—
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per p o l i t i c a l philpsopay aj»d Hitler w^s fiBÎgr.ed to euohrA course*.
Ha Bpoke 5O ably in this group thftt hi3 talent for spavklng impreS-
•
ff
sed (in officer who vae preêjit'and Hitler ^L& appointed education
officer". Ki£ hour had struck - be was discovered nad fljhpretiatad,
eineled out for his t d e n t * He threw himself Into this work with
great enthusiasm nlwft/s speaking to larger groupa. His1 confidence
grew with bis success in &waylti£ people^ He was on-h.ia WHJ- to b e -
come a politician * From here on his career Is a matter of history
and no*tl not be reriowed here*
This lfl the foundation of Hitler's char fitter, flhntpver
• •
he tried to ba afterward e ia only fluper-structure and the supor-

structure can be no firmer than the fourvdatlona on which i t r e s t s .
The highor it r goes the more unstable i t becomes - the more i t needs
to,be propped up and patched UII in order to nako i t hold together*
•
This i s not an easy Job4 I t requires,constant vigil«nce t etrong de-

fense F ^jnd hflfiTy IDS a as in tiioe and energy. *
There was unanimoLia a^rflfliaejit among the four psychcajoalyate
*
:
•ho have studied the naterip.l that Hitler la an hysteric border-

log on schizophrenia and not a paranoiac as i£ so frequently sup-
•
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posed. Tfci.6 Means t h a t he i a not insane in the coknttOAl^ nccspted
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aenae of the term, but neurotic* He has not l o s t complete contact

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; -\ * . w i t h the world about hid and i s s t i l l atriving to make some kind

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of psychological adjustment which-will (five him n feeling of secur-

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i t y in hie soeinl group* I t also n&anB t t o t the e ia e definite
moral component in h i s charnctet no (natter how deeply i t may be
buried or how seriously i t hac boon distorted*

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With this diagnosis astcbliahed,' ire are in JI position to
niflke ft Duaber of ettrHiis«3 concerning the couseioufi uental profiftsae.fl
whiph opdiaarllj tnke pldea in H i t l e r ^ mind* These form the

of thft "Pitier™ he consciously knowa and iBiist liTtt wjttlw It
.-- '•• y
a
irt a l l protobility P*t happy "Hitlar" but onfi harra^sed by
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fears, amdetles^ doubta, aiegiviiLgfl, untertaintieflt condemnations,
feelings of lonaliness and of guilt* From our experience with other
hysterics we are pbobabljr on firm ground when we suppose that Hitler*a
nind la like a "battle-royal 1 * »oet of ths^tijM with nany conflicting
and contrVictory forces vnd iouuleee pulling hits thio wwy aaA that*
Such a state of confusion ia not easy to bacr. Hlfl
»r« absorbed in wrestling with hiaself inatofid of fltriTing for
cationfl in the external world which he wants and needs* HB sees the
nee nib i l i t i e s a l l around him but he can rarely ouster enough energy to
nuke the effort to go flfter thea, fearfl, doubts and Implications ob*
struct hio thiiikin^ and acting and he becomes lndeciaive and wind& up
doing nothing but wishing. Vicarious gratifications through fonto si* a
•
\ beco»e substitutes for the sati sfacti on obtained fron re*l

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f , nents* Tfe tfust suppose that this la the fltata that Hitler tau in
•
during the seven yours that elXpe«d betwMn the death of hi* pother
and the outbfe&k of the war when he WAS wasting hi£ tiae lying
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nroxmd in flophouses and s i t t i n g IJP cafes in Fiamm, Or.ly when hi*

hiitiger became acute couj-d h& mister the energy necessary to
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hintaelf to fl fe.v hours of wo^k. As soon as this hunger was
;
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tlB laps&ti back into his form&r fltateof procrastination and

sioh.
We Bust as&una thftt thn periods of procrastination at the

present ttm& have'a slnilar origin, Hs withdraws from society, i s
nnd dnwdlef; away hifi tine until ^the situation beconeft
•
then hft forces hijneelf to action, li* Forks for s t±*»

eod as Boon as tb* job ,is tindarway "tie loses interest in i t " and
ellpc. bnck into his leisurely lif^ in ^rhitih he doea nothlcg
J. •• y
what he is forced to do or iLkes tt> ^Qt Mow, of course, i t i s no
logger huiiêr that drives him to work but another notice, even
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powerful, of which he -xa not fully conscious* Thfe nEture of this
be discussed in tha iteptt section,
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As one surrey e Hitler 1 ^ behavior patterns ^ a A bie close
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observe thetnf _bne êts "the distijict impression that this

i s not one person but two mhith inhabit the came body and alternate
end forth - The os.e i s a very soft, sentimental and indeclsivo
1
k
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d i ,
who has, l i t t l e drive pjid wants nothing ûite fto much as '
to be aauaad, liked" and'looked after* The other1 is Just the opposite -
hard* cruel and-decisive tfith ansabundant reservoir of energy a t hie
•
command - who knows Tihat he wante nnd ia ritudy to ga sftei 1 i t nnd get
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i t regftrdJeao of costs* I t is the first Ritler who woapa profuse-

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ly at the death of his canarj; and the second Hitlar who eriea in
open court; "Heads will r o l l " . I t i s Ui* f i r s t Hitler who can-
not bring himself to discharge an assistant and i t i s the second
Hitlar who can order thfl Murder of hundreds including hiE befit .
friend a end cen say with gr*et convict! cm "There will be to ps^-ce
in the lend until * body hanga froa e?&ry laap-poat*11 I t i s the
f i r s t Hitler TIIIO spends hifl ev&nlngs Hatching ffiovlen or £oirg to-
cabarets dud i t ie the second Hitlar who works for days on end with
l i t t l e or no ffl&ep, oalcitig plane which will affect the destiny of
Until we undaratand th# magnitude rtiid implications of

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duality In hie, nature *e can never understand his actiona. It Is a
•
kittcl of. "Dr. Jelcyl «ad Jlr. Hy^te" persoiiAlIty atructurft in which two
wholly diffarent t radtcfll o a c i l l a t l o n s tik*i plcr^ ^n-.J'-nakn the p^r-
son almost unrecogniiabls* Thia c>uiJ*actei"tatic> t a o , i s comnion l o
nany hystarlea, Ohdar theea cirmip^tancea i t i e extremely d i f f i c u l t

to predict from moment to moment idjat his reaction* to fl given aituo-
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tion ere going t o be. An i l l u a t r n t i o n Bay be hftlpful> According to
Russell (740) etftravagpuit preparatlonfl wei^ 4ad« for the comneura-
t i v e service? for the (JerFiftiia who died when tha battlasJiip Deutflchland
waa.bombed. H i t l e r spoke lou£ And passionately t o thoue attendin%,
a£ wîl aa oT-?r the radio- I t was then arranged t h i t he should walk

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<i own the line of uurvivara and review tha infantT7 and naval units
•
drawn up at attention* hensreel camernmea w^re stationed r=t a l l cru

cl.il poltita-i -*
r
lf
The fIrat widow to whom Hitler spoke a
fcorda cried violently. Her ch-ild, rtho
10 yeara old *nd nfto stood nest to hiu be-
r a t e d mother, began to cry heaxtrendinglyi
Hitler patted him on the he^d mod turned un-
certainly to the Jteitan line* Before be
could apauk A nord, he was euddeoly overcome*
He apufl completely around, left the carefully
pTBjiflred progrftu f l a t . Followed by his ut-
terly surprised Compuniona be walked as f&at
as bj& could to hie car end hed hljiself ^lîve^
away froo the parflde
m
This sudden alternation fron one to the other ie not uneora-

BOC. ^ CX934 associates commented &n i t tine nnd tim*
(16C) writs a t
tines when be gave nn

of unhapE>Lne££, of lonoline^, of inmrd
f »But Xn A moment, ha would turn
to whateTar frenzied task.*, irith
swift comaflnd of H DLHH born for
(265) t •
"Alaoat onytiiing tight flu^denly e hit

vruUl ajld hatred-..*But Uis trans
ition froB AJiger to or an-
thustaem bight be quite audden."
(753) writes: '
eyes, soft and! dmeaay a.3 ha opote to

me, suddenly flashed snd hftrdenod...•
(691} saySt •
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"doss collaborators for many ysars sriid that
Hitl*r wflii Always like thi& - the alights at
difficulty or ot&tacle could mnkfr him Mrenm'
witi rage or burst into" tears,"
haa cpmneht<id upon the duality of Hitler 1 !! character pnd hsa
that ths procrastinating aide le "Hitler * while the fiery
which erupta rrojDtime t o ' i i a a is the Fuehrer, tiA^K
this rafiy not ba Btrictlj true from A psychological point of view, i t
nay be helpful to think of then in th<iflp, terns •

There Xa not, however, a complete dissociation of tha
personality. ID such a case we would expect to find the. personali-
t i e s alternating with ench other luite beyond the voluntary control

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of tho individual* This ia claarly not fahe case with Hi tie* who can
adopt either role aore or l e s s at w i l l . At l e a s t , he Is able, on

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occasion, to induce the Fu&hrer personality to cone into existence

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when the occasion demands* This ia what he doev At almost every
speech- At the. beginning as we hare mentioned he i£ nervous and
insecure on the platform• At times he ha& considerable d i f f i c u l t y
in finding anything to say, Thie i s "Hitler". But under these

•• -m - m
eircunetaiicee the "Hitler" jaereonfility doe? not usually predomin-
ate for ajiy length of time. As soon a a he gets tha feel of tha
audience the tesapo o* the speech increases and the "Fuehrer" per-
bonality begins to H^sert i t s e l f . Heiitun âyai "The atrena of

him like a stream of water stiffens a bade.11 As ha
ha aoducee hiafiel/ into believing that he ie aolually and
fundament ally the "rushr^r11, or ae Hauscbning (ESS) 3«ysi "He
do**e himself with the morphine of hi a oiirt Verbiage -11 It i& this
tranafortwtiou, of the l i t t l e Hitler into the great ftiehrer, which

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takes place under th& eye& of hi a audlance which probably fasclnatee
them. By complicated poychological proceaaea they are able to

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Identify theaB&Lvaff with bin ftnd aa the epaach
are temporarily trnnaforued aal
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He mist also undergo a tranfifpupation of this Itind whan he

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to. expac&trl to cake a decifllori or take definite action*

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AB we
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( - seen, Hitler procrastinates until the aituatioa becomes dangeroqs

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intolerable. When he can procrastinate no longer, he i s able to in*
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duee tha Fuehrer personality to assart itself* Rauschning ho.3 put

this wellt
l a languid and apathetic by nature

and needs the stimulus of nervous e i -
ei tern*; it to rou&& him out of chronic
lethargy to a spasmodic activity** [£6B)
"Be fora Hitler can net he nuat In eh him-
out of lethargy and d&ubts Into 6
)
Having lashed himself into this etate of wind he can play
the "Fuehrer™ to perfectl&iu When tha transfer-nation takeu place
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• in his personality a l l hie Tiowfl, aentiaenta anH values are also

transformed. The result is thftt as- ^Fuehrer" he can make s t a t e - '
meats with great con fiction whiah flatly contradict what "Hitlar" t.
SAld 6. fev: ninutea e a r l i e r . He can grappla Fith tha most important
problaros and in a few; minute a reduce: thym to extremaly ai^ple tariaa,
V
ha can m^p out campaignfi^ ba the Supreme Judge, deal with diplomats,
ignore e l l ethical nm\ moral principals a F ordar eocacutlcrca or the
destruction of c i t i « s without th# slightcot haaitdtion. And he can
b# in the bust of humor while he is doing i t . till of thio would
haw. been completely impossible for "Hitler"*
Hitler likes to believe that this la bio true ealf and he
has medeenery effort to convince the ftfenrai people that i t i s
only aalf, Bnt I t la an art if ac a. Tha whola nFuehrarIt peraonality
lc a grosely exaggerated and distorted ccncaptlon of ibaeculinlty at
Hitler co&caivee it# Undoubtedly ho would like to be fluch a person
•
in r&ality and balieven that he actually i s tbfit pereou - but he d*-
calves himself« This pare Duality shows o i l the eHr-mjirka of 9. reac-
tion, formation which has bean created unconsciously as a
1 i ,
and cover-up for daepJjlflg tendencies which ha deapiee&. ThiB

mechanism is Ferj- frequently found In hy&terlci and always serves
the purpose of denying the true flolf by creating aa image which is
•
diametrically opposite and than Identifying with the Image* The
greet difference betwoea Hitler find thQiteandfl of other hysterics

•
i s that he managed to convince railllanja of other people that, the
image i s really hiaself - The aore he was able to con vines thea, the
aora h* bftOane conylsicod of i t hlnaolf on the theory t o e t eighty
million Germans can't bo nrong* Arid Do he has fallen in loTft.wit^
the inage he, himself, (jrentrf and does hie Qtaoat to forget that
• •
behind It there i e quits another Hitler •ho 5-a * v*ry deapicfible

fellow.
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Be ia hardly more succesjiful in thia nanouvre than any
otter hysteric* Secret fear3 and anxieties that beli# the reality
of thft imape keep cropping up to ahake his confidenco. acd s&etirlty-
H* way rationalize these fearu or difiplaca them but they eoiÛnufl
to hicunt h±n)t Underneath, Hitler i s £ bundle of fes>6* Some are
at leaet ptrtifilly j u s t i f i e d , others Beem to be gromidlees^ For
eiflaple, he has hfid a fear of cflucer for many years; Ordinarily ha •
fear a that li* has a canc*r in hi? stomach aince he i e always both-
ered with indignation. The neourHdcos of hip doctors are a l l to no
avail* K few year a ago a simple potyp grew oil hU larynx* Infiedl^
ataly his fear shifted to the throat and heTOGsure that he b&4 dmr
r
s l o p e d a throat cancer, then Dr* voa Eictan diagooaed i t ae a
aip.iU polyp, Hitler nt f i r s t refused to believe him*
' Then h4 has faara of being poisoned, fours of being aesaa-
inated, fears of loulng his health, fearo of gaining wsight, fatra

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of treason, fears of losing his nyetical guidance, fears of eneethe-

, fears of premature death, fears that hifl mission will not
be f u l f i l l e d , etc* &r»ry conaftlvable precaution n u t be taken
to reduce theae dangers, real aud .iiuglned, td a uiniina. In later
ybELTs, the fanr of betrayal ant) poo Bible assassination by one of
hi a associated sterna to have grown considerably, Thy a sen (308)
tbnt i t has reached the point whare he no longax trusts th& .
* Frank {£££) reports that even the gen&rale muet aurrazider
their awards before they, axe admitted into'cDnTerai^c*s with hini '
Sleep ife no longer a refuge from hi a fanrfl. He wak*e bp
in the night shaking rind dcra/iming. Kauschning clnims that on^ of

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Hitler £ close aaaociateB told him thatt
"Hitler makes a t night irith con^jlftlv* shrieks;

shouts for h&lp* He a i t s on the edtê of hifl '
IT unable t o atir* Be shaken with fonr,
tha iriiola bed vibrate * H& snout a con-
, unintalligible yhraaes* He gafipa, as i f
himself to be eiiffoca ting. On one oc-
cation Hitlar. stood epeying Irt hta roooi,
ihg wildly about hiffl* *Ifet Hot U«'fi boen
he £&£ped4 Kifl l i p s wore blue, £waa"t
down his face* Eujdauly he began td ra*l off
figures, and odd words, and broken phraies, en-
t i r e l y devoid of s#nm* I t aounded horrible.
Ha ufffld Btranêly coipoaad and e n t l r e l j un-
Geroan vord-formatioas. Then be stood s t i l l ,
only hid lij>6 norinf î*#^ben be euddsol^ broke
out - 'Thare, therel' I B the cornerI Who's*
thfttif1 He stamped aid shrieked in- the f a v i l i a r
)
Zeisaler (925} also reports such incident EN It would do»o that ttlt-
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lar*s late hour aftâvery likely due to the fact thftt be la afraid
to go to sleep*
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Tha result of theae f s a r e , && i t i s with aJoaoat every
teric> la a narrowing of the world in which he livea* Haunted

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ttl$3a f&arc, he difltnjGtfi everyone, er«n thoas d o east to him. H#
cannot establish aiyr close friend ships for fear of being betray ad or
being diacovarad as he really l a . As hlfl world becomes more &bd more

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clrcumberlbad he becomes lonelier and lonelier. He feels
to be a c^ptiv* odd often compares his l i f e with that of the Pope
(Hanfat&engl, 912)* Fry (£77) flaja, "spiritual loneliness Bust
be Hitler'a secret regret", and von Wiegnnd (491) writes:

"Perhaps the snow-cromieti peaks of the Alps
glistening in the Eoonlight remind Adolph
Hitler of the glittering but cold, lonely
heights of fajise nnd achievement to whiih ho '."
ha a climbed * r I an the l o n e l i e s t nan on
earth 1 he soi<l to 'an employe* oJT his
h aa,"
sxe not discouraged by a l l this* On
the contrary, they ijitarpret their fofli-e as proof of their own im-
portance;'rather than aa eigua of their fundamental ifeoknesa. Aa
H i t l e r ^ persanal world, becomes emoller he must axtami thfi bound-
aries of hia physical domainfl*. Jfoeowhile, h i s image of htJueeLf

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evermore inflated in order to conpetisate for hi a deprl-
and the nalLtejiaiice of hifl rupreAaioji^, Ha mtis-t build
bigger ana better buildings, bridges, stadia and nhat not, ao tengi-
bio synbols of hi a ptower and gr&atnefib and then uue these &e e v i -
dence that he really ia, mhr.t he w^nts to believe he is* ^ I
There 1B, however,, l i t t l e gratification in a l l t h i s , "Mo
*att#r what he,achiaT*fl or what he does i t is never fluffipieat to
him that things are what they flWai to be. He is
nnd nuflt bolster up his super ^structure by n^-
and aore defen$ep. But the,nooce he gets and the higher he builds,
the more he ties to worry about and defend. He le caught In a vicious
circle> like eo aany other hysterics, which erowa bigger and bigger
afr tlaa goos on but never brings theta the sense of security
above eTerything e l s e .
The reason for this la that they Are barking up the
wrong tree. The security they AOBIC l a not to be found in tha out-
side world but in themselves. Had they conquered their own uneo-
cinl lnpulsef, their real enemy, when they ware youngs they would not
need to strurgla with auch subterfuges when they axe mature- The
dangers they feflr in the world around thoBi ftre only the shadows
of the danger* they fe&r will creep up on them from within i f they
do nut naiutain a strict TigiJ«nc# or&r their actions* Denying

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doea not armiliilatfl than*. Llka termites, thay gnaw awey at the
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foundations of the personality tiid the higher the superstructure i&

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built^ the sbakier i t becomes*
In nost byatftrics, these unôcl^l impulsed, which they
regard a& danger a, bflT* b*an fnirly 3ucces»rully ropreased. TK^
individual feala himself to be despicable without bîng COLLS clous
of the vhy* and vterofcirea of thi& feeling * The origins of the
feeling renmin almobt wholly unconscious or are camouflaged in

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such a ways that they" are not obvious-to the indlTldujd himself. In
Hitler's case, this i s not so - ftt l e a s t not entirely. He has good
causa for feeling deaplcoMe and he knows why* The repression I4
h i s case mas not completely flueceflfiful and some of thft unsocial
tendencies do from tine to time a 3 cert then selves and demand sat-
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lefaction.
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Hitler e êacunl l i f e has etlvays bean the topic of ouch
speculation* As pointed out in the previous aeation, t g s t of his
Closest assoclateo nra ftbaolutsly ignorant on this subject* This
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has led to conjectures of n i l sorts. Some believe that, he t& en-
t i r e l y inuflune frota such impulaes* Save believe that be ia a chronic
nutftturb&tor* SOB* believe that be derives hid sexual pleasure

through voyeurlQB. Many believe th*t he is completely iapotant.

Others, and th&&& aro pfcrhape In tha najority, that he ifl
. I t i s probably true that ha Is iapotent but he is
not hOBoftexual in the ordinary aence of the term* " Hi a per-
version hdfl quite.a different nature which f*w have tfiasseA* He
ie an extra«e maBOchiflt *ho deriyefi asxu&X p 1ft&sure£roa hndng a
• h
woosn aquat over him whiln she urinates or defecates on hia face *
(Strasaer, 919] &ea ideo, 951, B5£)*
Although this perversion i s not a common cna, i t is not
unknown ID clinical work, ^ r t i c u l a x l y in Ho Incipient 3t*^B.
The four t&llabopatore on thla study, in addition to Dr, Be Kaue-
snre *io learned of the perversion from other aourcftc, have all
had experience with cases of thifl tyi». All five agree that thfr
information as given ifc probably Vne in view of their clinical e i -
perieuce And their icaowledga *>f flitlar1* cbaraetBir. In the follow^
ing auction further eriitencfl pf i t s validity will b# cited* At tha
present noment i t is sufficient to recognize the iiifluence that thi
perversion mi&t have an the conscious w n t a l Ufa of flitler*
•
Unquestionably Bitler haa fluffer«J severe guilt rae
*Hotau There My ba some people who would question the reliability

of sny information given bx Otto Streaser bflcause of bis repu-
tfltioa. i t la perhaps because of hie reputation that he oaa»
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by this inforwtlou which ha& be*n ô carefiill/ guarded. He
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alao the interviewer with a great deal of other

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uaUoa conc*niliiE Hitler which checksd very closely with that '
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of other informants. Ao far as thio study ia concerned we

h»Te DO reaeon to qnntioD bla sincerity,
hifl perverse tendencies* Ta can easily imagine intermin-
able struggles with his conscience which incapacitated bin to a
considerable extent. Surely Hitlar has ecct&rndli&ed Tile own

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problem and i t s euppowd solution whan ha writes:

n
CrJy when the tine comes' whan the race i s
no longer ovwrqhadowsd by the consciotis-
ness of i t s own g u i l t , than I t will
internal peace nnd external energy to
down reg&rdleaply and brutally the
flhoota, and to pull up the wftwds."
and againt
•Wa mist be ruthlaa^*i.*W« miat regain our

clear conscience as to ruthlea^nesa.*x*
Only thus shall WA purge our people of
their softness tad sentimental Pnllifiti-
aiflja, and their deganerat* delight In
b*et
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PART V
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AMD RBC0HSTRUCTI01
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world has COM to know Adolph Hitler for bin
greed far power t bis mthleasneBfl, cruelty and
utter lack, of feeling, hie contempt for established insti-
tution* and his lack of uoral re P train ttu ID the course of
relatively far yearn he hea contrived to usurp iuch tremendous
power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations
were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance
of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered mil lion a
of people without even firing a shot* When the world
tired of being frightened and concluded that i t was oil ft
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bluff, ha initiated the most brutal and devastating war 1A

- a war wnieh, for a tiiw, threatened the
of our civilization* Human life and human
to leave this individual completely untouched as be plungaa
along the course he t el loves be waa predestined to take*
' Earlier in his earner the world had watched hi* with
;. Many people refused to take hiio oerioualy on the .s
that "he could not possibly last", Aa on* action after ,
another mat with aliasing SUCCABB end the woaeure of the man
became more obvious, thip amuoemant wa& tranaforsed into
lncredulousnftae * To moat people i t Beamed inconceivable
such things could Actually happen In our modern civilisation*
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•, tho leader of thqsa activities, became generally regarded

as a u&tiaan, if not inhuitan* Such /a eonclu*ion, concerning th*
nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory from the point of view
of the aan J.& tha street. It gives hi* 4 feeling of oati*fac-

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tiou to pigeon-hole an Incomprehensible individual in one

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category or another* Having classified hi* in thio way, ha

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feels that the problen la completely aolv«a, ill w& need to
do 1» to eliminate the madman from the scene of

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replace hin with a sane Individual, and tha world! will again
return to a normal and peaceful state of

