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Analysis of The Personality of Adolph Hitler
Analysis of The Personality of Adolph Hitler
Analysis of The Personality of Adolph Hitler
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FOREWORD
Aim
present an
The aiid of this memorandum is (1) to
with an
analysis of Adolf Hitlera personality
hypothetical formulation of the manner of its
to make a
development; (2) on the basis of this,
confronted
few predictions as to his conduct when
mounting successes of the Allies; and (3)
by the
Germany's surrender.
personThe proper interpretation of Hitler's
und9rstanding_the
ality is important as a step in
E3Icholo2L-2l'llJ.I2lSi^
for a
typical Nazi exhibits a strain that has,
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long time, been prevalent among Germans
of the German
step 1ft tmderstanding the psychology
the eleva^
people. Hitler's uaprs code nted appeal,
deni-god, can
tlon of this man to the status of a
tl.>iit he and his
be explained only on the hypothesis
the ne^da, longings,
ideology have almost exactly met
Germans.
and sentiments of the majority of
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in the attempt to
MEIN KAMI^.has prpved reieardlng
personality.
discover the underlying forces of his
Sales, has also
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HITLER THE
A paper published by W.H.D. Vernon,
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iritten under my
Psychol., 1942, 37, 295-308), was
of the ideas
general auper^/ision and contains most
and myself on this topic
of professor G, W. Allport
all th^
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known facts.
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containing
A.
^lef Analyala
of Hltlera Personality.
B.
C.
D.
Sixggeatlons for
;
;the i?reatiiaent
of the.
G8rnn People.
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A.
or
There 1 little disagreement among professional,
ThJ-s la
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achieved by
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and Inof an
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normal (within
(1)
Dgmi^anc_e^g_Su^il^
a,
The cM.i9f
Counteractive Aggres-
pliance. Love;
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(1)
contempt of
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superior (counteraction out of wounded pride), encouraged by moments of extreme self- confidence in
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and
*;he
c:)ranonly
we
.lir^tified in
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portion
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brute strength ;
(a)
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domihation.
hated enemy.
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fear of consc5.ence;
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As
dependent
a child he was frail and sickli, e motionall y
on his mother,
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engaged in athletics,
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with it woman,
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was Hitler's
insults, we have many reasons to believe,
his wife
father, a coarse boastful man who ruled
and his
(twenty- three years younger than himself )
injustice.
children with tyrannical severity and
2,
(a)
as a boy
advanced, supported by much evidence, that
blinded)
Hitler was severely shocked (as it were,
his parents,
by witnessing sexual intercourse between
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swear revenge,
and his reaction to this trauma was to
the lost glory
to dream of himself as reestablishing
of
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The boy's relative weakness made this
of revenge
impossible, apd so the drive and passion
Mm undflr tension.
was regressed and locked up within
stimulus
Only much later when a somewhat similar
his
the subjugation and humiliation of
occurred
father*
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the age
no ei^rgetic ambitious d rive of his own from
of 13 years (when
his,
father,
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the conqueror
age of 29 years (when a new enemy,
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had to be stubbornly repressed ever since he
revenge
his career of ruthless dominance and
on
Every
which
Hitler wants
notfaittg so
much
of
without guilt feelings; but despite his boasts
not been
having transcended Good and Evil this had
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a reaction
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insanity #,
tfx!eed
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or
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his $nemies )
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che Third
many claim.
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His creativity
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ttaaochiaitt t^
aexual
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analysis
metaphora
usea In
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Kampf ,
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paaaive
feminine component
(hypertrophy of the
hia nake-up)^
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The aeccnd
tendency
which may be expected in one who haa aasiduoualy repreased^ out of swollen pride, the aubmiaaive reactions
(complianoie;^ co-operation, payment of debts, expression
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other patterns
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it alternates with
'a nd
subnl ssion*
There is no space
thit*
(i)
point
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the
sexuals;
(v)
by several informants, are very suggestive of homosexual panic; (vi) some of Hitler's interpretations
of human nature, such