Thifl naivB visit, however, i s wholly inadequate for
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tho&e who are delegated to conduct the war against Oarsaiqr or

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for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when
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the war ie over. They cannot content thepflalvea with simply
^ regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning hi* to an
Sternal Hell In order that the reaaindor of the world nay liv*
in peace and quiet* They will realise that the madueas of the
Fuehrer has become the sadneaa of a nation, If not of a large
part of tha continent * rhoy will realise that the Be ara not
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wholly the actions of a a ingle individual %ut that s reciprocal
relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and thai
the nadneBa of the one stlnulatea ana flows into the other and
vice versa* It was not only Hitler, the madjaan, who created
German oadneasr but GernaiL madness which eraated Hitler. Hayii
created hlx as it* ppokesnan and leader, i t hao bean carried
along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the polat where i t

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was originally prepared to go. Never theleea, It continue a %o
follow his lead In apite of the fact that it Muat be obvious t*
all Intelligent people now that hie path leads to Inevitable

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From a scientific point of new, therefore, we era

to consider Hitler, -the Fuehrer, not ae a personal
wicked u bia action* and philosophy nay bo, but as the
of n ttate of aicd existing In millions of people, not only In
Gernnny but, to a wnallar degree, in all civilised countries.
To remove Hitler nay be a neceflfiary flrat Atap, but it would not
b« tha cur«. It would be onalofoua to curing an ulcer without
treating the underlying diaeaee* If similer eraptioae are to
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be pi^Tfentfid in the future t we usmot oont«nt ourflelvec with

ilmplj roitoTlng tha overt unif4Bt«tioiia of the dieefise. On
the coatrarj, we miat ferret out, and seek to correct the under-
lying factor o which produced tha unwelcome phentnaiioru We
mist dificovar the pojnchological' stnaawB which nourish thin
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d«atructiv« atate of nlnd in order that we tiay djlTiart then into

channel a which will pemit, a further evolution of our fom of
civilisation, .
Thai pr«uut study ifl concerned wholly with Bdolph
Hitlfljf and the aocifll force a whl,cb lxpiAsed upon hi* in the
course of his development and produced the BAD we know. 0 » ,
question the wisdom of studying the pBychologj of a single
i f the present war represents a rebellion by a
^ TQ uuderatasd the one doe a
aâinat our t . \ • -
not t a l l us Anything about the' million* *f others • In A aeon

thla ie perfectly true* In the process of growing up we ara
a l l faoed with highly indixidufii eiperieaceji and erpoeed to
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aacial iaflu»nc&s. Tha reoult i s that when we mature

REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES -lUr-
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no two of ms are. identical fro* a psychological point of
In the present instanc*, howiTer, we are concerned not 30 auch
with distinct Individuals AS with A whole cultural group* The
members of thip group hArp been exposed to nodal influences,—
f sjnily pattern a, methods of training and education, opportunities
for development, etc-,—Hthlcb are f a i r l y homogeneous withii a
culture or ptrati of a Culture. The refllilt i s that the
of a given culture t«od to a c t , thihk and feel more 03*
elika, a t least i n contrast to the neubare of a different
cultural group* This juetlflos, t o aone extent, our speeJcicg
af a ganaral cultural charactar. On thfl other hand, i f a

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larff« sattion of a giTan culture rebelle- against tha traditional
patters thoa wv «uet a««une that now social influences hav*
beeu Introduced which tand to produce ft type of character which
cannot thrive in the old cultural environment.

thlB happens i t way to extranalj helpful to
tha oatura of tie social forces which influenced tha
development of lndlTidual membarfl of the group. Those Bfflj p«r™
aft cluae to an uod«rstandin£ of the: group as a whole inasauch

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S.B we can then ibvnstigate the frequancy emd intensity of these
some foroeH i n the group as a whole and dr** ded.uction* con*

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thflir effact upon ite iodivijual nenberp* If tha

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being studied happen* to be the leddar of the group,
wa can expect to find the pertinent factors i n an exaggerated
form which would tend to'malcg them stand out i n sharper r e l i e f

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than would be the case U wa studied an ATarage manber of
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group. Under the0a circumstances, the action of the forces
•ay be mare eaellLy isolated end subjected to da tailed study

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in relation to the personality as a whole as « H ns to the,
culture in general. The problfln of cur study should be,
not only whether Hitler La wM or not, but what iufluences in
hie oevelopnent have^jPtfM hin what he lft.

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IT we scon the tremendous quantities of material and
information which have been accmaulated OD Hitler, we find
little^whieh iB helpful in explaining why be i s what he ie*
One can, of cours*, aalce general statoDeote as *&iy authors
havfl dope and say, for aiaaple, that hie fiva yearB in Vienna
were so frustrating that ha ha tod th# whole social order and
i s now taking his revenge for the injustices ha euTfered- Such
Bound very plausible at f i r s t glance but *e would

•
want to tnow *hyf aa a young nan^ he was unwilling to wort
when he had the opportunity and what happened to tranafor» th*
laiy Vienna beefi97 i n t o ^ fl o&ereetic politic lab who never
stoned to tire'fr™ ruehiAt Xrom one meeting to another and
wa» able to work thousand* of listeners into a state of frenxy*
fle would aleo like to tnow aomethin^ about the origins of hi«
peculiar working habits at the present tine, hie titm. belief

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in hla nlasiot) r and fl& on* Wo matter how long *e otudy the
available iiaterial we can find no ratioDfll explanation of hi*
prawnt conduit. The satsrial l a descriptive ami t e l l a u» a
great dflfti about how he behsT#s under varying clrcuBfltftdceni
what h* tbinke and f**lfl about Taxlous irabjeete, but I t d«w

. not tell tifl *i*y# T O be s u m , ha hineelf naastimes offaro
.explanation^ for his conduct but It la obvious that these
are either built on fliaoy rational foundations or el*e they
serve tc push the problem further back into his past* On
this level «e ore in exactly th* Bane poflitiori in which n
find ourselves when a n*uroti* patient first CQBHB for belp.
In the easa of an individual neurotic patient, h
*e can aflk for a great deal more first-hand information which

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gradually sn&bl«a us to trace tba development of. his

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attitudes or behflTiotfal pfitterne t o earlier experiences or
inflUBBCfta in his l l f o history and the effects of theaa on

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later behavior. In moat cases the patient will have forgottan
theea aurlisr experiencefl but neveirtheleea he s t i l l uses thom
as premises in his present conduct. As aoott AB we are able to
understand the p r a i s e s underlying hi» conduct, then hie

s
irrational behavior beowneff comprehenaibla to ufi.
The sam* finding %ould probably hold i n Hitler's ease
except that here wa do not have the opportunity of obtaining

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the additional flrat-himd information which would enable ufl to
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trace the history of h i s views add behavioral patterns to their *
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early origins in order to discover the preniaee on which hi
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ifl operating* H i t l e r ^ &arly l i f e , when hia fuiid&jnental
attitudes were undoubtadly fonsed, i s a cJLosaly guarded

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particularly as far as ha himself 1& concerned. Tie hao beoa
extreael/ careful and hafl told UB exceedingly l i t t l e about
this pariod of his l i f e and even thfrt Is open to. serious

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questioning, k few fr&ginauts hava, b o m ^ r , bean unesrtbed

which era helpful in reconstructing hi» past life and the
experiences and influences which have determined his adult
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ch&racter, Navertheleas, in themselves, they would be wholly

inadequate for our purposes*
Fortunately, there are other source* of information.
One of than i s Hitler hinsalf. In e*ery utterance A ape&Jcer
.. ., or writer unknowingly t a i l s u£ & great deal about hlaself of
m
which he ia entirely unaware. The oubjftcts h« chooses for

elaboration frequently reveal unconscious factors ihich make
these Sean more Important to him than many other aapecta which
would to Juat as apprttprint* to the occasion. Furttieraors,
thfl method of treatsnant, t o o t h e r with ULB attitudes aipraflaed
towards certain topics, usually reflect unconscious proceases
which ar» synbolioally related to hla o n problen** The
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axanplafl he chooa«fl for purpoaefl of illustration aluoet alwnys

contain elomante from hlfl own earlier exparlanc40 which wer#
in cultivating the view he is expounding* The
of epaech he employs reflect uneotaaiauo conflicts
and linkages and the iocidenea of particular types or topics
can sjjioet be used as a meaBura of hia preoccupation with
problems related to than* A number of experimental techniquas
bare been worked out which bear witness to the validity of
thase ttathods of gatharin^ inforkation about tlje mental l i f a t
conscious and unconfloloua, of an indiTidual in addition to
the findings of psjchoanelyBts and paychifttriets»
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Then, too, we ha-?* our practical experience in etudying

patiants whose difficultiea ware not unlike those we find in
Hitler* Our knowledge of the origins of thpaa difficulties 007
often ba used to evaluate conflicting information, check deduc-
ts, on a concerning what probably happened, or to f i l l In gaps wbor#
no Inforaatien i s aTallabl** I t may be poeaibla with th» help
of a l l thefle sooircea of inTorafttiori to reconstruct th« outfttaoding
gvents ip his early lit9 *frieh hare detenilnsd hie prftBant
behavior *o4 charicter atructure. Our study miot, ?io**Tier, of
netisaaity be spaculetlve and inccaiclusiTa. I t may t*Ll no a
great deal about the mental proeeaeep of our subject but i t
cannot be a* cflBprelienai^ or conclusive as the findings of a
I
direct study conducted with the cooperation of the Individual*
NovortheltfflB, tile situation is such ihaX even an indirect atudy
!
of this kind i s warranted*
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Priud'e aarlieat fled greateflt cootribution t& paychiatiy
In particular and to an understanding of hunau conduct in. getieral
•as hi* discovery of the inportsmce of the firflt y&aro of a
child1 ft life in ntwping hifl future character. It is during
these early ^ a r a , when the cbiM** acquaiDtance^hip wltix th*
norld ia s t i l l uagre and his capacities ire fltiH
•
that th& *hanceB of ftisinterpreting tho nature of the

about hia are ta# gr&atast. Tho mind of the child ! • inadequate
for under standing the demands which a complex eulturs matcaa
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Upon hi* or tha hast of confusing experience* U which he i a
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exposed* In consequence t efl haa bean shown ovar and over again,
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A child during hi a early yeara fraqueatly olainter prats what
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Is going on about bin And builda his personality structure on

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false premises. Even Hitler concedes that this flading i s
, for he fl»yB in MHH KAMFFt

i s a bay, let us say, of three
This id the age at which a child
conscious of his fixat iapreSflionS
many intelligent people, trace* of
early Bwaorl«« «re found even in old
(MK, 42)
Under tbeae circimifttaJiceft, it will be irell fof us
to Inquire into the asture of Uitler 1 a earliest anTironawnt
and the iapresalonp which he probably foned during tiiis period.
Our factual information on this phase of hia l i f e i s practical!^1
nil* la MSIW KAMFF Hitler trieo to create thfl impraasloii that
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hie hofw was rathor peftcwful and quiet, his "fatliftr a faithful
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ciffil earrant, the mothar darting hersalf to tha earen of l i e

household and looking after her children with eternally thfl ,
sans loving caret" It would Been that if this is a true
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representation of the hoflfr anTironwnt there would fre no reft Don

for hia concealing it. so Hcrupul<nialyv . Thia in the only passage
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in a boolt of A thousand pages in. which he even Intliaates that

there were other children for his nother to take care of, No
brother and no sister ere mentioned in *By other connection
mud e^n to hie aaacciateo he hafl IWTST adaitted that there
a
lwars
i t t l eother
more£hik^*
i s ssid bepidaa
about hiphiepothar,
half-sister,
either Angela
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I* This concealment in i t s e l f would ufrke UB auspicious
the truth of tlw statement quoted above* We become even

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more auspicious whan ve find that not e single patiant mani-

festing Hitler* s character traits has grown up In such a n i l -
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ordered and peaceful home environment*
If we read on in HKIH KAMFF we find that Hitler give a
ua a description of a child 1 s l i f e In a lower-class family.

He
'Among the five children there ia a boy* l e t
UB say, of three,..When the parents .fight
"• almost dally, their brutality leaves nothing
to the imagination) then the resulta of ffuob
visual edUCfttJ-On nufit olovly but inevitably
become apparent to the l i t t l e one. The Be who
not familiar with such conditions, can hardly
the results, especially when the mutual
g , py
differences express theme elves in the form of
brutal attacfc* ou the part of the father to ward a
thn aothar or to aeaauite dua to drunkenneas4
The poor l i t t l e boy, at the age of SIJC, eensoa
thirds irtiich would make even & grown-up person
Bhudd4x.**The other thinge the l i t t l e fellow
hears at horie do not tend to further hia
respect for hia avrroundltiffri11 {USL, 42}
In view of the fact that we now Jcnow that thsra were five
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children in the ttitler hone and that hie father liked to spend
hia'spare tine i n t h s village taTern where he sometimeB
AO heavily that he had to be brought horn by his.wife or

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we'begin to ouspect that in this jjawase Hitler' i s f in a l l
probabilltyj da scribing conditions in hip own h&ae aa a child.
If w* accept, the hypo thesis that Hitler id actually
talking about hie own homn when he dflscribeg conditions in^ tha
lowei-claaft family, we can obtain further liiformatioa x .

concerning the nature of hlfl bone airrironBent* Te read:
",,,things and badly indeed when the man front

the vary start goes his own wajr And the wifo,
for the a&fce of tha children stands up against
him* Quarreling and nagging Bet in, and in
tit* some measure In which the husband become a
estranged from bia wife, be becomefl familiar
with alcohol...Whew he finally comes- bow***
drunk and brutal}, but always without a lafit
cer;t or penny, then God have mercy on the
echoes which follow. I wltnecaed a l l of this
personally In hundreds of scenes and at Hie
beginning with both disgust And indignation-"
Fhen we r^membar the few friends that Hitler has made la the
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course of his l i f e , and not a single Intimate friend, one
wonders where he had the opportunity o£ observing these
pqrsooallv, hundreds of times, IT i t waa not i n h i s own
And then he continues!

."The Qtksr things: the l i t t l e fellow, hears
hona da not tend to furtfcar his respect for ^
hia flnrrouiMiingfl. Mot a single good flhred
Ifl l e f t for humanity, not a single lnfltitution
Is l e f t unattackadj start!tig with tha tascher,
up to the head of the State, b* i t religion,
or aorelit/ as such, be i t th* State or acoiet
no matter which, everything Is pulled down in
the nastiest P*aneT- into tb* f i l t h of a
depraved nentallty. 11 (HK, 4S)
All of t h i s agrees with Inforjnation obtained from otbar
whose Lv»raelty might otlierwiee be oped t o queation* With thla
BLS corrob&r«Uug evidence, however, i t seems OTJT* to aasune

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that the above paeaagaa ar* a fairly no curate picture of tha
Hitler houubold and we may surmise that these scene* did arouse
disgust and Indignation in hia at & ray earl? ega.

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These faelinga were aggravated by the fact that when

hi a father waa aobar he tried to create an entirely different
impression* At such tinea he stood very much on his dignity
and prided himself on his position in the civil service* Even
after he had retired fron this sarvico he always insisted on
wearing hi & uniform nfceii he appeared In public. En was scrupulous
about his appearance and strode down the village street in bin
Most dignified nnimer* When he spoke to hie neighbors or
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acquaintances he did so in a very condescending manner and

always demanded that they usa his f u l l t i t l e (then they addrea&ed
him* X£ --e of then happened to omit a part of i t , be would call
attention to their omission. Ha carried thie to the point where,
ao informantfl tell us, he became a source of amusement to the
other villagers and thsir children. At home- ho demanded that
the children eddress hijn aa Herr Vater Instead of using one of
the Intimate abbreviation* or nldcnamaa that children comonly
do
Father's oa ^fl character

We know from OHT study of aany casas that the character
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Of the father is one of the HAJ or factors determining U w

character of .the child during infancy, particularly that of a
boy. In ease* in which the father ia a fairly well-integrated
individual and presents'a consistent pattern of J»havior which
th* small boy can respect, he become a aodel «hich tb« ohild
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stri/ua to awulAt*. The Image the child had of hid father

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beoones the cornerstone of hi a later character-structure and

with its help ha 1B Able to integrate bis own behATior along
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socially accapted lines. The Luportones of this first step

In character development can scarcely be frrcf-ostinatdd. It
la almost a pramquigite for a stable, secure and wall-integrated
personality in later life*
In Hitler's case, as ID almost a l l other neurotics of
his type, this step rss not feasible, lufitaad of present-ng
an iaaga of a contestant, harmonious, sociall^-adjuflt*d And
admirable iodlTldual *h.ich the child can use as 4 guide and
model, the father shows hladelf to b a a mass of contradictiona*
At tlmoa ha plays tie rol* of "a faithful civil servant* *ho
respects hiA position and the society he sarvep, and danands
thftt a l l other6 do lik&wisa* At such tiaes be i s the soul of
d lenity, propriety, atemnass and jîBtic«» to thn outîâ
world he trieo to appear as a pillar of Society Tihoa a l l
respect and 0U7. At tome, on the other hind, particularly
he had b&an drinting, ha appaarfl the extct oppoait*. He 1A
brutal, uoJUBt and inconfliderata# He has no reapact for anybody
or anything. The world is all vrong awi am unfit plao* in which
to live* At PUCh tinea he also plays the part of the bully and
hl» wife and child ran wfao ar* unable to defend thcrnaelvap,
th* dog eoiae in for hie share of hi3 sadiatie display.
Voder such cireiuastaiiceB the child beacuneu aonfus«d
Is finable to id*ntify hiaself with a olesj--ctft pattom ^tich
ean use aa a guide for his own adjustoant. Hot only i s this
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a. errors handicap la Itself but in addition the child is giten

a distorted picture of the worli around bin and the nature of
the people in It* The hona, during, these yeare, la his world
And he Judged the outside world in karma of It* The result i»"
that the whole world appears aa ortreaely dangerous,
and unjuat BB a plaoa In which to live and the child *e
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la to ATOM i t as far aa possible became he feels unable to

oop4 with i t . He fealft iueflcur*, particularly slow he c u
prodict beforehand how hi a fatber will behave wfaan he
hove In the evening or what to expect Iran him* Th*
who should giv* him lov«, support and A feeling of
security now fillp hla with anxiety, uneasiness and uncertainty*
As & child El tier anat have felt this lack very

keenly for throughout his later life we find hJLu tiearchii^ For
a strong uaaouline figure whom he can respect and esmlat**
The, men with whom he had contact during hie childhood evidently
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could Dot f i l l the role of gtildn to his complete BatJLafaction*

"Jherw ifl some evidence that ae attempted to regard BOM of hla
in thia way but vhothar i t was the Influence of bii
raJitlng or ahortcoalnga ia "the teachers thamflelvee,
his atteapt* always il*iOftrri*o% Later he attrnptad to find
great lam in history who Could f i l l this noad* Caeear, Rftpoleon
and Fr*deriok the Qreat ar* only a f*w of the many to who* he
beuew attached * • Although ouch, historic figures serve an
important role of thla tUd in the Ufa of alaottt everj child,
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they are i* thnmeelvefl lnAd«qu&t«* Unless a f a i r l y Solid
foundation already e x i s t s In the mind of the c h i l i thea*
ne*er become flesh and blood people inasmuch e.e t i e relationship
La one-aided and Iaa1t& reciprocation. Tins pass i s also true
of the p o l i t i c a l figureo with liiich Hitler sought to Identify
hlitBAlf during the Tirana period. For a Una Schoanerer And
Lueger became his heroes and although they were iDStrunmtal in

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forming acne of hifl p o l i t i c a l belief* and channeling hie faeliflgl,
they « * • s t i l l too far reaOTod froo hja to play the r&ls of
peruuant guidQA and tuodala*

During bifl career In the &TMJ VB bare an excallant
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extuiple of Hitler rfi villingnea^ to subiait to tb« lesderBhip of
fit rang males who were frilling to guide bid and protect hla*
Throughout hi& arm; l i f e there Is not a shred cf evidence to

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shop that Hitler was aurthin^ but the model soldier as far aft
aubmiesiveneea and abedien&s are concerned^ FVom A pflychologicsl
point of vlaw hie l i f e i n the army TTSP a kind of substitute
for the hone Ufa he hod aliraye wanted but cauld oeTer find, and
h« fulfiiaed his duties willlngiy and f a i t h f u l l y , fta l i i » 4 i t

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Ho well that after he waa wDund*4r in 1316, hft wrote to bid
connandlrig oftic«r and requsftted that he be called back to front

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duty before hia leave had expired,
After the close of the war he stayed i n the txmj and
contlnufld to be a<?all« t o hi* officers. He waft Tilling to do
anything they ft eked, even to the point of spying on his own
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and then condemning then to rib*th. When his officer* L
hi« out to do special propaganda work because they
bellaT«d he bad a t a l e n t for speaJd-rig, h» n s oTerJcjod.
This was the beginning of his p o l i t i c a l carear, and here too
*e can find many vftnifeBtetioDfl of his search for a leader.
In the beginning he utay well bare thought of hlas^LT as tli#
i t a waJ heralding the coning of the graftt leadsr*
i t ia that during th* early years of hi& caraar h* waa
niflBiTe to a entieeflsicni of iaiportant DAQ to when he
looked for guidanc* - VOD KahrF Ludandorff and Hindenburg, to
nane only a few*
It ia truo that in the and bo turned upon then one
after another and treated them ID 6 daBplcable fflflhlon, but
usually thia ehaqg* cane aft»r ha diecoTsr*d th»ir pBrsaaal
Bhortcotdufifl and inadequacies. As i n many neurotic people of
Hitler >s type who haim a dsop craving for guidanea from an
oldar nan, their araqixireibant* grow vitA Use ywara, Ely th«
time thay reach n a t u f i t j they are looking for p and can only
aubnit tat a par son who ia perfect in every reapact—literally
a auper-jnan. The result ia that thay are always trying to

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; aoue in contact with new peraona of high fltatua in the hopo
that each one, in turn, k i l l prove to bo tha ideal. So sooner

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do they discover a dingle waakneea or abortocmlng than they
d«poM him fron the p«d«8tal on which they ha^s placed him.
They then tr*at tholr f a l l e n h^roep tadiy for haflng failad to

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up to their expectation*. And so Hitler has spent hia llf*

for e competent guide but always eudn with the discovery
that the person he has chosen falls ahort of his r«qulrementa
and i s fundueutally ao nor* capable than hl«*elF. That this
tendency is a earTy-over fron his early childhood is evidenced
by the faftt that throughout these years he has always laid great
fltrtag on addnseing these persons tay their full title** Shadea
of his father1 a training during hia early childhood I
It nay be of Interest to note at thin Urn* tfeat of a l l
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the titles that Hitler bight have chosen for hineelf he la

content with the simple one of •Fuehrer11 • To him this t i t l e
is the greateet of than all* He has spent hia l i f e searching
for a person worthy of the role but urns unable to find one until
he discovered himself * Hifl goal now i s to f u l f i l l this role to
millions of other people in a way la which he had hoped some
person might do for hia* The fact that the Oman people hare
tfubnittod so readily to his leader ship would ljidinat* that a
great many Germans were la a similar state of miad as lmr
hlaself and were not only will 1 tig, but anxious, to submit to
anybody who could prove to them that he was oonpetent to f i l l
the role* There Is some sociological evidence that this ID
probably ao and that ite origins l i e in the structure of tb*
Geroan family aad the dual role played by the father within the
how a* contrasted with the outside world* Tha duality, on
the average 1B> of course, not nearly as marked as we have shown
i t to b* in Hitler's case, but i t nfljr be this *ery fact which

qualified him to identify the need and expraea i t in tarns
which the others could understand and accept*
There Is evidence that the only person in tha world
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at the present tine who night challenge- Hitler in the role of
leader 1B Rooaavelt* Informants are agreed thfct he fears neither
Churchill nor Stalin. He feels that they are sufficiently lllce
hi-tsolf BO that he can understand their psychology and defftat
than at the gasa. Roosevelt, hoKerar, aaeoo t& be an enigna to
him* HOP a nan can lead a ruitloa of 150,000,000 people and
keep them in line without a grast deal of uurt-calling, shouting,
and threatening i s a n/stery to hin- He ia unable to
how «. moo can be th# leader ftf a-large group and
s t i l l act Ilka a gentladan. The reault ia that he
admires Kooaevelt to a considerable degree, regardless of
what be publicly aayo about hia4 Uodani'Bath he probably fears
hin irut#nuch eta he i s unable to predict his actions,
p p^thar and her
Hitler'A father t howrer, waa oaly a part of his
early enTironpent* There was also his mother who* from a l l
reportfl> was a vary decent type of woman* Hitler baa written
very l i t t l e and said nothing about her publicly. Informants
t e l l Ud* however, that she was an extrenely toascientitious
and hard-wcrking individual whose l i f e centered around her
homo and children. She was an exemplary housekeeper and
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there ind novtir a spot or flpack of duut to be:found In the

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house—everything mia v*ry neat and orderly* She was a very

devout Catholic and the trial* and tribulation* that foil upon
her hone oho accept*! with Christian resignation. Even her
la at vbich extend«d over aany Honttaa and caused
greAt pain, she endured without a single camplalDt, We »ay

assume that she had to put up with much from her irrasolble
huaband and i t my be that at tinea she did hove to stand up
against hid for the waif ax* of her children. But a l l of this
she probably accapted in the Sana spirit of abnegation* To
bar awn children she w&s always extremely affectionate and
generous Although there i s eoae re&£ou to suppoae that she
•aa mean at tiae-s to her two etap-children.
la any event, every scrap of evidence indicates that
there waa an extreaely str&ng aitachnent batttean herAAlf avd
Molph* Ka previously pointed out, thle was duo in part to
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the fact that Bhe bod loat two, or poasiply throe, children
before Adolph waa born, Since ho, too, «n& frail aa a child
It i s natural that a. woman of her type should do «-r«rything
within har ponr to guard against another r*eurreaca of bar
earlier experiences* The result was that she catered to his
to the point of spoiling Limr and that sh* was
in bar attitude towards bin. We uay ouauiie
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that during thei flrot five jeara o£ idolph1* l i f e , he wna ta*
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apple of hie uother'a eye ajid that ahe lavished a/fection oa
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In Tiew of her husband's conduct and the fact that be
wafl twianty-three years her senior- and far from having a loving
disposition, we may suppose that KUGh of t i e affection that
normally would have gone to him also found i t * way to Adolph-

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The result was a strong libidinal attachment between
mother and eon. It 1B almost certain that Adolph had temper

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tantrune during t h i s time but that these were not of a eerloua
nature. Their laaaadiate.purpose waa to get hio own way with

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his mother and he undoubtedly succeeded in achieving titia and.
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They were a technique by which ha could dominate her whenever
- he wished,, either out of faar that aha would lose his lor* or
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out of fear that If he continued he might become like hia fatheri

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There ifl reason to suppose that she frequently condoned behavior
of which the father vould have disapproved and ma^ have become
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a part&er In forbiddfln a c t i v i t i e s durli>g the father's absebot*
with Paradise
veritable hie nothcrfor
during theoe early yaars muat hfiire betn a
except for the fact that his
fathor would intrude and disrupt the happy relationship* Even
whau hi3 father did not make a acene or l i f t hid whip, he would
demand attention from hia wife which prevented her partifiipfttion
In pleasurable i c t i v i t l e a * I t waa naturalT under the&e cireu»-
atonces, that Molph should repent the lutrualon into hie
Paradia* and this undoubtedly aggravated the feeling^ of
uncertainty and fear which hie father 1 a conduct arouBod In h i * .

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As ha bftCftK older and tJ>a llbldijyil atUchnent to

hia mother beeana stronger, both the rasantnent «rf fee* un-
doubtedly increased* Infantile sexual dealing a were probably
quits prominent ID this relationship as well aa fantasia a of
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a childish nature* This le the Oedipus complex mentioned by

psychologists and psychiatrists who have written about Hitler1 P
personality. The great Amount of affection lavished upon hint
by hid mother and the undesirable character of hie father
to develop this complex to on extraordinary degree* The
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he hated his father the more dependant he become upon the

affection and love of his Bother, «pd the more he loved his
mother the more afraid ha became of his father's vengeance
should his secret be discovered. Udder these circumstances,
l i t t l a boys frequently fantasy about ways and meana of
the anviromient of the intruder. There ia reason to
that thle also happened in HitlerTe early life*
hlfl attitude towirde lova.
Two other factors en tared into the situation which
served to accentuate the conflict s t i l l further* One of these
the birth of a baby brother when he was five yoara of nge.

This introduced & new rival onto the scene and undoubtedly
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deprived him of some of hlfl Bother1 a affection and attention,

particularly since the ner child mfl elflo rather eicklyv We
nay fluppesii that the newcoa»r in the family- also becajs* the .
victim of.Wolph^ aalnoHity and that he faritasied about
getting r!4 of hia ae he -had earlier contemplated getting rid
of his father. There in nothing tbaornal In t h i s except the
Intensity of the enotlcae iavoiced*
The other factor which" served to intensify these
feelings, wae th& fact that as. a child bo mist have discovered
h i s parents during intercourse* An exftnjjihtion of tia-a data
pakflB tlile conclusion alooat iiieflcArable mid fror, our kaowledga
of hie father'a character snd pa*t hietoi*y i t ia not at a l l
Improbable* It would Been that hia feellngfl on tbda occ&elon
**r* very uixad. On the one hand, he waa indignant At hi*
fath&r for whfit he considered to be a brutal assault upon hi*
moth&r* On the other hand, ha me Indignant with his mother
because eha aubMitted so illliingjj to the father, Mtd he WA*
indignant with hinself because h« wna powerless t o Interven*,
Lftter, as no eball a » , there *as an hyateridal r«-li*lng of
t h i s axperlance which playfld an iaportant part in
h i s future d&Btinisa.
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floing a spectator to this early scans had
repercueeiona* Qn& of the mopt Important of these was th»

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fact that he f e l t that hia mother had betrayed hin ia pub*
nitting to hie father| a feeling which become accentuated
a t i l l further vh&n hie baby brother waa bora* Hft l o s t
of hie rtspect for the female aei apd while In Yiann*,
reports, ha frequently spoke at length on the topic of lore . ,
«nd marrlfi£8 and that "he had very austere Ideas about
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man and women". Eren at that thus he naintalned
that i f hen only wanted to they could adopt a s t r i c t l y »oral
my of l i v i n g , "fla <>ft*n aald i t wa# the wotan's fault If a
man »ent astray" and "Ho used to lecture, up about t h i s , &ayln£
erary woman can b-a had*" In other words, ha regarded vppan aa
tbe seducer and responsible for man's downfall and be condemned
then for their disloyalty* Theae attitudes are probably tha
outcoica of hie early yiperiencea with biff mother kho f i r s t
Seduced him into a Lo?e relationship and then betrayed bin by
giving herself to his father* Karertheleas, he &tlll continued
to believe In an idealistic fora of IOTA and narriage riiicb would
be possible If a loyal VOD&H could be found* Ae we knt>¥, Hitler
never t;ave hlBiaeli4 into tha handA of a Toman again with thft
pcaaibla exception of hifi niece, Geli Raubal, which alao euded

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in dienater* Outeida of that a ingle exception he has lived a.
loveless l i f e . Hie distrust of both JLen find wojaen i s flo dsep

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that In a l l hie hietory there i s no record of a really Intimate
and ladting friendship.
The outcome of these early experiences WAS probably
& fueling of bo ing very such alone in s boa t i l * world* Hit
bated hj.s father, distrusted his mother, and despised hlaiaelf
for bin veaJoiBBfi, The inutura child finds such a atato of
•iod aJUabst unendurable for jmy length of tike and in order to

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gain peace and security in his environment these feelings ar*

gradually reprQasad fron hiB
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I t i s is A norail procedure which happens in the caflfl
of erexy child at a relatively" early age. This process of
repre&aloti enables tho child to reestablish a nors or leas
friendly relstionahip with hie parents without tit* Interference
pf disturbing mentor ie a and enotlone. Tlia early conflicts,
howeverT are not solved or destroyed by such a process and we
•mat expect to find manifestations of then later on, Rhen the
early r&prfca&i&n has bfien fairly adequate these conflicta
darmant until adolescence when, due to the process of
they are reawaieiiM* In eonie qaattB they reappear iu YVVJ much
thair original font, while In others thej ETO expressed in a
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camouflaged or Bysbollc fom*

In Hitler's case, however, the conflicting eaotions
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and sentiments vara BO strong that they could not be held in

a latent state during this time. Quite early in his school
career we find hie conflicts appearing again in a symbolic form.
Unfortunately, the synbola h# unconsciously chose to express hi a
own inner oonflicts war a such that they tove ser lonely affected
the future of the wotld. And yet these symbols fit his: peculiar
situation ao perfectly that it was fllaost inevitablo that they
would be chosen as vohicl*a of expression..
expraased li
^ a l l the amotlotiP he had once felt for
hi* Mother becane tranafertsd to Germany* Tbia transfer of
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affect wa* relatively easy lnasuuchfiBGermany, like his Bother*
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young and Tlgoroua and held promise of a grant future under
suitable circumst/nice a. Furthermore, he f a i t abut off from
Germany as he no* f e l t abut off fron hia mother, even though
ha secretly *ished to be with her. Germany became a flymbol
of hi* ideal bother and hie sentivants are clearly expressed
in hiff writing and speeches. A few excerpts will flerw tc
Illustrate tha transfer of emotion;
"The longing grew stronger to go there

(Gonuanj) whelms since iny aarly jouth
I had bean drawn by tmctet vriehea and
oacret loy«*H
"What I f t r a t had looked upon ae an la-

pftBe^blfl qLasm now spurred me on to
greater lova Jfor ty country tbfift evtr
"An unnatural separation from the great
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1 e.ppeal to those who, severed from the
.Uotbtirl&nd, .,.«nd mho now in painful
emotion long for "Lhe hour that will
allow them to return to the arms of th»
bolomed aother,"
I t i s sign if leant that although Germans, as a whole 7
refer to Germmj AS the " FatherlandH t ftitler almost aiwaja
rvferp to I t ai tbft "Hotharland."
Ju*t a* Genneny was ideally suited to symbolize h i s
ID WAS Austria idoall^ ffuited to aybboliza his father.

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tit father Austria was old, exhausted, and decaying from
^ Ha therefore tmnafflrred a l l his uuoonnclous hatred

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fro» hip fath»r t o the AiiBtrl&n s t a t e . Be could now give
to a l l his pent-up emotionn without exposing hiaaelf to the
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dangerB he beloved bfr would hflVBtiDGtitUiterfrdbed he
these SABS feeling* towards the persona really involved* Is
ME1K KAMPF lie frequsatlj refers to the Austrian state* for
example, in tonnfi such as thoset
•••* an intense lone far ay nstiv»

Auatri&o country and a bitter hatred
ngai.net the Austrian a tat*."
"With proud admiration I compared the

r i » of tbe Bftich with the decline
of tht Auetrian
*Clie Alliance betwaen Austria and Gerntaii7 eerred "to
the marriage of hie moth or ssd fattwr. Oirtr azkd aver again we
find reference B to tbla alliance and we C»D see c l e a r l j bo*
deeply lie resented th* marriage of bis parents because he f e l t
that his father was a detriment to hifl rather and only through
the death of the former could tbe latter obtain bar freedom
find her palvation• A few quotations w i l l illustrate hie
sentiments:
"And who could ]ceep faith with ap
iuperial dynasty which betrayed the
cau«s of t i e German people for i t s
cum Ignooinloufl end** a betrayal that
occurred again and again.11
grieved us most was tho fact that

the wfcole eyatau was nor Ally protected
by tho alliance with Germany, and thus
tioruaay horftelf.. .rnlked bj ttw side of
the corpse*11
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"•••It vufficee to st«te here that froa

my ftarlieflt youth I came to A aoavictloD
which never deserted me, but on the con-
trary grew stronger find strop gen that
tho protection of tbe Gerntui race presumed
the destruction of Austria.*«1 that abow a l l
alfra, the Royal BouM of Hapeburg wao
to bring misfortune upon the Gertuw nation*
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"Sinee my Jieart had never beaten fdr

an Austrian aon&rcby but only for -a
Geruaa Reicn, I could only look upon
tine hour of the ruin of this utate
as tha beginning of the Halvation of
the Gernan nation*"
Hhsn we hftT& grasped the significance of this trans-

ference of affect ire have made a long a tap in the direction bt
understanding H i t l e r ' s actions. Unconsciously ho i s not dealing
with nations oovpoaed of millions of individuals but i s tiylng
to Bol7e his personal conflicts and ractify the injustices of
bis childhood* Unable to enter into a "glve-and-tais" relationship
with other human beings which might afford him an opportunity
of resolving his conflicts in a r e a l i s t i c manner, he projects
his personal problems on grant nations end than t r i e s to eolw
then on t h i s unrealistic level. His microcoBp baa been inflated
into a Bacrocosu
We can now understand why Hitler fell on hie knees and
thanked Gotf when the l a s t war broke out. To hiu I t did not n u n
siieply A T«tr, as eucb t but an opportunity of fighting for hl»
ejinbolic mothefr,—of proving hie aanimod and of being atcflpted
by her* I t waft inevitable that he would seek enlistment In tb«
German Army rather than ID the Austrian Army and I t was also
inevitable, under these circujoAtancefl, that ha would be a good
and obadlant soldier« Unconsciously i t was as though he ware
a l i t t l e boy who was playing the part of & man while hla mother
t
stood by and watched bin. Her future welfare was hie great
concern and In order %o prove his IOT* he ma willing, i f need
tie, to sacrifice h i s own l i f e for her*

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The effects of Gfrraara^fl defeat*

Everything wont smoothly ae long ait he f e l t BUT* that
a l l would turn out w*ll in the and. He oarer complained about
ths hardships that were iapoBod on him and he never grumbled with
the other man. He »aa happy in what he wsc doing and met the
trial* Md tribulations of amy l i f e with hia chin up u n t i l ha

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discover*! that thi-ngp ware golii^ badly and that hie symbolic
nothar was about to be dagraded aa he had iMagload hisa real
mother had bean degraded in hie childhood* To him i t was &a i f
hie mothar WR* egaiii the victin of a sexual aaaault* This time
i t was the WoTBaber CriMinal* and the Jews who were guilty of the
foul deed and ha promptly transferred liiB repressed hate to thes*
new perpetrators*
Khan hft bacaaa fully aware of Geman^'fl defeat ha reacted
la a t^-plAAllr hyBterlcftl aflmiflrp Ha refused to accept or ndjuflt
to the aituation on a reality level* Instead, h» reacted to thie
event as ha probably xaaetttd to th* die comely of hia parsntfl la

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intercourse. B& writes?

"I atumblM and tottered rearwards with
burning eye**--Already a few hours later
-thfl gyep had turned into burning coals;
I t had bacome dark aroiuad a s . 1
In another place he writes:

While o w r y g began to go blaak Again
before ay ayee, stuablijig, I groped sqr
way b&ct to the domttory, threw aySftLT
on •? cot and buried ay burning head tn
th* covara and pillows, 11
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At the time this happened he had bean expaaad to a
slight attack of Bustard gas, fle innediately believed that he
waa blinded and ape&chlepa* Although ha spent several v&eka
In hoapitel, neither his Byaptanfl nor the developiwnt of the
Illness corresponded to those found in genuine gas capes* I t
hue beau definitely established that both the blindness and
the iflutiBin were of an hysterical nature. The physician who
treated hi* at that tine found his case 30 typical of hysterical
H^-mptoKB in general that for TWITS after the war he used i t ftfl
an illufltrdtion in his courses given at a promlnant GenoAii
aadical school, fa know fror a graat many other ca$*a that
during the onset of such attficka the patient behaved In aaactly
the flaae uajm«r as he did earlier in hia l i f e vhen confronted
by ft el tuition with the flan* emotional content* I t i s as though
the Individual were actually reliving the earlier experience
over again. In Hitler 1 a eaae this aarlier experitDO* ma almost
eertaJUOy the discoTery of h i t parent* in lntBt<joiir» and that
ha interpreted this ai i brutal aauault i n which he was
pomrleaa. He reûed t o believe what h i s eyefl t*ld hfo and
the experience l a f t hi* speechless,
That this interpr*t*tion i s correct i s aTldencad by
hie laaeery In dealing with the event later on. Over and over
again wa find figure B of speech auch &B theflei
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has been raped,*
».. t cur Gertan paciflets p i l l paflfi over

In alienee the moat bloody rape of the
nation*"
ihlch illustrate his eentlvente vary clearly*
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The prlelae of bio b«li«f in hie
It wafi while ho WSB in tie hofipital suffering fro*

hysterical blindness: and nutiOM that he had tibe vision that
he would liberate the Germans from their bondage and aafa
Germany great. It was this vision that a At hie on his
political career and which has hsd such a determining Influence
OD tlw course of itorld events. yor& than anything 4lse i t was
tLifl Tlslon which convlnfiwl him ttlftt he irao choAm by Frovidenc*
and that ho had a ^r&at uiasion to perform. This ifif probably
the most outfitting characteristic of Hitler 1fifuture
aod i t ia thip which guidea hla vlth th* "precloion of a nloep-
Fran an asalTais of many other caaea n know that such

conviction* n m r result frcio &n adult axperience alone. In
ordar to carry conviction tboy aiet rsawnkon flnrllsr bsllofa
which ha« their root* far bact In childhood. It i s , of course,
notbing unusual for a child to talleve that h* i s some apaclal
creation and destined to do great things before he dies. One
can alnost aay that every child pafiOefl torough ouch a period
on hio nj to growing up* In m&qy people rennants of such early
beliefs are obaervablo Inawmich as they feel or baliero that
Fat« or Luck or Providence or BOOB other extra-natural power
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has cbopan them for special favorP* In moat of thoae eaeon,
howevert the adult individual only half believes that thl$ i s
really HO even whyn a whole aerie a of favorable event & nay
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th* hypothesis plausible. Only rarely do we find a f i r *

conviction of this ktM ID adulthood and then only when
there v a n extenuating circumstances in childhood which
nade such & belief neosppftry and cODTlncln£*
In Hitler's case the extenuating circumstances
are relatively clear* Mention has already been made of the
fact that hia mother had given birth to at least two and
padaibly three children, a l l of whon bad died prior to h i s
own birth* He* h l u e l f j wad a f r a i l and rather sickly infant.
Under the&e oixovnatance^, hia aother undoubtedly
heraslf to the utmost to keep him alive* Ho was
ablj spoiled during thift period and hi a survival W«P probitblj
tha great concarn of the fauilj AS v e i l AH of the neighbors.
From his e a r l i a s t days there was, no doubt t considerable talk
in the household about the. death of the other children and
constant comporlaona between their progress and hip own.
Children f i r s t become aware of death B.3 a pheiiOBerio
« r y early i n U f a and In view of thaw ununuol circuu&t&ncee
it say hare dawned OD Hitler even earlier than with
children. The thought of death* in I t s e l f , 1P
to a amoll child and they upually or* able to fora
the Tacuept conception of what i t ttean^ or tapliea befor*
they push i t out of their n±n4ak for l a t e r consideration*
In Hitler 1 a case, howror,, i t u s a living issue and th*
fears of the rather were In a l l Likelihood communicated t o

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Ad he pondered the problem in aifl laoature way, ha

probably vond«red MIJT tta others died nil I Is he certtir.ued to
liva. The natural conclusion for e child to draw would be
that he waa favored ±n some way or that he was choBon to live
for »oua particular purpose* The belief that he n s the
"chosen ofle" would have been reinforced by the fact that flfl
far afl his mother waa concerned he ma v*xy muah the chosen
on* In comparison with her two step-chlldroa who were
livifig in tbs hoaa at that t i n e .
Thde belief aust have been strengthened
when, i t the age of five, hia baby brother waa bonn* This
baby brother hfts undoubtedly played a nach note liaportant
role io Adolph1 s l i t o than has been acknowledged by bin
biographers. The pertinent fact a t the nonent, however, in
that this brother too died before he WAS BLJC yeare old* Xt
ws* Adolpb's f i r s t real axperience with death and i t must have
brought up the problea of death again in a much sore vivid
form* Aâin, we con fluraioe, ba asked hlftaeir why ttey died
whil« he continuea to be saved* The only plausible anspar to
a child at that age would be that be muat be under divliw
protection* Thia nay BBBH far-fetched and y*t, aa an adult,
Hitler t e l l s us that ha felt exactly this w»y wtaen be was at
the front during the war, eian before he had the vlaioa. Then,
too, hei apocula-ted on rtiy i t La ttmt comradee a l l around hi*
are killed while he la saved and again he corned to tha
eoucluBion that Providence auat be protecting hJUa. Perhaps

ths exemplary courage he displayed In carrying neasagea at
thft f*otit waa duo to the feeling that sow kindly Fate was
watching over bin. Throughout HEIN KWfPF we find this type of
thinking. It was Fate that had hin born so close to the Gemma
banter; i t w*a Fate that Sent him to Vienna to auffor with the
MftBS«8; i t waa Fate that caused hiin to do nany things. Th*
exp«rience ht reporte at tha ftont, wh*n a *oic* told him to
pick lip his plats aiid bova to another section of th* trsneh
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iuat in tinfl to eflc^pa a atall *hich killed all hie comrades,
amet certa-Lnly have strenfthAned this belief to a vwrk*d degrea
and paTad the way for hie vision Ifiter on#
The Uqsalah
Another iuTluanca may have helped to solidify this
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syeten of belief* Among patients we very frequently fiai

that children who ors spoiled at ftu early age and eetabllBh a
strong bond irith their mother tend to qtoeatian their paternity*
Eld»at children in particular are prone to &uch doubte and i t is
moat marked in cawe nhere the father is much older than ttaa
mother* In Hitler's caA* the father was twenty^-thres years
old*r, or ftlnoet twice th* age of the pother * Ju«t why this
should be ifl not clear, from a psychological point of view*
but in fluch caAas there ie a strong tendency to believe that
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their, father ia not th&ir real father and to aioribe their

birth tit BOOB kind of supernatural conception* Usually such .
b e l i e f s are dropped as the child grave older. I t can be
observed in young children, howeverp and can often be recovered
la adults under suitable conditions. Due tc the uasyrapathatic
and brutal nature of h i s father we may suppose that thera u s
HI added incentive In rejecting him as hie real father and
postulating some other origin to himself,
Tbs problem la not Important In i t s e l f at the uorant
except insofar as i t may help to throw some light on the
origins of Hitler's conviction in hid mission and his belief
that he i s guided by some extra-natural power which comaiinicatefl
to him what he should and should not do under varying circum-
stancea. This hypotheBia i s tenable in view of the fact that
during hie stay in Vienna, nhen ^ t i l l in his early treaties,
he grew a board and again directly after the. war nuflii h« again
grew a Ghristr-llfcfl beard* Then, too, when he waa a frtudont ^t
the Benedictine school his ambition waa to Join the Church and
become an abbot or prie&t. All of these give some indication
of A Ueaaiah coapleqc long before he had started on his meteoric
career and become an opep competitor of Christ for the affections
of the German people.
Fear of death and desira for 1™^^!,^
Although bellflf s of thifl kind are coraawn during
childhood the? ar* usually dropped or are jnodified ae th»
individual become Bolder and oora flxperi-ancod. In Hitler's
case, howwer^ the reverse has taken place- the conviction

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b&cane stronger aa he grew older until, at the present time,
i t ia the core of hie thinking. Under these circun^tancea, *#
miBt suppose that some powerful psychological atreau continued
to nourish these infantile podep of thought, This psychological
stream i s probably, aa i t i s in aany other cases, a fear of
duatfr* It seems logical to suppose that in the course of hie
early deliberations on the deaths of hie hrothern bio fir at
conclusion wae probably that all tha oihare die end that con-
sequently he too would die* flifl fear would not be oULayad by
hia mother's constant concern over hia well-being, which ha
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nay have interpreted ae an indication that the danger was

imminent. Such a conclusion would certainly be a valid one for
a child to Hake udder the cireuwtancea, Ihe thought of tils
own death, however, ia aLaoat unbearable to a Bdall child*
i s quite eo demoralizing ae the constant dread of nulf-
unn It gnaws away day and night and prevents hia
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the good things that l i f e afford* *

To M4 hinself of this devastating fear bacomea
hia flftjor objective* This is not easily accompli shed t especially
whsn all Evailable evidence seems to corroborate the validity
of tlfe fear. I» opiw to offset itfl potency he id almost
driven to deny i t s reality by adopting the belief that i» ia
of divine origin and that Providence i* protecting him fro*
a l l hera. Only by uoe of auch a technique ia the child abla
to convince himself thft.^ he will not dia- We must
remember that in Hitler's co.se there wea not only the unusual
succession of deaths of siblings, out thera n a also the
confltftnt ranaee of hia father's bmt&litj which helped to
naka the fear more intense than In noat children* Thia
danger could; easily be exaggerated In HLtl&r*fl Bind due to
a sense of guilt concerning his feeling a toward* hia raspactlv
parents and what h±& father might do to hi™ if he discovered
hia secret. These feralin^s would t&nd to increase his fear
of death at the flnne time Uiat they c&usad hit to reject his
fathar. Both tendetictee vould serve to nourleh th4 belief
that he was of divine origin and ma under i t s protection.
I t ia my belief tb&t this baaic few of d*ath i s

a t i l l present and active in Hitler 1 3 character at the present
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UJM, As time goes on and he approaches the age when he night

reasonably expect to die, tfaie infantile f&ar aaaorts i t s e l f
more otrongly^ Ae a staturet intelligent nan he loiovfl that the
lair of nature ia ouch that his physical self ia destined to
dle» He lo B t l l l n o t able, howsTer, to accept the fact that
hs as an individual, hi* psyche> will also die* I t la this,
elenent in hie psychological a true tore whioh demonda that he
bscooa immortal* Host people are able to taSfi* the jiting out
of this fear of death throuî religl&ua baliefa in l i f e after
deaths or through the feeling that a part of then, at l e a s t ,
will continue to go on living in their children. In H i t l e r ' s
oaoa, bath of these aomal channel0 have been closed and h*
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has oewi forced to fleet immortality in a pore direct fora*

Hfi uniHt arrange to go on living in the German people for a t
least a thousand yaara to cone* In order to do t h i e , he oust
oust Chriat aa a competitor and usurp hia place ia the lives
of the Ganaan people.
Ia Addition t o evidence drawn froa axperieuce irith

patients which would make thia aypoUiaaia tenable t ™ haw
the evidence afforded bjrHitlw r a own fears and a t t i t u d e s .
Wa h*v» dia cussed theae i a detail in Section IV, Fear of
aeaaaaiuation, fear of poiaoning, fear of prenaturo death,
all deal with the problem of death ia an unfiajnotiflnged fora*
One daa, of oouroe, aalataln toat In riev of his poaitioa a l l
these f#aro are more or leaa ju&tlTiod. Tbere ia
truth ill thia coateatloB but ire fllflo notice that aa tiae
on thase fears htva Increased toneici^rably u n t i l notr t h e j
have reached the point where the precautions for hla own safety
for exceed thofle of any of his pradecesaorB* As long aa he
could hold a plebeecite ever/ now and then and roasBure
thftt the German people lo?«d him and wanted hla, he f e l t
How thftt thie la no longer possible, he HAS DO easy vo/ of
curbing the feer and his uncertainty in the future becomes
greater* There can toe l i t t l e doubt concern ing his faith in
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the results of the plebaooitap. Fie was firmly convinced that

toe 98% vote, approving his actions, really represented the
true faelinga of tba Gerow people# He believed thia
he needed such reassurance froa tlae to t±*e la order to carry

* on with a fairly easy uiod and maintain hi a delusions,
When we turn to hie faor of cancer we find no justif-
icotion whatever for hifl belief, especially Ln Tiew of the
fact thftt several outstanding specialists in this diaoasa have
a&eurad hi« that it ia without foundationsfl»vfcrth#les{j,it is
one of his oldest fears and he continues to adhere to it ia
spits of all tha export teettauiy to the contrary, Thie fear
beconea intelligible when m reawnib^r that bia aether died
followia^ an operation for cancer of the brttaat* In connection
with hia fear of death »» nmst not forget his terrifying night^
mares from which he avakea in a cold sweat and acts &a though
he were being suffocated. If our hypothecle ie correct, namely,
that a fear* of death if one of the powerful unconscioua atreanE
which driTs Hitler on in hia mad careert then we can expect that
as the war progresses and a,B he become a older the fear will
continue to increase* ffith the progress of events &lon$ their
present courpe, it will be more and more difficult for him to
feel that his Mission ia fulfilled and that he he* successfully
cheated death and achieved imnortelity in the Geimiui people*
Haverthele&st we cab expect hljn to keep on trying to the beet
of hia ability as long p » ray of hope regains, the gr«&t
danger ia that if be feels that he cannot achieve immortality
as the Great Kedeeaar he aay seek It A S the Great Destroyer
who will live on in the biodo of the fternau people for a
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thousand years to come. He intlQated this ID R confer sat Ion
Rauscbning when he flaidt
"KB shall Dot capitulate—-no,

Ue u y be destroyed, but if we
;WB ahall. drag a world with ua—« world
'In flamee."
With bin, as with many attar* of hie type* i t may well ba a
case of in&nortfility of any kind at any price*
Closely interwoven »ith several of the theme s which
have already been elaborated i s the developitant of his sexual'
lifd. From what we know about his mother's sxceftslva

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and tidiheSfl we Bitty afiSume that Aba eaployad rather fltrlagant
nfiaeureB during th* t o i l e t train log period of her children. This
usually rsaulta i n a reeldual tune ion in thie area and l e r
by tho child ad a flevere fruetration which Hfousea feelings ot
hostility. Thlo f a o l l i t a t e s an alllenc» with his infantile
Aggression which finds an avenue for expression through anal
a c t i v i t i e s and fantasies * Thefla usually canter around s o i l i n g ,
bxuallititloTj and destruction, and form the haflia of a sadistic
character. .•
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Here» again! ira may assuna that the experience waa
nor* intense in Hitler 1 3 case then in the average due to the
strong attachment and epoiling of his aotiiar In early infancy*
Unaccustomed to minor frustrations which n»St childjran ntust
l o a m to enduret prior to t h e . t o i l e t tralMnf, he was poorly ,

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equipped to deal with thip experience which pl*y£ an important
role in the l i f t of a l l infanta. Even now, aa an adult, w& find
Hitler untble to cope with frustrating experiences on a mature
level. Unit a residual teneion froa this period s t i l l axlats
in Hitler i s evidenced by the frequency of imagery In his £peaJcinff
and writing which deal irith dung and dirt and flaell, A fer
Illustrations may help to clarify hia unconscious preoccupation
with these aubjocta.
don f t unieratand: we axis Juat

passing a magnet ovsr a duagbill, and
we ahflll See presently hoir much iron
wap in the dunghill and hea elun^ to
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tae aaenot*"
e (By
( y îmghlll
g Hitler
meant Ux& German people. J
"And trhan be (the Jew) turns the treasures
orar Ih hi a bfiiid they are. transformed
dirt and
hande aaiso elin^ Jelly; i t

through one'a fiagera only to
collect Aâid in the n&rt uoinent*"
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Charity Is sometiaies actuallj comparable
to the manure rtiich 1B spread on thft
tlnl&f not out of lova for the latter,
but out of precaution for one'a own benefit
later on.11
into th& d i r t and filth of th«

lowest
the ntell of theae caftan*
me i l l * Added to this were their
dirty clothes and their none too heroic
appearance*11
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.,.Th« rottetmaaa of a r t i f i c i a l l y nurtured
canditi&ne of pftac« hafl ooro than ones
atuak to high tLeaven."
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His libldlaal development» howsvarf was not arraated
at this point but progressed to the genital level at which the
Oedipus coBiplsxj already referred \ot developed* This complexr
a» TO hftTe paen, was aggravated by hiP fflOtherTs pregnancy at
precisely the age when tha conple* normally reaches lta greeteat
intensity. In addition to accentuating hie hatred for his
father and estranging him from h i s mother, we can ftaatme that
this event at this partiCILUT time serrad to generate an abnormal
curiflflity in hia* He, lika a l l children at this age, miat hftTe
•onderad ho* thfl unborn child got into tha mother's atoaach
and hov i t was going to get out*
ThaSfl thro* reactions huve a l l played an importftiit
part in Kitl&r'a pa/choflaxual development. I t would seen from
the evidence that his aggressive fantftîao toward a the father
reachftd fluch a point that he becnme afraid of the possibility
of retaliatiOD i f his secret deflires wwre diecover*d# Tlw
retaliation he probably feared #aa that hifl father would
castrate hin or injur11 t l ' ganital capacity in s n e w»j*—a
fflar which la 1* tar eipreaaed i t substitute form in hi a
eyphilophobla- Throughout UElP KAMPf he conefl bact to the
topic of fljphilifl again and again and spends alacflt an entire
chapter describing i t s horrors* In. alaost a l l caaea ife find

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that a fftar at t h i s sort ia rooted in a fear of sjetiltal Injury
during childhood. In nany caeea thifl fear waa ao overpowering
that the child abandoned his genital sexuality entirely and

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regressed to earlier stages of Ilbidlrad development. In order

to B&intain thes* rspreasione later in lif 9 ha ufles the horrors
of syphilis a.s B Justification for hia unconscious fear that
genital sexuality 1B dangerous for bin, and also aa a rational"
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Iiation for his aToidanca of situations in which his earlier
desires sight bs aroused.
In abandoning the genital level of libidiaal develops
•ent the individual tieconea impotontftBfar as hatsrosexual

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relations are concerned* I t would appear, frora the evidence,
that some ffuch proêas took ]jlace during Hitler's early
hood* Throughout his «arlj adult l i f e , in Vienna, In the
In Munich, In Landabarg, no iaforniflnt hus reported a hatero-
sexual rolatlonahlp* In £act, the infonnanta of a l l theae
periods make a point of the fact that ha had absolutely no
Internet in women or any contact with theft* Slnc» ho has cooe
to powar his paouliar relationship to POBSH has been so
noticeat>l* that majiy writers believe that h» 1B completely
aaexufil. Some hftTe flnraiiaad that ho miiTered fi genital Injury
during the l a s t war, others that he is homosexual. The formr
T f&r *h±<ik there i s not a flhred of real

aertairOy r&l?e* The second hypo the SIB W* will
later on-
When of_a regresaioti
difCualon the sexual of this kind take plac» ths sexual
instinct umiallj beoonas diffu^s amd oany organs which have
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yiuLded flflw sexual stimulation in the past
invested with taxual significance The eyas, for exupln, may
bacoaa a substitute sexual organ and seoing then takss on a
fcexual s i g n i f i c a n t This » a u to have happened in Hitler's
case for a number of informants have cokmentod on hia delight
in witnessing atrip-teas* and nude dancing numbers on the stag«*
On such accasioDa he can never 3&« enough to aatiflfy hia
tbo^gh hs ueea apora glasses i n oiidar to obflerre »ore
^trip-teaa« artifftfl are frequBntly Invited to the Brown ,
in Vunich, to perform In private and tbera ifl evidonca that He
often invited girle to Berchtengadon for the purpose of exhibiting
their bodiafit On hia wall3 are nuneroua pictured ot obscene
nudes hhlcb conceal bo thing and he takes particular delight
in looking through a c o l l e c t i o n of pornographic pictures •hiab
Hoffjuum has made for hia* We also know the extrame pleasure
b* deriTes froia huge pageant ft, circus perforuancBS, opera, and
particularly the movies of which ha can rarer get enough* Ho
hao told inforBAUtA that he gavo up flying not only because o£
tha danger involved but because he could not see enough of the
country. For this reatton, automobile travel i s hie faTorite
font of transportation, ftont a l l of thla i t la evident that
aaeing has A special Sexual significance for bin* This probably
accounts for his "hypnotic glanca" which baa been the subject
of consent by BO pany writers. Some hav& reported that at tJioir
f i r s t DHtioe Hitler fiaatad th«n with h i s eyas as i f "to bore

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through thea.™ I t 1B also interesting that when the other
parson nests hie etare, Hitlar tump his eyafl to the ceiling
and keeps then there during the interview. Then, too, re nurt
not forget that la the aosent of criaia hia fcjrsterical attack
nanifasted Itself in blindneaa.
In addition t o the eyas, the jural region hfitP ALSCJ
beconft highly Mnualiaed and both faacafl and buttocJte becomo
objects* Due to aarlj t o i l s t training, cBrtfttn inhibitiona
been Bet up which prevent thftlr direct expression* Howevflr
we find flo maiv instaneaa of tnm^rr of this kind, particulerlj
in aoBcecHon with ae3tnftl topics, that we must eaBuna thfit this
area hn& unusual sexual significance* The nature of this
significance we will consider in a moBant*
The nouth, too* seen3 to ha?e become invested afi an
erogenous acne of great impocrtoncft- Few author a or informaata
ha?* neglected to mention Hitler's podtiliar dietEry habits,
lie consumes tremeodoufl qujantitios of Bweota, candies, cakea«
uhlpped qreaifl, a t c . t In tlw course of fl day ID addition to hitf
vegetable diet* On the other hand, he refuoes to eat neat,
drink boar or flnoks, a l l of which suggest fl&rtain
tabibitiona In this area* In addition 7 ho has a
faar of polaoning by mouth, and has Bhown an obsea&ioTi*l

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pr&oftcupatian fit t i » B with «outh washing* ^heee auggept a
reaction formation or defeoflfl against an unacceptable tendency
to t a i e SMBtiiin^ into hia wmth or get eo»etW.n« out which

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froa one point of view appears to be disgusting* In this

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connection we nmet not forget h i s reaolve to starve hi
to death after, the failure of the Baer flail Put&oh, his
hysterical mutism at the end of the last war, and his love of
speaking* The significance of these we shall consider l a t e r on*
Disturbance of IOTB relations*

Tha seaood effect of hia DOther1^ pregnancy was hi a
estrimgeiient frost her* The direct result of this imat on tha
one handj an ideftHiatlon of IOVB bat without a Eoxual component
tm&t on the other hand, tbe setting up of A carrier against
intimate relationships with other people t ptortlcularly voaen.
bean hurt onoef he unconsciously guards hineelf agaiaat

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hurt in tha future * In iiijJ relationship to his niece,
Gall, he triad to overcome t h i s barrier but he tt&s again .
disappointed and since then has not exposed hiaeelf to a r * a l l j
Intimate relationship either with man or WDDAH. He has cut
himself off froa the world In which love pla/s any part for
fear of Wing hurt end what I o n hfl nan experience l e f tinted
on tha abstract entity—Germany, which, ao we have seen, i s a
eymbol of hifl ideal mother. This i s a love relationship i n
which sex playa no direct part*
Qrieinfl of big
The third outcome of h i s mother's pregnancy wafl t o
arouse en excessive curiosity* The great mystery to children
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unbora child got into the mother1' etomitah and how i t La going
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to get out* Even In caoes where the children h«ve wi-tnesoed
parental intercourse ( this e*ent i s rarely linked with the
ensuing pregnancy* Since t in their limited experience, everything
(jets into their fltouacb enters by way of the south and
Og that coned out usually does eo by way or the rectum,
they are prone to believe tbat conception aonehOT takes place
through the mouth and that the child will be born via the anus.
Hitler, as * child, undoubtedly adhered to this belief but this

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did not s a t i s f y hia curiosity* Ht evidently wanted to see for
hiK&ftlf how I t cams out and exactly what happened.
This curiosity laid the foundation for h i s str&nga
perversion which brought e l l three of hid sexual 1 zed zones into
play* In her description of sexual experiences with Hitler r
Gell stressed the fact that i t waft of the utaost Importance
to hia thet she squat over him in such a way that he could see
eYerything* I t i e interesting that Eoehm, in an entirely
different connection, once saldt

n
He (Hitlor) i s thisldag about the
pea flant girl a* ffhen they stand in to*
f i d l d s aocl bend down at their work BO
that you can see their behinds* that's
what he l i t o e , especially Then the/'ve
got big round onoffi That's Hitlwr'a oez
l i f e . What a man,'
Hitler, who was present, did not s t i r n nupcle but only Bt*red .
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Fron A consideration of a l l the evidence I t would
teem that Hitler* & perversion la ad Cell hflfl described It*
Th* greet danger in gratifying I t , however, la that tho indiv-
idual night gat faeces or urine Into hid nouth* I t la this
danger that must ba guordsd againot*
Return to
p o s s i b i l i t y In Infantile thinking precents
itaeLf in t h i s connection- Whan tha hone environment i s hit rah
and brutal, aa i t ma In Hitler 1 6 casa, the small child vary
fraqiiflatly anvi«a ths position of pflftsiTity and sBcuritj the
unborn child enjoys within the Bother. This, in turn, glm
rise to fftntasi»3 of finding a wey la to the longed-for cl&uetnua
and ouatin£ hifl rival in order tliat he may tfiJte hio placa*
Thase fanteaien are usually of very brief duration b«oausfl, as ,
the tshild belieraB, hfi would have nothing to eat or drink
except fa*tee and urine. Ibc thought o£ such a dl*t aroua*B
f H l i n g s qf dieguflt and conoequentlj he abandons h i s fantasiea
in ordar to avoid these unpleasant feelings. In nany
psychotic0, honwrer, these fantasies continue and atfiTft to
express theoaelves overtly* The outstanding b i t of evideaca
in Hltler'a c&fle that such fantaelep were prseent la to be
found in tha Kehlateln or Eagle'G N*at which b# ha* built
for hinaelf near Berchte$gad«n. Interesting^ enough, nany
people have commented that only a madnftn would conoelve of
such a place, l * t alone try to build it* Tram & symbolic point
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of view ons con aaaJQy laagine that this Is a Materialisation
of a child*a conception of the return to the womb*
there Is a long hard road, then a he&vilv guarded entrance> a
trip through a long tunnel to an extremely inaccvsaible place*
There one can be alone, aafo and undisturbed, and revel in the
joys that Hotter Nature bentowp. I t 1B also interesting to

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note that very few people have ever b&eu invited thare and
aany flf Hitler 1 a closest associates are either unaw&re of
i t s existence or have only seen i t froa a diatanca*
arily Ertiou^h, Francoia-P&neet le one &£ tho faw peopla who
ever Invited to v i s i t ttiere. In tha French l e l l o * Bdok, ha
>-IveH ua an extremely vivid doBcriytion of the pine A, n part
of which may bfl worthwhile quotingt

*The approach i s by a winding road about
ninfl nlleB lontff boldly cut out of the
rock»•• tho road cooes to an and in front
of a long underground pasaaga laadiog
into the iflountain, enclosed by a heavy
double door of bronzs* At the far end
of the underground passage e wide l i f t ,
pfisalled with aheata of copper, awaits
the visitor* Through a vertical shaft of
550 f w t cut right through the rock, i t
rise a up to the level of the Chancellor's
dnU-ing place. Hera lo raachad the aston-
ijihing climax* The visitor flnde himself
in a strong and massive building containing
a g a l l e i j with Ronajn p i l l a r s , an Iwienpa
circular hall with window* All around^-.
I t gives th? inpredeion of peing suspended
In BpaQflt an alao^t overhanging wall of
bar a rock rl?es up abruptly» The whole f
bathed ia the twilight of tha autuxd i
i s ^rasdios4 r wild, almost
The visitor wonders whether hs i e
or dreaniog."
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If one were aiJted to plan something which represented & return

to the *onb> oitt could not po&aibly surpass th* Kehl stein.
I t is ftlfio significant that Hitler often r e t i r e s to this strung*
place to Affsit instructions concerning the course he Is to
pursue.
We can pumlse from the psychological defenses Hitler

has set up, that there was a period during which he struggled
against these tendencies. In termfl of unconscious syuboliAn
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ataat ie alnost aynonomouft with faecss sod beer with urine* The
fact thet there i s a jstrict taboo or both would indicate tliat
d#slrefi ara a t i l l present and that i t i s only by
everything symbolising then that ha can avoid
anxieties. fiauAchnlzig reporta that Hitler, rolloving
attributed much of th* decay of our c i v i l i s a t i o n to neat acting.
That the dac&danca "had ito origin in the abdooea^—chronic con-
stipation, poisoning of the juice a, and the results of
to excess." This asaartion sug£4Sts decay (contwdjiat
corruption, pollution, and death) as the rosultant of
pation, that I s , faeces in the gaatro-intestlnal t r a c t , aaid i f
t h i s Is sot decay ni^ht be avoided both by not eating anything
reflanbling f«ecss and by taking purgsB or ejecting ae frequently
AS pobaible* It haa been reported that Hitler ontfl said that
h* WQB confident that a l l nations would arrive a t the point
where they would not feed any more on deed oMaalB, I t Xe
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Ixiteresting to note that according to one of our most reliable

infor&anta Hitler 01117- became * real vegetarian after the
death of his niece, Geli. In clinical practice, one oltaOflt
invariably finds compulsive vflgetarlanian totting in after tfas
death of a loved object*
tie mflj, therefore, regard Hitler's perversion ae a
compromise bfltw»n psychotic tendencies to eat fftfrces And
drink urine on the one hand, ami to live a normal socially
Adjusted l i f e on the other 1 The compromise i s not, however,
satisfactory to eithar side of his nature and the struggle
bat-ween these tw& diverse tendencies continues to rage
* We must not suppose that Hitler gratifies hifl
frequently* Patienta of thi& tjpe rarelj do aud la

Hitler's case it is highly probubl* that he h«^
hinself t& go tfcie for only with h±s niece, GelA* T|»
of this pornerflion represents the loweBt daptha of
Masochistic araUTlcatlanfl.
In moat patients Buffering from this perversion the
unconscious forces only ^ t out of control to this degree when
a fairly etron£ love relatioaahip is. established and «exu«llty
vakes decisive demands. In other cases where the love
component i s lo&a strong the Individual contents himself Witt
leas degrading actlvitiea* This i s brought out clearly in the
case of tone yuelleir 1I10 confided to her director, Zeissler
(&EL), who hod asked her ihat was troubling ner aftar
an evening at tha ChanaeLlorr, "that tho eveolag before ahe
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had been with Hitler and that she had been pura that ha was
going to bfiw intercourse with her; that they had both undraflMd
And were apparently getting ready for bod nheti Hitler f e l l on
the floor and begged her to kick hia. She demurred: but h*
pleaded, with her and condemned himself as nnwojrthjf he&ped a l l
kinds of accusations on hie own head and Just grovelled around ,
In an agonizing manner. The scene became Intolerable to her
and she finally acceded to his wishes and kicked him* This
excited him greatly and he begged for more and sore, always
eftyiog that i t was even better than he debarred and that he was
not worthy to be in the flame roon with her* As she continued
to kick hijn he becajos tiore ^"^ nore excited **»+" Rens Uuoller
CDnnLittea suicide shortly after thia experience* At this plae«
i t Might be well tc note tnflt Eva Braun, his present female
companion, hA« twice attempted pulcide, Geli was either
uurder«d or committed suicide and Unity klitford has attempted
suicide^ Rather en mmsual record for a man who hA8 hJid BO
few affairs with woman*

Hanfateepgl, Strasser and Rauechnln;t as well &B
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several other informantBj have reported that eren 1P
whan Hitler ia enitten with A tfirl, he tends to grovel *t
fast in a moflt die gutting manner. Hera, too, he insist* oa
tailing the g i r l that he Is unworthy t& Id an her hend or to
a i t near her end that he hopes &ho w i l l be k>nd to hin, etc*
From a l l of thia we SOB the constant struggle against couplet*

degradation whenever any affectionate components enter Into

the picture. I t now becâigs clear that the only way La rtiich
Hitler can control these copraphzmie tendencies or
milder manifestations is to iaolate hineelf from any
relationships in vhlch n m feelings of Affection or love
might .assort thonsfrlTeti. Aa soon as 3uch faalitige are arouaod,
he feela compelled to degrade hlwself in the eyes of the loved
object and eat their d i r t figuratively, if not l i t e r a l l y . These
tendencies disgust hie just a a much as they disgust ufl, but under
these circuiiatcnces they get out of control arid lie despises
himself end condemns himself for hi a weaJuioas* Before cofloideriag
fi«*ther the effects of thie struggle on his manife&t behavior,
i we niu&t pause for a motaeot to pick up another thread*
femininity »
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We notice that in a l l of thaee activities Hitler playe

tha passive role* His behavior i s masochistic in the extreme
iuaamuch aa he derives sexual pleasure from punishment iafHcted
on hi* own body. Thpre is eVury reaaon to suppose that during
his early jesTB, inflteed of identifying himselT iflth hia father
as noat toyfl do, he identified himself with hla bother, This
was perhaps easier for him than for moet boyfi since, as wa bans
aeen, there in a large feminine component in hi* phyaical makeup.
His Bother, too, m s t have been an extremely masochistic in-
dirlduAl or abe n e « r rould hav« entered into this
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nor would she have endured the brutal treatment from her1
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An emotional identification with his mother would,

therefore, carry him Xa the direction of a pasgive, sentimental,
abafiive and Bubals give fc-rn of adjuatBent. Wany writers aitd
informants hav» comrontad on his feminine charactarieticji—bis
gftit, h i a hands, his BiBiiAflriAina ismd ways of think Ing.
reports that when he showed Dr. Jung a 3pecLran of Hitler *9
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handwritingy the l a t t e r iumodifttely oxclaimad thftt I t was a
typically feminine hood* Hi a choice of art as a profession
hi^bt also ba interpreted ae a nanifnatation of a baoic
idfliitification*
There are definite indications of such an emotionfil

^juatnent 1ftter in lif*« The outatandi[>g of these is perhaps
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hie behavior towards ois officers during the ls^t war* Hi a

comradse repcrt that during the four years he was in aarrlce
he WSB not only over-aubmlaElva to a l l t i p officer* but fre»
quently volunt&erad to do their washing and take cara of their
clothes * This would certainly indieat& a strong tendency to
FLD3\U» the fsjainine role in the prasenco of a masculine figure
whsnflTOj- this WEB feasible and could be duly rationalised. His
extreme sentimentality, his enotloaality, his occasional eoftnesa
and his weeping, aven after he bicmoo Chancellor, say be
regarded aa pmnoifeatfttiona of a fundamental feminine pattern
which Undoubtedly had i t s origins in his relationship to hiB
nothar* His peraiatent fear of cancer, which waa tha
illness fron which hi a mothar diedj nay also be coddiddred ad
an expression of hie early identification with her*
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Although we cftnflot outer into e discus a ion
the frequency of this pheuoatnon in Genany, i t Bay be s e l l to
note that there i s sociological evidence which would indicate
that i t i s probably extremely common* If further research
on the subject ehoild corroborate thia avidencft, i t night prove
of extreme value to our psychological warfare prograft insofar
aa i t would give us a key to the understanding of the be pic
nature of the German male character, and th& role that the
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Mas! organisation plays in their inner life*
The grftat difficulty is that this fora of identifi-
cation early in l i f e carries ths individual in the direction of
passive honouexuality* Hitler has for years been Bu&pected, of
being a homoseaaml, although there 1B no reliable evidence that
.* hLS.Jm* actually engaged in e relatiouahip of this kindi BauschnLog
reports that he ha8 net tiro boya who claimed that they were
HI tier 1 B honoaexusl pertaere, but their taBtiaony can scarcely
bo taken at Its face ralue* More condeitnin^ voul^ be the
rerwrKs dropped by Foeroter, the Dansig Gauleiter, in converaationa
with RaiuJchnirg. Even hore, hovever, the romarka deal on^y with
Hitler's impotence as far sis heterosexual relations go without
actually implying that h# Ibdulgee In homouexuality^ I t ie

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probably trua that Hitler c a l l s Foerster ^flubi", which i s a
common nickname employed by honoeexufllo in oddreDsing their

partners* This alone, however^ 1& not adequate proof that he
hftfl Actually indulged in homosexual practice a with Joorster, who

i s known to be a hojnosoineJ.•
The belief that Hitler In homosexual haa probably
developed (ft) from the fact- that he does aho* so many f«nliliiie
characteristics t and (b) fron the fact that there were Bo many
honoflexuels in the Party during the early days andr«any.
continue to occupy important positions. I t doea peep that Hitler
feels much mors at ease with honoeexuale than with normal persons,
but thlfl tey be due to the fact that they are a l l fundamentally
social outcasts and consequently have a community of i n t e r e s t s
which tends to make them think and feel mare or lees alike* In
this connection i t i s Interesting to note that homocexuftle, too,
frequflutly regard thewftelveft as a flpacial form of cnfretôn ar
as chofiet) ocee wboae dedtiny i t i e to i n i t i a t e a oew order-
The fact that underneath they feel theaeolvefl to be different
and ostrtciaad froa normal social contacts d u a l l y makee then

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»A«y convartti to & new aoclfcl philosophy which doau not
crlffiinatfl against them* Being tibang c i v i l i s a t i o n ' s
thej are alwayfl willing to take a chanc* of flonethlng new which
holds an/ pronlBa of improving Uteir l o t f eTen though their
chances of success may be aniall and the risk great* Having
little to lose to begin with, Uiey can afford to take chances
which others would refrain fron taJcing* The early Nazi party
certainly contained many members who could be regarded in t h i s
light• E*ea today Hitler derive* pleaeure from looking at aen'a
bodlea and apaocieting with homosexual?* 3trasaer t e l l s u*
that M B personel bodyguard i s almost always 1<K#

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He alao derives aon aider able pleasure from being with his
Hitler Youth and ftitt attitude towards the* frequently tend*
to be more that of a woman than that of a man*
There in a possibility that Hitler has participated

in a homooexual relationship at eoae tine in. hie l l f e i Ttia
evidence la such that we can only a ay there is a strong tendency
in this direction fthlch, in addition to the
already enumerated, cften finds expression ir. imagery
beijig attacked from bshind or being stabbed in the back* Hi*
nightmares, which frequently deal with heing attacked by a man
and being suffocated, also Guggeet strong homoeexuel tendencies
and a fe«r of theoa* From these indications, ho*over, we would
conclude that for the most pert these tendencies have been
repressed, which would epp&k against the probability of their
being expressed irt overt Torn* On the other hand* persona
suffering frob bis perversion eoDetlmeA do indulge in hoao-

sexual p r a c t i c e l a the hope that they might find sexual gratif-
ication* Evert this perversion would b* more acceptable to
then than the one vith which t h e / are afflicted,
Early flflhool
The foundAtiona of a l l the diverse pfttt«rna we havn
been coneidflring were laid during the f i r s t years of Hitler 1 *
life* llaziy of theB, as we have ieeti^ were due primarily to
the peculiar structure of the hove, while others developed
from constitutional factors or false int*rpretations of
their origin a may have been t they did s e t up anti-social
tendencies and tensions which disturbed the child to a high
degree. Frott hi* e a r l i e s t days I t would aeon he mist have
felt that the world ISB A pretty bod place ia which to liv»#
To hi* i t must bars aeemad aa though the world FftB f i l l e d
with inBurmountAble haaards and obstacles which prevented him
froa obtaining adequate gratification, and dangers which would
Menace hi? well-being i f he attempted to obtain them in a direct
manner. The result was that an unusual amount of bitterness
against the wor^jd end the people in i t becane generated for
which he could find no suitable outlets. Aa a young child he
unfit have been f i l l e d vith feelinga of inadequacy r anxiety and
guilt which made hlx any thine ^ ^ a happy child*
I t would seen* •hoF8verJ that be jaaaage^ to repress
Boat af hi a troublesome tendencies and tfike A temporery adjuafr-
•ent to a d i f f i c u l t envirorunent before h« waa s i i ycar^ old t
because a t that tiiw ha entered School and for the next years
he was an unusually good student* AH' of the report cards
that have been found from the time he entered school u n t i l hft
wa& eleveu years old, show an almost unbroken line of ™A'»" in
a l l hia school flubjectp* At the age of eleven the bottok
dropped right out of hia academic: career, Pton an MAn student
bjt Suddenly dropped to a polia where he feil*d l a alabat a l l

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hi* subjects and had to repeat the year. This anasing about-fAea
only bacopee l a t s l l l f i b l e when we realize that hiB baby brother

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died a t that ti*e* We tan. only sundae that thie event served
to reawaken his earlier conflicte and disrupt bia psychological
equilibrium*
In Hitler's case we nay suppose that thia event Affected
him in a t leant two important waya, First, i t munt have reawakened
fears of his own death whicht id turn, strengthened e t i l l further
the conviction that he was the "chosen one1 and under divin* pro-
tection* Second, i t would seem that be connected the death of
his brother with hie own thinking and wishing on the subject*
Unquestionably* he bated this intruder and frequently thought of
how nice i t would be If he were removed from the scene. Uncon-
eciouely, if not consciously, be must have f e l t that the brother 1 a
death was the reault of his own thinking on the subject*
accentuated his fealloga of guilt on the one hand, while i t
Atrengthened s t i l l further hia belief in special powers of
Divine origin on the other* To think about theeo thing* was
alnoat eynoncnoua with having then cone t r u e . ID order to
avoid further guilt feelings be had to put a curb on his thinking
processes* The result of t h i s inhibition on thinking was that
Hitler the good student TOE transformed into Hitler the poor
student* Not only did he have to repeat the school year during
which th« brother died, but ever after his academic performance
was u d i a c r a , to say the least* Rhen we examine biff l a t e r
report cards, wa find that he dose well only in such subjects
RB drawing and. g7vpa&tlca, which require no thinkings In a l l
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the other eubjecte such afl nathen&ticfl, languages or history,
which require son? thinking, his work Is op the bord&rlinft—
sometimes satisfactory Andflametdjiieûnsatisfactory*
We can «A ally imagine that i t was during this period
that the father's ire was aroused and he began to bring pressure
on the boy to apply hi&sfllf in hie school work and threatened
dire consequences i f he failed to do BD» Prom sociological
evidence I t woulfj seem that this la about the age at which moat
German fathers f i r s t take, a real interest in their sons and
their education. If Hitler 1 s father followed thic general
pattern, we can assume that he had cause to bs irate At his
aon1 B pflrformanca* The constant struggle betireen himself Bind
h i s father, which he describes in HKltt KAtfPF, i s probably true
although the motivations underlying h i s actions were in a l l
likelihood quite different from those he da scribes. He wad
approaching the adolescent period amJ t h i s , together with bi£
l i t t l e brother's death, served to bring atony dormant attitudes
nearer the surface of consciousnsac*
Uany of thefie attitiiiefl new found expreeelcn in the
father^BOD relationship* Briefly enumerated these would be
(aj rejection of the father as a modelj <b) an inhibition against

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following a gamer which denanded thinking; (c) the anal tendsncies
which fwod an outlet of expression i n aneariiigj (d) his pap£ive,
taadencles, and (e) hie masochistic tendencies and h i s
to be donlnat«d by a atronj Dfisculloe figure, Oa v&«

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not, however, ready for an open revolt for he t e l l s us in. hie
autobiography that he believed passive nidistance and obstinacy
were the beet course and that If he followed than long enough,
h i s father irouLd, eventually relent and allow him to
acbool and follow an a r t i s t ' s career. Afl a matter of fact,
hie brother Alois, let 1950, before the Hitler myth Has
66tab 11 shod, reported thflt hie lather never had any objections:
to Adolph'e becoming an a r t i s t but that he did demand that
Adolph do well in schools from this v« night surmise that
the friction betvaen father and BOB. waft not determined so »uch
by Ala choice of A qareer as by unconscious tendencies: which

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were deriving Bfltisfaction ftoo the
Later fleôol
He carxJLad the flame pattern Into the schools iihere h*
vac foreTer antaôniaing his teachers ftnd tha other boys* He
has tried to create the iispreflfiion thflt he Wftfl a leader Mong
h i s claatjustsa, which in almost cartaialy f e l a e f Uore reliable
evidence indicates that he maa unpopuliur among hie claasaatep
fia well dfl among his teachers Fho conflidered hia lB^yfr uncoopajf-
atiTa and & troublft-anfcar. The only teacher during these years
witii whon heTOOable to got alone me Ludwi^ Poetsch, an
ardent German Hat Ion fill at* It lould be an error, however, to
truppose that Poetsoh inculcated the a* D&tionali&t feelingo In
Hitler- I t ifl uuch nore logical to assume that a l l thees
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Poetach ami that Me nationalist teachings only offered Hitler

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a new outlet Tor tba expression of h i s re prepaid etpotionc* It
was probably during this period that he discovered a r&seublence
between the young state of Germany and his mother, and between
tba old Austrian monarchy and his father. At t h i s discovery
ha promptly joined the Nationalist group of Students who were
defying the authority of the Austrian s t a t e . In this way he mtu
able to proclaim openly his love for his noUier end advocate the
d«ath of h i s father* These ware feelings ha had had for a long
tins but wae unable to express* Now he wad able to obtain partial
gratification through the use of symbol**
The death of Ilia f>thar»
ThAfl probably served to increase th* Trictioji between
father and Ban, for in flpite of what Hitler says tfre bftat svidance
to indicate that the father wap anti-German in hie
. This eâin placed father and soil on opposite Bides
of the fence and gave thea new cause for h o s t i l i t y . There ia
no tailing how tblfl would have ForJwd out i n the long m a becau»
while the straggle between the two WHB a t i t s height, the father
f e l l dead OD the street- The repercus&ioue of this evmt Must
t a w bflftn severe and reinforced a l l those feelings which we have
described i n connection with th» brother's death. Again, i t
have m w d like a îlfiliaant of a wish and Again there
heTB bean severe feelings of g u i l t , with aa addLUonal inhibition
on ' thinking proCOBCOB*
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Bid school wort continued to decline and i t
that in order to avoid another complete f a i l u r e , he was taken
fron the school at Lin a and cent to school in Steyr- He
managed^ to complete the year, however, with nsrka which were
barely satisfactory* I t was while he wne there that the doctor
told bin that he had a disease from which he would never recover*
EUB react ion to thie w&« BflT&ra since i t brought the possibility
of M E own dearth very much into the foreground and aggravated
a l l hi* childhood fears, Tbe result wad that he did not return
to school and finish his course, but stayed et hums where be
lived a l i f e which WDE narked by passivity. He neither studied
DOT worked but apent noat of hie time in bed where be *«s again
spoiled by hie aether who catered to his eFery need despite her
poor financial circuaostancea*
Ooe could BuppoBQ that t h i s was the materialisation of ._ .
hlfl conception of Partdlae irwoinxch ae i t reinstated an earlier
childhood situation which he had always longed far. I t would
aeen from hip own account, however, that things did not go
too amoothly, for he write* i n VEW
"ffihen at the age of fourteen, Uie young

aan ifl diffmlflfled from school* i t la
d i f f i c u l t to flay which ifl worse; his un-
believable ignorance as far aa knowledge
and ability are concerned, or the biting
impudanca of hie behavior combined with
an ixnorality which Bakes one's hair stand
On ertd,,. The throa year old child hafl now
becQtM a youth of f i f t e e o who de^plaea
a l l authority*»#i»w be loitera eb(Htt( and
God only knows when he CDUBB
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We can ijmgina th* defitt* of h±e brother and hia father in rapid
succession hod filled him with such guilt that he could not
enjoy tiiis i d j l l i e situation to th# f u l l , Perhnps the situation
aroused desires in hini which he could no longer face on A
conscious lewal and he could only keep these in check by either
reainintug in bed and playing the part of & helpless child or
absenting hluself from the situation antirely* In nfcy eaas, ha
ump-t haTfl bfl*n a considerable problem to h i s mother who diad '
four jfl&arB after his fftther, Drt Bloch informa us that her
great concern In dying wast Vhat inould became of poor
Adolph, he ifl s t i l l po young*" At this tine Adolph Wde eighteen
poors of ago. Ife had failed at school and had n&t gone to
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work* He describes himaelf a t this time as a niUt-aop, which
he undoubted^ wae.
Maiflfllon Bxanlnatlopa to Aoadanv-of
Two sooths beforw hie mother's death lie bad zone to
Vienna to take the entrance examinations for Admission to the
kc&dtutf of Art. At this tims he knew that his mother wnfl in a
critical cdnditlon and that i t mu9 only a nattar of a fer
nontbP before death would overtake her. He kn»vf thorefor*,
that this eapy exlstance at hoste would shortly come to an «nd

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&nd that h» would then have to face the cold, bard world on
hia omit I t ia songtiBieB extraordinary how events in the
lifetime of an Individual f a l l together> The f i r a t day's
aaaignownt on the vxamination tms to draw a picture depicting

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"The Expulsion £tom Par&dlu'. It mx&t have saened to Ma that
Fata bad ohopen thLe topic to f i t his pertonal situation* On
the second day he must have f e l t that Fate was rubbing1 i t in
whan he found the {Laaignment to be a picture depicting "An
Episode of the Great Flood"* These particular topic* i n his
situation rnupt have aroused such intense emotional reactions
within him that he could hardly be expected to do his beet*
Art c r i t i c D aeem to f e e l that he hflo some a r t i s t i c talent avnn
though i t le not outstanding. The comment of the examinera
wasi "Too fen head**71 We can understand this itt view of the
cireumatancaa under which ha hud taken the exaaination.
Death of hla
Ho returned Home shortly after the Bxaainfitlocfl, Ha
helped to look after hia mother who was rapidly failing and in
pain. She died OP December El* 1907 and *aa buried on

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Eve* Wolph was coopletely broken and stood for a
long time at bor grave after the remainder of the faailf bod
n
left* DTf Bloeh sayflt In a l l my career I have never seen
anyone so proatratfl with grief ae Adolph H i t l e r . 1 ttio world
had come to nn and. Hot long after the funeral ho lnft for
Vienna in order to follow in h i s father 1 a footetopa and make
his own way in the world* Ho nada B poor Job of i t , however *
He coiild not hold a job when he bad one, and mink lower and
lower i n the social scale until be wafl compelled to live with
th* drags of
AB he writes about theaa experience^ in HEIN

on* gets the impression that i t was a tei-rifie struggle against
overwheLidnc odds* From irtiat we no* know of Adolpfa Hitler i t
would MAD Hire likely that this existence yielded hi* consid-
erable gratification in spite of Its hardships. It ie perfectly
clear from *hat Hinlflch n i t e a that with a vary snail amount of
effort he coultf hay* and* a fair living and iaproTWl his con-
dition bj painting wftter-colm-fl. He refuaad to asks this effort
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and preferrvd to live iik the filth and poverty nhich surroundod
hiau There mist heve b*en Boms thing in thin that he liked,
consciously or unconsciously. Whan we exaolne H&rdHcli'a book
carefuny, we find tha a n e w . Hitler's l i f e in Vienna was
one of extreme passivity in which aetivily w*s held i t the
lowest level consistent with surriTal, He fleenad to enjoy
taing dirty and OTBH filthy in his appearance and personal
cleanliness* Thia can jaaan only ona thing, from a psychological
point of view, nanaly^ that hla perrereion was in the procoee
, of maturation and was finding gratificntlon in a more or less
symbolic fom. Bis attitude during this period could b« sun-
Hiarl&ed IIL the. following termst "1 enjoy nothing aora than
to l i e around while too world defecated on •w." And he
probably delighted in being corered with dirt, wfalcli nm*
tangible proof of tho fact. Even in these days he lived in
a flophouse «Hlca wad known to be inhabited by men who lent
ttejaaelrea to hottOflenuil practices, and i t was probably for
t h i s reason that he wag listed on thfl Vienna police record
JIH a "sexual pervert*"
Nobody has ever offered an explanation of why he
remained in Vienna for over five j-ears i f hia l i f e there was
as difltasteful and the c i t y disgusted din to the degree that
lie claiaa in hie autobiography. He was free to leave whenever
he wished1 and could have gone to his beloved Germany ywarfl
earlier i f he had so desired* The fact of the matter i s that
h& probably derived great aasochlstic satisfaction from hie
miserable l i f e in Vienna> afld i t nflfl not u n t i l his pervaraion
beg am* full-blown and he realized, i t s implications that he
t o Uudioh at the beginning of 1915 •
Vith the d«v«lopiDdnt of hia perverse tendedciep va
find the daTQlopment of hie anti-Semitism. There i e
no evidence that he bad any *nti-$ataltlc feelings
before Iw l e f t Lit)* or that he had any during th» if ire t y*arfl
of his fltay In Vienna* On the contrary, he waff on the very
boat terns with Dr. filocb while he was In Lin* and sent h i s
postcards with vory warn aentljientfl for &on& tl«9 after he
went to Tlfldtin* Purthernore, hio filoeeat friends in Vienna
ware Jewpj aoite of wtflM were extrenelx Iti^d to hi»* Then, too,
we auflt r&naniber that h i s godfather, who lived in Vienna,

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wae & Jew ana It Is possible that during hi* first year there
he night have lived with this fa&lly* Moat of the records of
his mother's death are incorrect and place the event exactly
one year after i t had happened. During this year Hitler lived
id Vienna but we have no clus aa to what he did or ho* he
managed to l i v e without money during thio lntervwaing year.
All we know i s that he had tine for painting during thifl period
for he submitted the work he had done to the Academy &f Art
the following October. He WAS not admitted to the examination,
however r be Cause the examiners found the work of t h i s period
unsatisfactory* Shortly afterwards, he applied for admission
to the School of Architecture but was rejected* The cause of
hie rejection was probably inadequate talent rather than the

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fact that he had not coupleted his course in the Reelscbule*
It is only after this happened that we find bin going to
work a a a labor or on a construction job, and from than on
we hava a f a i r l y couplete pictura of his activities*
Tie know that he had vtry l i t t l e money when he l e f t
Linn, certainly not enough to 11** on for elsoot an an t i r e
rear while he spent hie tine in painting* Since the date of
hia mother's death hae been so universally distorted, i t would
seem that efforts ware being madft to cover aonething which
happened during thia interTening year- Uy gueae would be that
he liTed with his Jewish aodperente who supported bin while
he me preparing work for the Academyi When he failed to bo

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adnittad a t tha end of a year, they put bib out and nade bin
go to work* Thar&.is one b i t of evidence far this hypothesis*
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Kanisch, ID his book, jieutiana In passing that whan they were
particularly destitute he went with Hitler to v i s i t a well-to-do
Jew whffla Hitler said was his father. The wealthy Jew would
have nothing to do with his end Bent him on hi a way Again* There
is scarcely a possibility that M t l * r r s father was a Jew, but
Hardsell night easily have understood him to sflj- father when he
said godfather* This would certainly make much nore aenae and
would Indicate that Hitler hfld contact with hie godparents
before the v i s i t and that they ware fed up with hifc and would
help hi* no furthnr,

Projection*
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Hitler 1 a out?tending defense nechfuiiflm i s one commonly
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called pro j action. I t i s a techniqufl Xtj which the ago oJT sn

individual defends itself against unpleasant impulses, tendenciea
or characteristics by denying their existence in hJbn&alf while
he attributes the* to others, Innumerable example A of this
aecbnoim could be cited La Ml t i e r ' a cade, but a few will
suffice for purpoosB of illustratiooi
*In the la#t six yeare 1 had to stand
intolerable things from BU,U>B like
PolaJQd**
" I t inuat be possible that the

nation can l i v * I t s life,,-without beiruj
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"Social democracy...directe a bombardment

of l i s a and calumnies toward a t h * ad-
versary who deeded most dan£«roudf till
finally tha nerve £ of thow who have been
attached give out and they for the sake
of peace, how down to the tinted enemy,"
"For t h i s peace proposal of mine I was

abused, and personally insulted, Hr*
Chamberlain in f a c t sput ujion fis before
the ayefl of the world*t*"
"^.Ît was iti keeping with our own

nssa thftt Eaglnnd: took iho l i b e r t y of a one
day moeting our peac&fud ftctivltr with the
b r u t a l i t y of the violent i t "
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+**rhe outstanding features of Polish
character were cruelty and lacfc of moral
restraint,™
From a psychological point of Flew i t i s not too
far-fatched to suppose that BE the perversion developed and
became utore diflgueting to Hi tier* a ego, i t s demand a were disowned

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and projected upon the Jew, By t h i s process the Jew becead a
symbol of everything "whtcli H i t l e r bated in himflelf, Agalii, hifl
own personal problems and conflicts were transferred fron within
hiracalf to the external world where they assumed the proportions
of r a c i a l and national conflicts*
Forgetting entirely t h a t for year a he not only looked
like a loner class Jew but was aa dirty afl tha d i r t i e s t and na
groat a social outcast, he non began to aao the Jeff as a
soured of a l l evil* The teachings of Schoenerer and Luegar
helped to solidify and r a t i o n a l i i e hifl feeling a And inner

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conviction a + Uore and more he became convincod t h a t the Jew
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i f A nation ir&3 to become groat i t must rid i t s e l f of
this, peatilen&e* Translated back into per&onal tarns

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would r&ad* Ety parvoraion 13 a parasite which sucks
life-blood and i f I an to becoma great I nniflt rid qyself of
this pestilence* 11 Rhen we see the connection between his
aexu&l perversion and anti-Senitian, ire can untierpt&nd another
aspect of his constant linking of syphilis with the Je** TheQe
are th» things i?tiich dflBtroj- oationa and civ.iliafltions AS a
perversion destroys an individual. \

Tbo griMiter the demanda of his perversion
tha more he ha tad tha Jens and tha more he talked againat than.
Everything which wafl bad was attributed "to then* Here irae
his p o l i t i c a l career in an embryo fittite. He now fipent most of
his ti»ft reading books t attandio^ political talks ftnd reading
in cafe hou&es. He hindelf t e l l s us .in So nany
words that h& skipped through this aaterial and only took out
partfi which were useful to hi»* In other words, ti«
was not reading and Its ten ing in order to becoma educated
sufficiently to form a rational judgment of the problem* Thia
would have bead a violation of his earlier inhibition on
thinking. He read only la order to find additional Ju&tifi-
cation for his own inaer faelinga and convictions and to
rationalize his projections* He haa continued tbiP technique

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Up to the present t i n s - He doflfl & great daal of reading on
many diverse subjects but he never forme a rational opinion in
ths l i g h t of the idfomatlOD but only pays attention to thoflfl
parts which convince bin that he was right t o begin with.

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ls- the evening he would return to h i s flophouse and
harangue hi8 aaaociatea with political and anti-Saul t i c speeches
until he became a JoJce. This, howvar, did not disturb him
too nuch. On the contrary, i t &eemed to act as a stimulant
for further reading and the gathering of more arguments to
prove hie point of view. It waa as though in trying to conTlnce
otharp of the dangers of Jewish domination, ha was really
trying to convince himaeif of the dangers of being dominated
by hia perversion. Perhaps Hitler i s r e a l l y referring to hift
perversion when he
"During the long pre-war yoare of

certain pathologies! features had cer-
tainly appeared* „ Thero were many signs
of decay whict ou^ht to hara atimulated
Herlou3 reflection. 1 (iff, S15)
The aaae may also be true when ha sayat
"How could the German p e o p l e s political

instincta become so morbid? The
Involved here TUB not that of A
symptom, but Inotances of decay
flftrad up now in legion**,ihich i l i e
poluonosis ulcers ate into the nation
now here, now there, I t aeettwd as
though a continuous flow of poison
driven into the farthest blood
of thia one-ttnu) heroic body by a
po«er^ so afl to lead to erer more
pajralyeis of Bound reea&n and of ^ e flimpla
Instinct of flalf-preaervatlon-" (MK, £01)
Afr tine went ob the sexual stimulatiou of th»
aeemed to aggravate the dejeands of hie perveraion,
suddenly became overwheLned by the role thfct MX plays in
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for him "the symbol of incest* and he suddenly l e f t i t to sank
refuge with hio Ideal mother, Germany. But his pre-war days
In Uunich were not different frou these he l e f t behind la
Vienna, His l i f e was s t i l l one of e/xtreae pa&aivity and
although wofcnowl i t t l e about t i e * m can Bwmipe that bis
dayfl were Tilled with Inner troubles*
^ a ; firflt World War-
Under these c Ire LIES tanoefl, we can under stand why he
thanked God for the f i r s t World flax* For aim i t represented
cm opportunity of giving up his individual wax against him self
in exchange for a national war in which he would h&Tie the
help of others. It also represented to him, on an unconscious
l e v e l , an opportunity of redeeming hid nother And assuming a
nuisciiline role for himselT. JSven at that tine we may
he had inklings that he would be tho Gr*at RadaeBBfir. It
not only hi& Bather he HAS goiiifi to redaeu, tmt also himself*
Hla adTent in the German Army was really his f l r o t
step in attempting to redeem himself AS a social human being.
Mo longer was he to be tha underdog for he i a s Joining fareas

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with those who were determined to conquer and become great•
Activity . replaced Ms earlier paaaivily to a large degree.
Dirt, f i l t h , and poverty wore l o f t behind and he could
mingla with the chosen people on an equal footing. But Tor
hi* this was Dot enough. Aa we have pointed out in an earlier
section, he waa not content to be as clean as the

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soldier- tie had to go to the extreme and begone axcoud-
ingly clean* Whenever ha returned frop, ttia he' immediately
Hat down end scrupulously removed every speck of mud from his
much to the auruaament of hift coeredtiH* Hand,
comrade during this time^ rolfttes an oxp&rlence at the front
Then rtltlar upbraided one of th* other man for not keeping hiuself
clean mid called him a "naming pile", which souuda Tory much like
a memory of himself in Vienna.
During this period t 9$ previously aentlonsd, h i s passive
feBinine tandenclep were finding an outlet In his abaflivo conduct
toward hifl officers * I t looka as though he had not prograea*!
auffic i a n t i / far ID bifl conqueat of himself to maintain a wholly
masculine role* Bat with the help of others and the guidance of ^
hie respected offlc»r» be waa making some progrsae toward what

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Appeared to be a eoclal Adjustment. The final defeat of Germany,
however, upset his well-laid piano and shatter&t h i s hopep and
Thfl defeat of
, i t wms t h i s event which proved to lie the
i n hin l i f e and determined that be would be an
outstanding succeae rather than a t o t a l failure* UnconaciouB
forces, some of which had been dormant for TMTfl, were now
reawakened and upset his whole pflychelogical equilibrium* His
reaction to ihifl ewnt wme an hysterical attack which aanlfefited
itself in blEi&eBS^MWftia.. Althongh the

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saved hito fron witnessing what he reguried a* AD
apactacle, I t did not seTOnhtv iV.on rthe y;ioXflni >iiotionni
raactions i t aroused* These emotions, ire 111A7 Bsaune, ware
similar to those which h* bad eipsrienced as a child when he
discovered h i s parenta In intercotir&a. I t seetne logical to
suppose that at that tin* he f a i t hie mother waa baing defiled
bafora his eyefl but in view of h i s fatherâ potter and brutality
he f e l t Mj&soLf uttarly helplsdo to redoam her honor or to
savfl her tram, future adfiaulU. If this i s truo, we would
«xp44t that he Swore Secret vengeance against his father and,
as had baan shown, there 1? evidence to this effect*
Now the flama thing was happening again but'
at hia real mother i t waa h i s i d e a l mother, Germany, who was
bftlng betrajedj Corrupted and hualliatad and again ha waft

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.unable 15 cone to her rescua* A deep depreeaion set la of
which ha writeat
now followad were tarrlble days **"
and STen wortfe nights, Mow I kntn that
eTorything was l o s t . *kIII those nights
j^y hatred arose, the hatred against the
originators of t h i s deed."
But again he was weak and helpleftfl—E. blind cripple lîng In
hospital • He struggled with the problami
shall our nation be freed froa th*

chains of this poisonous embrace?"
I t would stem that the nore ha thought about it> the JBOT& h i s
He probably deflpised and

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condemned himself for hid weakness and as his hatred
to rise in the fact of t h i s fruatrrfl&u^ fejperiaoca hft w*wnd
and there i
"To know neither rest nor patc» u n t i l the
November Crli&ln&ls had bftan oTarthrown* •,"
Undoubtedly h i s ^motions ware extremely violent and
would serve as a powerful fcoti™ for much of the retaliation
which bec&ineB do prominent in hla later bahaTior* There are f
however, naxiy wsyd of retaliating which do not involTa a
complate uphBQTial and tranaf &mation of charactar such as we
find in Hitler at this tine*
From our experience wi-th patients wa know that complete
transformations of t h l * kind usually take placa only under
circumstanceB of extreme duress which demonstrate to the
t h a t h i s present character structure Ia no Longer tenabla* M&turall/

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ne do not know exactly what went on i n H i t l e r ' G Bind during t h i s
period or bow he regardsd hia own position* We do knowt
that under ouch cireitfigtanca* vary fitranga thoughtP and
paaa through tha mindB of r e l a t i v e l y norval people and that l a
the case of neurotic a, p a r t i c u l a r l y whan they hft vie strong
ma so oh 1 s t i c tenrtetieiea, theae f a n t a s i e s oan becona extremely
abffiird* Hhftta-ror tfc& nature of these fani&aiao might hare bo en,
wa nay be reasonably aure t h a t they involved 1 h i s own aaf#ty or
well-being* Only a danger of thJLa magnitude would ordinarily
cause an lndiAfbiA^ftaj ^^ybandoja or re.Toiftttofe&Vjajihis character
atruc tnr a • £> KK CA .•-,-•
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I t may be that his nightBares trill yield A clue*

T si
jca&tar on tha theiâ o f h t t

tfling attacked or subjected t o iodignltlet by another
I t i s iwt his aother who i3 being Attacked, but himself. Whan
be mkea from the£p ni^btaiaraA he acts as though he w*ra
cholilA^. He gftape far breath aid breaks out in a cold s n a t .
I t ifl only wiUi groat difficulty t t a t he c*a bft quiated again
because frequently ther* i s an haliuclaatory after-effinat nsd
he bolUveB he oaefl tha man Lo bis
Under ordinary circumatances, we would be

to interpr^to thia ae the result of an uncondclaua wish for
rulatiods together with an ego ravulaion against
lfltsnt tendency* Thla int&rpretfition night applf to
Hitler, too, for to some extent i t sânt* ae though ha reacted
to the defeat of Crerauiny afl a rupe *f hinself as well aa of
bid Bynbolic nothor* Furthermore, while he was lyLng helpleee
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In the hoapltal, unable to sea or to apeak, he could vtiH have
considered himself an easy object for a homosexual attack,
Vian w* reoesibaTj howevorj that for yoaru he choaa to 11 vo l a
a Vienna flophot»a which WEB known to be inhabited by uany
add l a t e r on associated with s«Y6ral notorious
, euch afl Haas and Ro4hn, we cannot Teal that t h i s
form, of attack, alone, would be sufficient to threaten his
integrity "to oacV'flf'ertent that he would repudiftte his
fornar
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A further clue to hi A thought! during, thlfl period
may be found in taia grea£jy&dccupBticn uith
hia Imagery i s almost Bynonomoua with poison.
* Slogan after slogan rained down on our

people*"
"•**th« front was flooded with thiB poison.
**,*for the effect of i t s language on me

wasHJta that of spiritual vitriol*,»I
Acme tines had to fight down the raga
rising In Ma becauca of this cooceiitrated
solution of
This type of imagery probably haa. a double significance* There
i a considerable evidence to show that as a child be believed
that the pan, during intereourae, injected poison into the
woman which gradually destroyed her from within and f i n a l l y
brought about her death- This i s not an uncommon belief in
childhood and in view of the fact that b i s mother died from
a cane or of the breast t after a long illneda, th* belief may
have been «ore Tlvid and persisted longer in Hitler than in
most children. On the other hand, the importance of poison
in connection with hip perversion has already been considered*
Jto know about hi a inhibitions agninct talcing certain substances
into oia mouth* Ttjeea were not present during tha early days
of his care or but developed much later In connection with h i s
transformed character*
In view of a l l thifl i t «fty not b# too far-fetched

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to duppc feAtatying ahfat what tha
sight do to [] wlken they arrived* his masochistic
perverse tendencies c«jurfld'iip%he'thought that

night attack hin and force hitT*toâftt dung and drink urin*
(a practice which, i t la alleg?^,'Id fairly comaonin Nasi
concentration coups.) * Interestingly enough, this idea is
incorporated la the colloquial expression "to eat the dirt
of the victors** And in his weakaned and helplaas condition
he would be unable to ward off ouch an attack* Such an
hypothesis gains credence when we review the behavior of Nazi
troops in the role of conquerors*
Transformation of character«
Although a thought of this kind would have certain
pleasurable aspects to a •aaochistie person f i t would also
f -•
arouse ffl&r of consequences together with violent feelings

of jpiilt and disgust. If the thought kept rflcurriiig at frequent
intervals and refused to bft suppressed, we can easily taagine
thflt it might drive an individual into auch depths of despair
that death would appear a& the only solution. Hitler' e fear
of diiath has already b»en reviewed and i t ia possible that i t
was thio alternative which shocked him out of his fortaer self.
Certain i t i s that in hie public utterances t as wall as In
his actions, he attributes extraordinary powers to the fear
of death.
"I shall spread terror by the surprls*
employment of my neasurse* The iupcrt*nt
,' thing la the sudden shock of an
,_ whelmiU£ fear «f
iMz-^s*-: r
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And In IE IK KAHPF he t a i l s ua thati
*Io t i e end, only thtuurg* for s e l f -

preservation will etvffaallj succeed* //
Undffr Its prapmir« ao-callsd 'humanltj 1 ,
as the aipraspioti of a nlxtura of atupidity,
p and lnagtnary superior i n t e l l l -
will melt lJJco SOAH under the WiXCb
of t h i s sort Suggest rather Strongly tlwit he wnfl
brought fnaa to face with, ths prospect of hie own death and
that in order to S&Ve hia&elf hfl had to rid h i » e l f of a bad
conecience AB well ap the dictatafl of the i n t e l l e c t * Th«
following quotations Illustrate hi a attitude toward*
and the need of rendering I t inactive:

N
Qnly when the time coBeB when the rac*
ia no longer overshadowed by the con-
sclouaneae of i t e ovn guilty th»n i t will
find iniertial paace and external energy
to cut dona regardleeelj and brutally the
phootfi, and t o pull up the
"Conacianc* i s a Jewish invention* It i s

a bleniflh lllce
"I am freeing uen from the refltraiats of

an intelligence that has talcon charge;
from the dirty and degrading
of ft chimera called conscience and
morality-, »n
And of the int&llact he sayst
"the i n t e l l e c t has grown autocratic and

has become A diseftfle of life* 11
must distrust the intelligence

the conscience and. must place our faith
in our
iuportant husah functions,
ha was l e f t almoBt eni^r&lV ' dt the mepcy of hip paasiono,
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instinct0 and unconscious deaixes* At the crucial
these forcaa aurgad to toe fore In tha form of,
in which an inner voice informed hiw that he, ufi-d$&£ined
to redeem the German people and lead them to grgatnass* This,
for hia* WHS a new view of l i f e * I t opened new vis-US to Kin
particularly in connection with hiueelf. Hot only did i t
confirm the v*gue fueling he had had since childhood* namely,
that he was the "Ghoaen GUQ" and under the protection of
t, but also that he had been jsavmd for a divine
mission* Thiu revelation perved to crystallize h i s personality
on a new pot tern* KB wrltesi

F
Xn tha hours of didtraas^ whan others
dgspalr, out of apparently
, there fihoots suddenly heroes
of death-deiyiBg deterpination and icy
cooln«a£ a£ rflflectioa- If this hour of
t r i a l had never cone, than hardly onyon*
would aver have been Able to guess that
r .. Sd . . . " -..-.. .n - a young hero is hAddtn in Ibw btardleaB .
boy* Nearly aJLvaye ûch an iupetua it
needed in or^ler to call genius late action,
FateTfi h&mmor-stroko, which then throws
the one to the ground^ suddenly strikes
Steel in another j and while now the Shall
of ev&ryday l i t e ia broken, the erntwhile
^ •.-... nucleus l i e a open to the eyea cf the
world*11
In another place he
"A fire had teen ll^htsd, and out of
flaaea thore wafi bound to coma dome day
the fl-word which was to regain the freedom
of the Germanic Siegfried and the l i f e of
German nation**
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How, one may ask, waft i t ^wfitibê for a person vith
t{itlar*e past l i f e and stMtrfcfcl tendeuctoe to
seriously? The answer i e relatively simple. He believed i t
bec&uea he wanted to believe it—in fact, had to believe i t in
order to save himself. All the unpleas an t r i e s of tht past he
now interpreted as part of a great design* Just a& i t was Fate
which ordained he should be born on the Austrian ai£e of the
border, so i t was Fate which sent him to Vienna to suffer
hardships in order to tnJt* the "uij-k-sop out of hlffl by giving
him Dftjfle Sorron as a foster-pother" and "kept hJjs at the front
where any negro could shoot him down when he could have rendered
a much more worthwhile service elsewhere," and so i t was probably
Fate which decre*d his past l i f e end tendencies- These were

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th« crosses he had to bear in order to prove h i s o«ttla. Ha
night have been speaking about himfle.lf "ben he said ojf Germany t
thia battle should mot ccm»f never
would Germany win peace, Gensany would
decay and at the btv% would sink to ruin
like a rotting cor pee. But that ia not
our destiny, W» do not believe that thin
piiaTortun* vhlch today our God sends over
Germany has no oeaningt i t i s atirsly the
Bcourge which {Should and shall drlwe ua
to new greatnesfi, to a oav power and tflory* *."
Before thip new greutneae, power and glory could b*

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achieved, however, i t wad necessary to conquer the misfortune*
The B±sfortiu»j in H i t l e r ^ caflft* so he probably thought, wa»

nffCA*fFjrr;r:AV:r:w
the emotional identification he hed made with h i s mother during
qhildhood. He^tad "Used thia ae a een&a-jfbanc for h i s personality
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and It was responsible ¥fr litto' "humanity * But It also
with I t ft passive, iLaBoehitftlc form of adjustment wtiidb,
Of leading to greatness &s fie had hoped, had carried Mm to
the brinlc of 4egr«d«tioDt humiliation and
It oxpoaad hi* to untold which waro no lonâr
f If he nere to surviv*
suet rid himself not onlj of his conscience and intellect but
of a l l the t r a i t s irtiich Mfire fi^socifi tad with fa lee "humnnlty".
In i t s place he mist set a personality which was in keeping
with tbfl "Law of Mature11 • Only after he had achieved this
iop could hfl feel safe fron attack. To overcome
and to grow strong became the dominant motl™ of
his
",*,r»alti the obligation in accordance Trith

thfl Eternal Tfill that donlnatea this univerae
to promote the victorj of the better and
et>rong6rf and to demand the submission oX
the worse and k
"A stronger generation w i l l drive out the

weaklinga because la itfi ultltiate form
the urgt to live will agfiln and again
break the ridiculous fetters of a flo-
tailed 'humanity' of the individual,
so that Uo place will be takon by the
• bunanity of nature1, which destroys
•aokneao l a order to give i t s place
to
•
If our hypothesis concerning hifl mental
while he lay helpleGa in Paaewalk Hoapltnl ifl correct, we nay

• • —"™—»-^
that in orJit ^Wûit*trW#: f earfl he eometimei Ijsagined
as a person wtifrfflr corpusne4 his enemies in a]_l the

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virile* qualities* Under the an circumstances he could conquer
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hia enemies and do to than Hhflt he new feared thfly would do
to bin* This i a , or course, pur* wishful thinking, but
evidently this play of imagery yielded himflomuch pleasure
that he unconsciously identified himself with thie Buper-man
image.flewould gueau ttart i t was at tho mcnept when t h i s
aechftniom, which IB known &s "Idettification with the Aggressor1
operatedr thet the aforementioned hallucination WAS produced.
He ma no longer the week and pun; individual who wee exposed
to a l l kinde of attacks and indignltiua. On the contrary, ha
ifa.6 fuiniwnentally more powerful thaa a l l Ui» others* Instead
of hid being afraid of them, they should be afraid of hin.
The- image Hitler created waa a form of
for hie own inferiorities> inaecuritiee and g u i l t s
the image negated a l l his former quail tie a and turned then
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into tiioir opposites and to the same degree. All the human
qualities of love, pity, sympathy and compaceJLcn were interpreted
as weakoes&es and diee.ppeared in the
•All paesivlty, a l i inortia,** (became)
j inimical to lift*"
"The Jew i Eh Christ~creed with i t s

effeminate
TTOUare prepared to be p i t i l e s s
you w i l l get nowhere,11
In their place wo find what Hitler's warped bind conceived to
be the euper-naeculine
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t L .--. - -:'*— im J
• i f a people 1B to .become fraa:&t

d pride and fei-pdier, defiance
hate, hate and one*
"Brutality i s reflpaMâcU'. Brutality ™J-

physical strength, ife plain nan in the
atreet respaete nothing but brute 1 strength
and
"n"a want to be t i e supporters of thd dicta-

torship of national reason, of
energyf of n&tiomal - brutftllty and
the "Identification with the Aggressor"

ifl used, however, there i s uo conscious struggle within the
personality in which the new personality gradually overcomes
the old one. The identification takes place outside the
of consciaoianeBg and tha individual suddenly feels that he
this new person. There is no pro tie BG of integration or
ation, The old personality i s automatically suppressed sjid
i t s characteristies are projected onto some external objftct
against which the new personality can cflTry on the struggle
In Hitler'e case, a l l his undesirable characteristics were
projected odtO the Jew. To Hitler he becajne Eril incarnate
ejid responsible for all the world1 a difficulties, just ft«
Hitler '& earlier faminlnity now appeared to him to be the
source of a l l hie personal difficulties* Tills projection
waa relatively easy for him to make inaaouch as in hifl
Vienna days the Jew had become for him.the symbol of aex,
disease and hi a perrer^lon* Now another load of
qualities TOP poured upon hie head with the result that Hitler
now hated and doepifiad the lew1 with'toe *aa».. i a t w s i t y as_

ha hat6d hie forwr oalf*
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Obviously, Hitler could not rationalize his projection
as long ao he etood by himself AS a single Individual,
ha coub&t the Jew alnelB-handad i For this h«, needed^ * luffi
group which would f i t the picture he had created. He found ,
this in dafoated Gennenjr a* fl nhola^ At the close of the nr
i t was In a position &Lnost identical with hia own before the
trans formation had ttken placs* I t , too, wafl weak ami exposed
to furtiier attack and humiliation* I t , too, had to be prepared
to eat the dirt of the conquerors and during the inflation
period i t j too, w s confused, paBflive and helploae* It,
therefore, made an excellent jgynbol Of hie earlier fielf and
Hitler again shifted his peraonel probl*»a. to a national
racial Boole wh^ra- he uould deal with them mere objectively,
had "given11 him the SparJt which trftnufomifed him
* It was now hi A mission to transform the remainder
of tbe Gonaan people b^ winning thfiB to bis view of l i f e and
the Haw Order * The Jews now played the same role In the Ufa
of Germany as hie effeminate, masochistic wad petrarBe adjuat^
nent had played In his own U f a . Ho now resolved to become a
polititiac*
Uanj writera have expressed the opinion that Hitler's
antl-SemltlaiE ia notivated primarily by i t s groat propaganda
Tfllue* Vcdoubtadly, fintl-Somitisni i e the &oat powerful weapon
in hie propaganda araenal and HttfAr]4ft •n!^fL! [.iftraro o f it

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had avail expressed the opinion on ayrftt*^ .aêaaion^ that the

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JBWB would isftlw Germany r i c h . All our lnf pruâts .*fco Jpiew
wall, however, agree that t h i s Is superficial, and that
he hifl * sincere hatred for the Jews and • j j ^ t h l n
i s in complete agreement with our hypothesis, W& do not deny
that he often uaee ^nti-S«mitlm propagflndiGtically when i t
s u i t s hifl purpose. We do maint41n, however, that behind thLe
superficial a&tlvatlon i s a nmch dooip^r on* which i s largely
unconecioup, Juet aa Hitler bad to ajcten&inata hifl former
In order t o get the fealing of being pêat and stroilff, BO
Gernai^ extenninate thfi JawB i f i t i s to attain i t s new
Both ara poisons which slowly deetroj- the respsetiTe bc4i«s
about death*
grant cultures of the past par 1 shed

b«cfiude tho Drig
race died off through
the l o s e of purity of tbjor blood

destroys thq inner happinaefl forever; i t
etarrsally lowers man, and never again can
i t s consequences be renaw&d from body and
The BymbQlipja in these quotations i s obvloup and, the frequency
with which they recur In hi a epeajclng and writing tmars testimony
to thair great ipfportanca In his thinking and feeling
I t would aeen fron this that unconsciously be f e l t that i f he
succeeds in ridding himself of hie personal poiaon, his

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affeminate find perverse tendenclepjs ^ypbalited in the Jsw>
then h» would achieve peraoual

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In hie treatment of the Je*B ira see the
with the AfiET&Bflor" nachnnifi* at wb*k. He Is no*
on the Je*a in rfldlltff the tltU^s he fearsd the rtctors
do to him i n fantasy, Fron tiiie he derivta a manifold
faction* Flrflt, i t sffordo hla an opportunity of appearing
before tha world as th& p i t i l a a e brute ha iw^lnfiB hinaolf to
ba; a4oan<lt i t Affords his an opportunity of proving to himself
that he i s ae heartless and brutal afl be wants to be (that ha'
can really take i t ) ; thlrd^ in ftUjnlnating th* Jowa he uncon-
ocioiiflly f a e l s that he i s ridding hlae*lf, and Germany, of the
poison which la responsible for a l l d i f f i c u l t i e s j fourth, aa
the jnaeochiat he raally ifl, he derives a vicarioua pleasure fro

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the aufferine of others In wham he can B«& hinaalf J f i f t h , he
can gire vent to his b i t t e r hatred and contenpt of the world
In general by using the Jew a a a scapegoat; and sixth, it'
pays haavy material &ud propagandists dividend a >
political career •
Arced nith thia new viav of l i f e Hitler sought for
opportunities to put his resolva to be coir* a politician Lato
effect And stflrt on the loqg road which would redeen Geraany
and lead her to u n greatness and glory, Ihia u s not easy
in poat-war Germany which was now engaged in violent Internal
atrlfe* fie ramalnad in the Ite&e&tatjptrx.tor a tide where he
i n hi a "fifflt p o l i t i c a l actiTFlty"—that of apying on
hie cOMTadce. His duties wero to cain^lo witb the cau in

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barracks and engage then in political î^cuftejboiis. fiiofla
who voiced opinions with a .Communistic flajrgr hi reported T^T"^ SO
bia superior officers, l i t e r , *hen tao offj»v3»ramere ts
to t r i a l , i t w s hia job to take the witness etand and give

the testijnony which would aend these conaradee to their death*
Thta was R aev«ra t r i a l for hie new character but he carried
i t off in a brazen and unflinching manner* I t must have given
him trefiendcus satisfaction to find that h& actually could p3Jty
this new role In cuch an admirable iftBhion. Hot long afterward 6
i t waa discovered that ha bad A teleut Tor oratory and he was
rewftrd&d for his services by being promoted t o inatructori The
Hitler, ths etbryo Fuahrer, WAS beginning to pay divl4*nde,
"Identification with the AgreSBor" la, at b&at, an
•
fora of adjustment* Tho indi-ridual alwaye h*fl a
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feeling that something i s not Juflt (to i t should b«r Although he
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ic not awTire af ltd orlgina. NevarthalesA, he feela

in hia new role and la order to rid hipaelf of hie
he muct prove to himaolf t over and ovar again, that he ia really
the type of person he beli&vsa hitflBelf to be. The reoult ie
a fioow-ball effect. Eircrj brutality must ba followed ty a
greater brutality, every violeaca by a groater violence^ evory
•
atrocity by a greater atrocity• every gain In powar by a

greater gain in poner, and ao on down the line* (Jnle&p this" T
id achieved suoceasfully* the individual begins to feal insecure
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together with feelings of guilt n^vd-lt^ hia
This i s tha key t o an und&ret&&dlng of-Hitler's actions Bine*
the beginning of hie p o l i t i c a l a c t i v i t i * » ' t o the preBdnt day.
This effect has not escaped the attention of non-paychological
observe re* Franc ois-Foncet^ for example t writes, in tb* Jfrencb
Yellow Booki
ChRJiCflJlor chafea ftgftifiat (ill

disappointments with Indignant
Far from conducing h i t to moderation t
obstacles i r r i t a t e him. He i s aware of the
enormous blunder which the anti^Jewiph per-
secutions of last November h&vq proved to
be; y e t , by a contradiction which ie part
of the dictator's pejchologlcal nalte-up, he
ifl paid to b# preparing to enter upon a
narcilefls struggle against thit Church and
Catholic lap, Perbapa be thus wishes to
wipo out the memory of past violence with
freeh violence*•*" ( p , 49)
The mechanism fa ads on iteelf and am at continue to in

to maintain i t e e l f , Since i t has no real foundations to supt-Kjrt
i t , the individual can never quite convince himself that he ie
secure and need fear no longer. The result i s that he can
brook no delays but must plunge ahead on hie mad career*
Hitler'fi p o l i t i c a l oare«r shone thsee tendencies to
a narked degree. Scci-cely had be affiliated himself with the
group which had founded the Party than he connived to get
control over i t * Then followed & rapid expansion of. memberfihii
the introduction of terror, a aeriee of broken promise*, c o l -
lusione and betrayals, £a«ti.knrq£h| Attir.fresh g«ins and tie*

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Putqch and eeiae the reiafl of so^fttftiqfcrt* Tba Futaoh f a i l s d
wad Hitler"a conduct during i t has beeftthe subject of mich
conment. There are a number of ver&ioW cone am ing what
happened* So«e report that when the troops fixed on than
Hitler f e l l to tbe ground and crawled through an a l l e y which
carried hla to pafety while LudendorfJf, Roeha wad Goerittg
marched ahead* Same claim that he stumbledt others that be
knotted down by hia bodyguard mflio wap killed* The Naii
ie that he stopped to pick up a snail child who had
run out into the street and bean knocked downl lears later
they produced a child on the aaniTer&ary of the event to prove
the etoryl
From a pfiychological point of view i t would appear
that he turned coward on t h i s occasion and that he did f a l l
.. , 7. down and crawl away from the scene of a c t i v i t i e s , Although
he had usurped considerable power and had ran son to have faith
in his new cb&rtfcter, i t 3»ems unlikely that i t w&o eufficient
for bin to actually engage the recognised authority i n physical
coabat. Hid Attitude towarda xecoguised supericra and authority

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In KAneral would sake such a direct attack Improbable. Furthsr-
his reactions after hie eac&pe would *een to indicat*
i
that his n*w role had temporarily failed* He went into a
deep clepresbion and waa reatrainvd froa eonmitting auicid*
only by conatant reaamiranaerj- *ffltir* h* ^^jtakwd to lAndeberg
prison he went on a hungnr etrilrt' soi = refused I^?*** r*>r three
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week** This WB a hiB reaponae to baidg placed &g&*p. in

position of the vanquished* Perhaps memorise of his
In the hospital were returning to harass >H»'| I t m* only
after he diacowred that hifl j a i l e r s were not unkindly disposed
to aim that he permitted faljnaalf tfl 04 perflUAddd to tat« food*
During his stay in Landsber-g ha became much quieter.
had done hia a world of good.

Gone from hi* mmn&r waa the
iutenfilty which formerly had been
noflt unpleaBant.
I t ma during this period that he wrote UEIlkl KAUPJ and w nay
suppoaa that hie f&xluro In tbs Putsch mad« i t nece&uary for
him to take a ffoflh inventory add integrate hi a new character
Bore f Lnnljt He rasolv&d, at thie tiiuo, not to try another
Futach In the ftitura but to gain thfi povar by legal osane alone I
In oihar wcrds, he wcmld not? perUcipftte agîn In *n
conflict with tha recognised
Hla riea to
I t is scarcely necessary for ua to trace the history
of/ biff riae to power and hie action* after ho achieved it*
They all follow along tho saute general pattern wo hav* outlined»
Each successful step served to convince hJji that he wafl ths
person he believed, hiuself to bt but brought DO real senae of
security* In order to attain thia he bad to go a atep
r
and give additional proof that he we a not deluding

Terror, violence and ruthlasgneaa grew^^jQttDwach advance i
every recognised virtue was turned Into a vice—a aim of

waaJcness. Even after he became the iw&iapnted leader
nation* he could not rest In peace* He projected nifl own * / £
inaecurltlen onto the neighboring atfltse and then demanded th*t
they bow to hia powaa-, is long fie there use a nation or a
Combination of nations more powerful than Germanyt he could
find the peace and security he longed for. It was
that this course would lead to war because only
by that m«anfl could he amah the threat and prove to himeolf
that he: need no longer be afraid* It was also inevitable that
the war would be as brutal and pitiless as possible for only
in this way could he prove to himself that he waff not weakening
in hie chosen couxfl* but was made of stuff b a coming to his
conception of what a victor ahould
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of the operation of the various psychological atreams ve hav*
enumerated t in the determination of his everyday behavior r a
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few have aroused sufficient speculation to warrant « plac^
in our study. One of the outstanding of these is his rages*
boet writers have regarded these &a temper-tantrums, his
reaction to minor frustrail ons and deprivationo. On the
surface they appear to be of thia nature end yet, when w«
fitudy hie behavior carefully, we^f^pd that when he Is • -
confronted by a real frustration or deprivation, ouoh as

failure to be elected to tha Preaidancy ot bfc±H£
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the Chancellorship, his behevlor ia exactly thn opposite. K*
V i s very cool and qui#t. He Is disappointed but not enraged*
Instead of carrying on lilce a spoiled clftid; he beg in a
to ley plana f&r a nt* aaaault* H*idan> his biographer,
his charaeteriptlc pattern as follow?t
"Whan others aTtor s defeat would twva

toms dospoudejstlr, coneoHng theufielves
Tilth ths philosophic reflection that It
wan no UP* contending against adrerse
stances, Hitler delivered a second and a third
assault with Julian defiance* ffh&ft ethers
ftfter a succaae pould have become more CAUtxoue,
because they would not dare put fortune to the
proof too often and perhaps exhaust i t , Hitler
ptr3ioted and staked a bigger claim on Destiny
with every throir."
This doefl not sound like a person irho would fly Into ft rage at
a trifle*
Nevertheless, we know that h,e does f l y into these
rages and launches Into tirades on very slight provocation, . If
we exejJJlne the causes of those outbursts^ we almost Invariably
find that the trigger which sets them off i s something which
he coQBld^ra to be a challenge of his super-oan
I t nay be a contradiction, ft critlcien or even a doubt
the truth or wisdobi of aomethlng he has said or done* or i t
night be a alight or the Anticipation of opposition* Bran
though the subject may be triflififf or the challenge only by
implication t or even wholly imagined, he feels called upon to

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detected and described thifl ^Ba<;tâ,^ Jia writesj

*Ihofle who surround hin axe the f i r s t to
adait that he n«jwvtb^KtlcQ bl***!*
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invincible* Thai r*9jpl*in£ why

he can ho longer bear either c r i t i c i s e
or contradiction* To cwttradict hla Is
in hi a eyas & critae of ^l&pe-4ajeeta j ;
opposition to his pXvfiWt-\tfrom whatever
aide i t may c™$, i s a definite aacrileg* r
to which the only reply Is an immediate
and striking display of his omnipotence*"
Aa eoon aa hie display has earved I t s purpose and cowed hla
Into , it ia turned off fifl as i t
wae turned on. How great ip the insecurity which ttonanda such
conatant figilance and appruhenelonl
Faar of domination,
fle find this gewa insecurity at work when he ifi

n*w p&ople and parti cularly thooa to whow ha secretly
inferior in some way. Earlier in our stwly we hod occasion to
point out that hid ey&s had token over a diffuse sexual function*
Khon h« f i r s t meet a the person he fixate* bijp with his aye a &a
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though to bore through the other person. There ifl a jxjquliai*
glint in them oa these occasions which oauy hava interpreted as
an hypnotic quality• To be aura, h» U£g& then in such a way, and
t r i e p to ovvr-pmrer the other person with thnm. If he turns hie
eyee away, Hitler keap? hia fixated directly ou hiai or ber but
if tha other peraan returns this faze Hitler turns hla away and
looks up at the ceiling as long aa the interview continuetu
I t i s es though be were matching his power against the I r s . If
ha ttucceedP in OTtrpowerlng the other person, he pwiely follows
up his advantage. If, however, the bthar'person re fuse u to
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person In a straightforward argument-•,- Ha will express hla

opinion a t length but he will not defend i t on logical
i
Stra&eer sayax
*He i s afraid of logic* Like a wonan

he eTsdeo tha lsûe and ends by throning
la your £&o# an argument entirely remote
from what you were talking about."
Wo aight Duapect that even on this t e r r i t o r y he cannot
hinaelT to a poflsible Safest which would nar the ijcage he
hna oT hljosalf. He I s , in fact, unable to face real opposition
on any ground* Be cannot apeak to a group in which he senses
opposition but walks out on hto audience* He has run out of
meetings with iAidendorff, Gregor Strap aer, Bav&rlsn Industrl-
allstBj and many oiJiera, becauea tie could not risk the possi-
b i l i t y of appearing in an inferior light or expose himself to
a poaeihle doainfttion by another person. There ia reason to
suppose that hifl procrnfltlnation i s not so iiuch a matter of
laziness as i t Is a faor of cooing to grips with a difficult
problem. Caneaûently, he avoid a i t as long ae poselble and
I t ie onl/ When tho ftituaticn hafl become dangerous and disaster
ahead that his "inner voice" or intuition eomaunleaten
with hid and t e l l s him what course he should follow. Moat

of his thinking le carried on subconsciously which probably
accounts for hit a b i l i t y to penetrate difficult problems and
tins hla moveiw Peychologicftl experiments in this field aa«m
to Indicate that on this lflmpjl 'tin indivlduai^la often able to
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solve Tery cooplax problems which ar* impoaaitle for
the l e v e l of cocacxoufiteBa. Wheribv^f n»'turn in fitudylng
Hitler's behavior patterns we fiiid the Spectre of possible
defeat and humiliation o.a one of h i stfonmlnAJitmotivations<
Monunenta.
KIE passion for constructing huge buildings t
bri4êa t ro^da, e t c , can only be int&rpretwi as 8-ttempts to
compensate for liia lack of confidence. Tho*« tf«
proofs of bia groBttneos which are designed to impreas
da wall as othars. Just as he rauat be the greatest man i n a l l
the world, SD ho has a tendency to build the great*&t and
biggast of eêiytliin^. Woat of the structuroo he haa ere c tad
he regards as Umporiry buildings * They a w , to his nay of
thinkingf cm a par with ordinary mortals. Th& permanent
buildirt^fl he plans to construct lator on. They will be much
larger end grander and trill be designed to lust at least a
thousand years. In other words, thefle are beflttiJlg monunants
to hlnsalf who pinna on ruling the German people for that
period of tima through hie nuw vlaw of l i f e *
I t In also Interesting to not« the frequency with
which he UBsa gigantic pillara. in a l l hia bulldinâ, Uost
of th» buildings are almost flxirrounded by thet and ha plafieB
then In every couceiTablft place» Since pillars of this aort
a n Al*oot unlverfl(B3^:*»HWift'&flM!lto be phallic symbols, we

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may regard the 31:* And: Ws*iiifciifigf ft» wreonatiousaUjiiaptfl to
compensate for hia own lapotanca, ..Hi* tu^fl pageants serve a

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Oratory. fey fi V;
No study of Hitler would t» feonplete without
ing his oratory talents, Hifl ejrtraonftj^ry g i f t for
large audlances has contributed, perhspa moro than any other
single factor, to hip AUcceaa and the partial realization of
tile ideal* In order to understand the power of h i s
we Bust be cognisant of ths fact that for hia the
ax» fundEunefttall/ fecinine i n character. To Hanfataengl tnd
other informants lie haa frequently, saidt "Die Masge i a t

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The people, i a an overwhelming majority,
*re flo feminine i a their nature ftud a t t i -
tud« that their ftctivitisa and thoughts
&re motivated leaa by sobar
than by feeling and aentluent
la other «orda, hip unconscious frajne of r*ferencdf whsa
addra suing a hiLgfl ftudienpe, ifl tandeuflftntfllly that of
to a woman+
In flplta of thia, h i e Ina«curitlea assert
fie naTor ifl tils f i r s t speaker on the prograa* He must
have a apsaker precede hin who varsas up the audience for him*
2ven tiien h* i s nerroufl ftjud Jittery when he fista up to flpo&k
Froqusntly he haa d i f f i c u l t y i n fiodiflg word a with whicn to
begin. He i a trying to gat the "Joel" of the audionce. If
i t "feela11 favorable, he fltflrte In a rath&r cnutloufl Banner.
Hia tone of voice ie quite normal and h* heolfl irith his

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hie voiftft begins to rifle aud hi& tempo increase** If th*
of tJia audience i s good* fci» voice be comas louder,y-;*

louder am) the tenpo faster And f*ater* By this tine
a l l objectivity hap disappeared and pasaiou ha a tfljeen complete
possession of him* The mouth utich eaa never utter a fragment
of profanity off the apeataf'e platform now pours forth a
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hatred. Hanfstadngl compar&s the development of a Hitleriah
speech with the development of A flagnerian thane which may
account for Hltlfliâ IOTO of Wagnerian nmaic and the Inflpiration
he deriirea fron i t -
This ateady 5tresoai of f i l t h continues to pour forth
u n t i l both ho and the audience are in a frenzy- When h* stops
h# i» on the v«f£» of sxhauation. His breathing ia heavy and
uncontrolled and he i& mfinîng wet wltii porflpiratloa. llanv
writers have coomentad on the eaxual componente in hiis apeaking
r
and sow htva dasaribed the climai as a veritable o
Heyst writest
hifl Bpeechee we hear tiie auppr*»ead
of pesalon and wooing which la
taken ftom tiw language of lovaj ha
utters a cry of hate and voluptuousness,
a epaaa of violence and cruelty. All
those tones and sounds are taken fron
the badc-Btroote of the instinct?;
they raniod us of dftxk Irapuleea
too
And Hitler hia&alf say
"Paasion ftlonS^Ji/iive to bit, mho

i ia cbofl^n by her, tha word* th^l,
beats of(^ tawr, «r« abê to opea tha
doors to thfi heart of a people»™
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Undoubtedly, he use* speaking AS a mean* of talking hii

into the fluperwian role and of living^frU the role
"Identification irith the Aggressor"* He carafully bullda up
impoBitig anealeS—J^wB, SolshevLfcs, c a p i t a l i s t s , democracies,
etc*, in order to demolish than without mercy (those are a l l
Inventions of the Jews to his *ay of thinking and consequently
In Attacking any one of them he la fundamentally attacking
the Jews)* Under these circumstances, he appsars to the n*iv*
And unaophiatieatad listener ae the Gre^t Bedeamer of Germany*
But thla Is only one side of the picture* On the

other side we hava the sexual attack which, In his case, I& of
a perrerse nature. I t flods «xpreaalon in his speaking but
due to the transformation of character ovarything appearfi in
the reverse* The steady stream of f i l t h he pour a on the h*ada
of hia "fenlnlne" audience is the reverse of hie iMBochietic
perversion which finds gratification tn having wojaan pour
t h e i r "filth" on bin* Evan1 the function of the physical organa
is x-Brorsed* Tfaa mouth which, under ordinary clrcuB^tancea,
is an organ of injection and i s aurrounded with lnhlbitiona
and prohibitions, now becoMBB the organ through which f i l t h
is ejected* Hitler 1 s epeailng has baen aptly described as
a ^verbal diarrhea"*
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Rauschnlng deacribejs i t afi an oral ;
enema. I t i s probably thla unconficioue sexual elaaent in h i s

which holda ouch a fascination, for many people^
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Hla
A word nay ba added in with the
of hi a speeches* Straafler 4UBS it concisely whan
he sayst
"Hitler responds to the vibrations of
the human heart with the delicacy of a
seisnogrfiph***enabling him* with a
certainty with which no conscious gift
could endow hi*, to act fie a loudspeaker
proclaiming the moat secret desires, the
l e a s t peruasalble instincts* the suffer-
ings, and personal revolts of a whole
nation-1*
TTe are now in a position to understand how this i s possible
for him. In regarding h i s audience na fundamentally feminine
in character, h i s appeal ia directed at a repressed part of
their personalities* In msny of the German people th&Te seems
to ba a strong feminine-masochistic tendency which i& usually
covered over by mora "virile" characteristics but which finds
partial gratification i n submiaslvs behavior, discipline,
sacrifice, etc* Nevertheless, i t does seen to disturb than
and they try to compensate for i t by going to thfl other
extrern* of courage* pug&aciouaness, determination, etc*
Gensans are unaware of this bidden part of their
i t i e a and would deny i t s existence vehemently i f such an
insinuation i s mAde* Hitlar, however, appeals to i t d i r e c t l y

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and he i s in an excellent po&ltiau to know what goes on in
that region becVuss In Jiin this aide of his 1 f& wae
not o n l j conscious but dominant thJoiigtitttt hjtD earner

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Furthermore, these tendencies mars f&pr gore intense In td*>
than in the average person and ho had 4 better opportunity
observing their operation* In addr*esln£ an audience in
this way ho need Oftlj d m l l on th« longlnga, ambitions,
and deal re 3 of his aarlier l i f e In ord&r to awaken the- a * hidden
iu h1.3 l i s t e n e r s . This he duea with Inordinate
In f l i s way he i s able to arouse the flame attitudes
and enotione in his lleten&rs that he himself now experience a
in CoruiflctloCL with t h i s type of adjustment, and i s able to
direct these into the same channels that he has found useful.
Tbus ho is able to Tin then to h i s n « Tie* of Ufa which
seta a premium on brutality, ruthlesanefls, dominance, detenn-
inition, etc*, end which frowns upon a l l the established
human qualities. The Jcey tbroughout w i l l be to strive to be
what you are not and to do your bast to exterminate that
which you are* the bohaTior of the German armies has b&*n
an outstanding manifestation of t h i s coatradictiflu* To the
paychologiat i t seras aB though the brutality expressed
towards the people of tbe occupied countries i s notlTated
not only by a deelrfl to prove to themeelêa that they are
what thay are not* but also by a vicarious masochistic g r a t i f -
ication which they derive fron an ideiitificntlon with their
Tidtlms. On the whole, one .could say fltAfiv^V?!*
troops what flfluschiing said of Hitleri n-m^.-, rr

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on brutality and ruthlessjyttfrf -4b* d#aol8.tiQn
of ft forced wad arUfici&TTitauiafcity, not
the ajnoralitf &f the gemiine bfut*i^ which
has after a l l aoane^lng of the j » « r of a
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4 Aa the tide of battle "ttmia against Hitler U> ray
be well to consider very briefer* tHa .possibilities of his
future behavior and the effect that each would have on
German people as wall ae on ourselves t
!• Hitler mar die of natural cauaea^ Thio i s
only a remote poeEibUity since, as far aa we know, he la in
fairly ga&$ health esc apt for his stomach ailment which i J ,
ID a l l probability, a psychoeooatic disturbance+ The effoct

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wieh aa svent would haTe on the Geraatt people would depend
on the nature of the i l l h e s e which brought About hia death.
If he would die from whooping cough, numpG, or some other
ridiculous disease, I t would be a material help la breaking
the oyth of hi a supernatural origina*

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Thia i s extremely unlikely In view of h i s great concern About
bis immortality* Nothing would break the myth more effectively
than to have the leader run away at the c r i t i c a l moment* Hitler
knows this and baa frequently condemned the falser for bis
flight to Holland a t the cloae of the l a s t war* Hitler might
want to escape ae he baa escaped from other unpleasant situa-
tions, but i t seems e.Lno&t certain that he would
himself.
8* Hitler mar $**. Thit Is a real
p o s s i b i l i t y , ffhen he ie convinced that he cannot win, he taay
lead h i s tr&ope Into battl* and eK&WB:ifiliairtiiflLjB».1tlie fearl«BE
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and fanatical lander. This would be mo At undesirable from
our point of Tier because his* death would serve afi an ex&npl*
to h i s followers to fight on *itil fapatleal, deatfa-d»fyln£
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to the b i t t e r end- This would be wfaat Hitler
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would went for ha haB predicted that:

shall not capitulate.,*DO, never»
We nay be deatroyed, but i f we are,
shall drag a world with us*,.fl
in
"Bat even i f we could not conquer them,
we should drug half the world into
destruction with ufl and leer* no on« to
triunph over Germany* There w i l l not
be another
At n certain point he could do nore toward a the
of thia goal by dying heroically than ha could by l i v i n g .
Furthermore, death of thi£ Idnd would do mor* to bind the
German people to toe Hitler legend and ineur* hie lmiwrtality
than any oth»r course he could pursue.
4, UltLar may ba aBaacaiqe.t*di Although Hitler i s
extremely wall protected Uior^ i s a poeBibilltjr that someone
may aeaaBOinsto hln* HitXer i s afraid of t h i s p o s s i b i l i t y
and hae expreafied the opinion that:

friandB wmld one day ptab bib
mortally in the taoki.-Aud i t would bs
Just before tha lafit and greatest victory,
at the *otfl#nt of supreme tension* Once
taoTfl ilagen would ploy Siegfried- One*
more Hermann the Liberator would ba murdered
by his own kinsaea* TKa e t t m a l deftiuy of
the fera&a nation auat b* f u l f i l l e d yet i
for th* l a s t time*"
This possibility too, would b» undeeirabl« fTbW--tttr point of

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view inasmuch a3 it would make a martjT 0*
the
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I t would be ovaa mora undesirable if the assassin

war* a Jew for thia would qonvinfce ,-pie German people of Hitler' a
i n f a l l i b i l i t y and strengthen the fanaticism of the German troop*
and people. Needleae to My, i t would be followed by the
complete extermination of all Jews in Germany and the occupied
countries *
5* Hitler may pa, lnflene. Hitler has many charac-
t e r i s t i c s which border on the schizophrenic. I t is possible
thet when faced with defeat bin psychological structure may
collapse and leave MM at the Percy of his unconscious forces.
The possibilities of fluch an outcome diminish as tie become*
older, but they should not be entirely excluded* This would
not be *ii unde&ircble eventuality from our point of view since
it would do nuch to undermine the Hitler legend in tha
of the German people*
6. Gannfifl-i".n-iij"-Y pipfat revolt and.
This eeonB unliiely in view of t i » unique position Hitler hold*
in the minds of the German people* Fton a l l the tvidftiw* i t '
would fluflB that Hitler alone is able to rouse the troops, aa
well a* the people, to greater dfforta and as the road becomes
nore difficult this should be an important factor. On* could
imagine, however, that *a d&feat approaches H i t l e r ' s behavior
nay become more end more neurotic and reach a point where i t
would be well for the military t ^ U ^ W ^ f , ^ I» ^ l B
however, the German people would probefrly *ifly*r know about i t *
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point of YI&W because i t would punctur'e* tfetjntftlLojr ths ldri

and Invincible leader.
The only other pofleibility in this connection would
be that the German nilitary should da aid*, in the face of defeat,
that i t night be wiser to dethrone Hitler and set up a puppet
government to sue for peace* This would probably cause groat
internal strife in G&rmany* What the ultimate autocue tight
be would depend largely on the manner in. which i t wefl handled
and vbat *&s done with Hitler* At the present tin* the possi-
bility B3CD1& extremely remote.

7, Hitler pg-V fall JJato our hsreiB* This i s the most
unlikely possibility of all* Knowing hlfl f&er of being placed
in the role of the venquistiod, we cut imagine tb#t he would do
hi& utinodt to avoid such ft fate* From our point of view i t
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would not be undosirAble-

6, Hitler mlETht commit goicidc Thie 1B the moot
plausible outcome* Not oaly hue lie frequently threatened to

coaunit suicld*, but from what we know of his psychology i t Is
the most likely possibility. I t i s probably true th&t ha has
an inordinate feax of death, but being an Kyeterlc he could
undoubtedly screw aimsalf up into the euper-mfin character and
perfom the deed. In a l l probability, howler, i t would not
be a staple auiclde* He has much too inioHof t t s dramatic for
that and a luce iKa&artalitj i s one of his dominant notices we ca»
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imagine Uiat he would stags th« iwet dramatic afld effective
death scene he could possibly thirfc, j?f. HefcnoTrsher? i
the people to him and if he cannot have the bond ill l i f e he-wUlV
certainly do his utuast to achieve i t In death• He might even
coma othsr fanatic.to do the final killing at hifl orders.
Hitler hao already envisaged a death of thip kind, for
has said to Rauschningi
, in the hour of supreme peril I mist

sacrifice myself for the people."
This would be extremely undeairablo fron our point of
because if i t is cleverly done i t would establish the Hitler
legejid flo firmly in the Binds of tile German people that i t night
take generations to erndicate it*
rih&t*7er else happens, »e may be reasonably 3ure that
as Germany suffers successive dafaatf Hitler will bocone sore
and more neurutic* &ch defeat will ahaJce his confidence s t i l l
further and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness
to himself* In consequence he will feel himself more and nor»
vulnerable to attack from hie associates and his rages will
increase in frequency- H& will probably try to compensate for
hia vulnerability on thifl aid* by continually stre&oii^ his
brutality and
Hi a public appearances will become leas and leoa for,
vs aa«a* be in unable to
JIB we h&vs to fane aa ccritical
r i t i c a l aauflienc** He
Ci.fi.tJiI.*:,- ^
will protftbly aeek aoUce in hiB Eagle's Keflt on
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for hie "inner voice" to guide bin* Hetnwhile, his

night nares will probably increase 4ii f**quency1&d
and drive hln elofler to a nervous collapse* I t iff not Jp
wholly impr&babla rthat la the end he night lock: hins&lf into
this symbolic msrob and defy the world to get hin#
Id any caoe, hi& nental condition wtH continue
to deteriorate* fte will fight as long a a he can with any
weapon or t&chniqua that can be conjured up to meet the
omergency. The coiu-fla he will follow will almost certainly
be the one which s&stna to htm to be the surest road to
immcrtalitj and at the flame time drag the world down in
precsdsd bjr beaa «ccsrpt*d and

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•BILUKGEti, Karl (peoud*)* "Hitl«r is tio focJ" » ITodarn ftfia books. 1939
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3LJLKJS, L*on»ivi:. Hitlar*s l a s t ysar of Powor, London A- Dakor'a
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: *..Adolf H i t l e r , Da*ffi£4DSK*in#r
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* " ! i d o l f Hitler* i short sketch of his l i f e *
, Robert A*: Thft S p i r i t flud S t m c t u r e of Fascism* ](#ir
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1 1 , 1930*
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October 10,
in Europe, lOTtlÂ* October 25, 1S30*
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Adjust IE, 1934*
! Abbs Dinnat -riv* s Hi a View* of Two D i c t a t o r s , U&:ltt,
liovombor 17, 1934,
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, Adolf t If* Victory awd Preod&rfij 3[ational
" i Hitter speaks*- 3 4 4 t l U - i e , April,
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1933, p . 117,
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LUHKcJi, Ottos H i t l e r hlntar Ke*tum£smau»rn. Berlin, Wittier, 1S33, Tl p .
H,, PhulJ Laur Combat..,lilt 14r, Paris* Fstf&rd, 193 9, 347 p .
, John UrowiK J i i t U r ' s F i r s t FOOH* Minâpolis, 1036, 113 p .
, Henryr "Chafs", Twit, Plon,, 11IS9.

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, Kred, Herbert; Li<?s as AUios; Hw Yert, Q^fprd University
1341, ^4 p.
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ktiLVILLiS, C F.T The Truth About tho jiaw Party* Louden , '.Vishnrt, 1931*
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*tlii\"iai, Adolf ( Mil; l i i t l a r im B*,yflrisch*n Inftntorio kagt
Aupparle Vflrlwji, 1^4, 105 p .
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1941. ^29 p # _-
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Urfnhr* folê 67:12* JaJi rg«gfig.(Austria)
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1st J:it) er ain Christ? tiunch«n* Zaichanrin£ Vas-
1S31, 47 p ,
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UarcJi 14, 1 S 2 3 .
UOrfLfi, tf*3:.f fen r e t r a &;' îifcl^r, lEundr^ of Goethe. l i 4 j
Uaroh 16j 1932,
tiJMlft, K-r f i l t e r * 134 145^-64, April SO,
V1L1JUJ3, O»G»: t e l l y of Ajolf [ i i t l o r . 1 5 6 | 3 9 2 , April 12,
J i S Z l , 0 * : i i i t l a r ],yth r ft foracaat* 1 3 6 J & 5 3 / * J Wayj 1933*
VILUlffl, O*G,i I I « i Child-mind. 137;fil4, •Jovptubsr 20, 1S5S.
fiL, £ , t 111 t i e r ' a n d t h e Fr$n*>i P r e s s - 1 3 S J £ 1 S - 7 , Fobru«iy
31, 1934*
KiJ, Ot<?.i I t i t l a r ' s li« and G o t t . ISStllV, Augu&tj 1954.
Can J l i t l e r Bft T r u s t s t 140x645, Jmi* 5 , 1C3&
VllXAltD, 0.0** I s i u e s and Kan, 143:395, O o t o t e r a, 1956*
H i t l e r goes t o i l o m , 14SJ53O* :it& 7t 1S50»
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hnwri Uagdebur^ ?9 p*
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Loots At Hitler. 9Ga326-7
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To tfto Fuh-ror, r l j t l * : Is T e r r i f i c * 19s42, June 22,
B:05i' Fuhror, Impersonator Lirydon, 2 0 : S i - 2 , Jul,- L(iM 1942
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1936,
II •• II
?, 4i4» Alois ETifcler 0pe:i5' T*a Soon in
Berlin,
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STAATSZJrru.iG und fJerold*: Vart Dug m r t i c l e s * A t i r i l , 193 9:
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i;i:jKTi;ril*Tii C;EtJJrUi£YJ iVlLSOW^ Sir Ar.ioldi October, 1936, p , 503-512,
HQbtTJI Ai«drtICA;J nfiÛS: ilarr i i i t l o r c a ^ s to iiat* 1^32, 334, v o l * 104-9
i S H ^ , Frederick* Tîa t s the Ssisiq/. ô:^ton» L i t t l s , 1342, 564 p .
iS, '-'f^ltttrt Korjint das Driiâ Reich7 B e r l i n , Rowohlfc, 1930*
aiij itiuJolf: II i t l o r , Am«t4nlaiDt û#rWio^ 1935, 3C4 p,
i d , Corl A*G#i Dor Krisg o^.no 'Jaffati. V/ird i i i t l e r
j 1930, 69 Ji»
OTTffALTf Ernnti DeutseKlnnd Enwmshe I , Hess ,\ Co,
i t h e Thrao D i o t * t o r f l , , » U i t l * r » London, A l l o i ^ 15>4O»
, ri*L*t l i i t l ^ r , C-srTnafl Ifypnotiafc, 16fi, v o l . 2&6,

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. 10, 1D33 * Dcr Pr&aess dor [ J r i g i t t * rUtlo
* £9, 133 9# A ^ i ^ l a about t h a I r o n Groas*
23, 1940* Vam "f
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Lj Srii^tt Die Seudmif; fciolf i=itler3» VeNni: fur Volkskiinst, 153
ii, fiillmrd, SricJi: Man Jahr Volksk^-iJEl*r. (Axi P Ueutsflhlandi* "feÂ
Haft i l / 3 * 1^34, 31 &.)
OT, ileurifio: LnJU ]Qm£n# da fiitlar, P a r i s j 1933*
*PiiILLIFS, ilonry A l b e r t : (iftrmrtny Todjuy am? Tomorrow, Now Ynrttj Do del.
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sTardi I kôw Thass LJiotattars* London, ][arrap#,
John tho Haai f r o n t , WDW; York,
194C, 307 p .
, Annat Ho Rofcrett* lievr TorJf, Bobhs L o r r i l l , f 309

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i the Voice of f)«&trndtiofl Sains as init
Hitlar"t
! The Rovolution of NihillstMi llavi York,
£3£f 300
tiis W^r» AJHKJS icmn Council OH
A f f a i r s , lfl40, l i p *
: Tfia Cci^servative Havoluti on, ]hrovj
1941, 250 p«
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: Tha ft#n,st form t h o Abys3» Lft^do;i, ôinenami, 1041,
170 p .
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DIGiffi'fi SriiTAK, J - L . i i l i t l o r ^ s itaokntc^rs* £
Aus Mol^' Mitlers liolmat. 1B33, 128 p ,
Thomta (psaurU) The Spoil oT Europe;
nElÔ>iAUAlJiK* jours ghez H i t l e r * ( l n , U 3 r i x ) * P a f i s , 43 A»4.
S4-116.5. Q4-0C*
, Hsrnard ralboti Prolado t o u i t l * r t Loitdo n, JtCtp*), 10J3,
•#, ? Um deu I'uhrer* (Volkiaohe Soihe im
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, Curt i Thfl Self-Ustriyod. Putnam" s , tiov.- York, 194S,

L •
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p.
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0
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n, Ifnnsi
, F* Sher,
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ItOfiiii, ] join rich: HiUera F r i ^ d ^ n s p o l U i t . . Berlin, n . 1936,
p.
Sclith Lclser)i ; of J u s t i c e , !Jev:
34G p
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July 20, 1S4O,
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J3 v o l , 3 1 4 A , lflJZ.
, I h i S l l t l o r ' a Mo |fe» e n d t h e Gaah, 156
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1933.
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361 p#
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SCHOLASTIC; Ef i t l n r rods*. .
^ Vollt&t*io}i VOLI ! : i t l a r , *n£nn«1i#n*Elhar. 1933, 307 p*
^ Fred rrfiKlclini Iho New Germany:*»»H*wr Yoii; *
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1933, Z1Z p-
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153^, 9G p-
, Kurti Adolf [ l i t i e r , London, H^rrap, 1035* 00 p,
*SCilUKA*iti, Fredarick L«-.ls; l i i t l s r and tho ilazi Ulotatorship, Lesuion,
, Leopold": World in T n n e s , ][&?/ YorL:, 1942, 445 p*
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Fait
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i
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SGjf£2Rj J . F . : . . H i t l e r a t son troislomft empire* P a r i s , L' Eglantine, 1933,
&KJ:0F3R, J:orbsrt: t i t dmr Fuhrrcr uRtsTurogsb JSDAP, lflS9f 22[J p*
Toni: A Pith tar' for roans* 'law York^Vanr/ianl, I939»
WilliflmL»i Barlim Diar^, EJew Yorlf, Knopf* 1&41, 4iO& p ,
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Andre: K«n of 3uro p 9 # T!ew XovVt tlgd^m Aê, 1911, 330 p .
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SKj Louis: Tiltl^rism**!);; Nordicus (psoud*) V.tfvt York, JJnh
Hattlss of * bystandar. H«w York, Livarigtit,

£60 p .
Ernst, Hudigar, Prinji Uabwo^n liitl&r
. . ,1 04!i*
Adolf '-i
STATISTt t h a : Elitl«r r s Day. London, 1334, 123 vol
London,
1934, lf?9 p.
, JahannasE Ititl^t a l s LYanJcaretain* Ldndonj 193 3, IBS p .
tf ZimWGt Adolf Efitlflv ftl5 Sohulor in fjte-r..April 17, 10
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Sdi, Cttor Aufû des doutachsn S o c i a l i s m s *
Grunow,
aa3 1* p.
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•TAX, d i # j HOME, H.i Siogfteall** I I . (A* ! i i t l a r ( K l . J ,
, Edrwndt Tho S t r a ' ^ g y of Terror< Boston,
£77 p , ( 1942 rflviiad edition)
, Willimn: Know Tny SnsiryV Lend on f NicKolson, 1039 j 313
h'i^liI, E,iV*L.r Harr fiiti*!- arel His fx>licy, Llftroh, I M S , Eng
tiovioiv, v< 5G. p . 3&2# 37S,
TBSSON, F i ' d*i Votoi Jidolf ! I i t l * r ^ P a r i s -
L juatl-i & Kiatake Wiart I y&eksd iii,tl#r,
- 7 . July,
I I Paid I l i t l a r . How York, FArrar, 1941, 2B1
* Doroidtyi' 1 S*w H i t l a r , Haw Tort,
Lat's 3& hriwidsl 2?J£1^# Mardi a*
" C r i t i c HlbJsr, 30, Auîfit Zt 1<*37 (p )
Hitler Uoinss IICNIIQ. 311 13-22, i^rch £l ( 1930.
* * h i t l e r 1 & fhr?&t, 32 :5^ . Novs-nber 14, 193C*
* the Yflar* 35(11-14* January 2i

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* " i Hitler vfl» h i t l ^ r j 33:20, April 10, 1939.
• " * Ag^randiser'a Anniversary, 33:23/4, Key 1 J 1939*
" J Two Uio^nD3Q£t 33:^2, Mqy S, 1931 ••
Ir
Minutes; H i t l e r ' s Harrow 3^c*po. 3 4 : £ l / j , iJovflmber £0,
F r o n ^
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" J Inside n i t l * r , 39J43, Juns 22, L942.
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300 p*
, Kftrlr EJitlar und RonJ 1E-51 *
iOf, L e o m J i i t l e r Wants, [Jm y u r k , John Baj G o , , 1933, 31 p .
fjoiv Lon;-, C*n i l i t U r (Araorican i,:carc(iry v , $1.
Ja.os: Itifcloi- and t h e ]5ftipLre* London, 1937, 40
do Hitlar, Revista
jiuoy 1S> p.
Via daw idolf ijitler» Jbin«o 4, p* 536-44, Paris,
Unto O&ednr. IJaw York, p u t n a ^ s , l93e | 503 p.
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•W41LACH, Sidney; H i t l e r , yem\eo t o iT Emerson Books,
U , L, i £0, J* , 1924.
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" i n u s i o n o n uber iJitlor* 960-*4 (Berstprff j K.L t ^
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i^Dc5LF Frisdriohr Dor GendArm von rE UdtHrgierwri* iiorlin^ Diota, 1032.
X H i t l w Did not ^ftnt the SRclish Speaking Countries t o
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;3fti4i . London^
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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

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PPOX* Hemy A* IhiWay, Banm^ Psychological

Hitler - As ttja German peoplfl know 19

Hitler - AB hfl knowfi himself 90

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Hitlar'B Probable Behavior In tto Future MS

Appendix - Complete Bibliography

This study i* not propagandistic In any genee of tha

to h l u o l f , (2) no ho has bean pictured to th* G*rmaa p«opl»,

(5) how ha.lv known to hie aasociAtas. Thnta 0action* contain

the basic Material for the pfjohologloal analysis In flection* If

and V in * J.eh an &tt*»pt i s ud« to understand a±tler as a parson

and the BiotlTatlonD.undarlyl1^ h±B. .actloo** _._.__

lng to cooperate to the beet of their abilities • Ibe

to proceed with tba study filling in th* laetua* with

gained f n » d i a l o a l experienoe in daallng with lndiTlduals of

•ethod at tin prttsent tin*. Thrtroehout th# study *• t t n tried

to ba u obj w U w fc* possible in eroluating hii atrmfftba u

well tie hli

The Eitlar 3ouw»-Boolfrt * companion m>lu»B In ihicb the original

in Heiu K*apf and Xf H*w 0rt«r, r»flpflcUTBlj,

It th*t ths fltuly my be helpful in gaining

dwper intg i d o l ^ J i U e r and the GMMJI people and

that It •*? eer*w *B * gold* for <rar propageM* acU^itio* *•

m i l at our future doellnge with tiam*

HULBt - Ag iff HM3BLT 10 SS

In 1956, Hitler Bed* use of an extraordinary figure of spaaoh

In describing, hi? DID conduct* He uatdt

Eton at that tlw* i t struck tbn world aa

significance and i^pllcatloan th«y wotiLl

far (preater conceit tlian th»$ .arqo*ad by to

tlh.* RhlofliUBd* P&r tha COUTH of this

this Bfto BiaoefO In hla uadertakiagn or i s he a fraud?*

Certainly #Ten a fragwdtary knowledgfi of hin paflt l i f e wurrantli

nuch a queatloA, particularly aln«* our co^rvspoDdentB he»a

preaantsd us with »»ny conflictla* Tie**, At tiwaj i t oeesed

iO»oflt inconoeiVablfl that a JMH could be aincere and do what

"I cannot bs DiBtakan* Itmt I do and oay

Thi» attituda 1» not conf in#d to hi«HLf a,P a

also balieTsft hiainlf to be ttw g»s.t«at war lord as,

example, *hen he BBJB to

*Icb epiela nicht ftxleg. Icb

"For tta* l i d t tw&tj^f^ur houra i n « tb«

t too, hfi ballavofl biuBaU to be the greatest of all Geratua

•/ ardiiteote atid -apanda .a great deal of his tiae In akatcfaitu ae«

ge and plfinniAg ULO reMOdallog of eatirv titiafl. In spite

a l l mat tars of art. A f«w yanrs ago ha appointed *

ha balisrva hinaelf to be an uuqueBtloned authority• .

E* also pridan hla«*ir on his bardnaes and

"I u ona pf th« hArdast H U OonoDy OAB DJ4

t . with the g r * a t « t authority of any _

Thia bailed la his own pow&r actually border* oa a f M!LQ£ of

Another diplomat roporta a similar

concerning Hitler'B f l m belief in his o n greatneao, He n u t

"Hot only han the Fuehrer error had his

I t la alig indicative tliat Hitler, SODB tin* befora the war,

I t Is true that from tbe oiitaid* I t looks as though -

gives hie the fsaling of conviction In hifl infallibility-

Hitler twk r#gular isaaoDB in ipaaking and la nasa psychology

«Dd ^oFtunv-UUer* Be was an txtrtnftly d a r w Individual tho

I fir«t1tn*T Adolph fliUar in Munich, in

forautta abd propbeoWd in thoea days I

•ethod at tin prttsent tin. Thrtroehout th# study • t t n tried

in Heiu Kapf and Xf Hw 0rt«r, r»flpflcUTBlj,

that It •? eerw B gold* for <rar propageM* acU^itio* *•

with the precision and security of &- aleep-walker

have coma to Hitler through hie BUQC0B4P Thla is

HO at Btrtlin£ of thtts i s the following i \-

And to Rauiichning ba ones referrod to th Jewish Chriet-«*efld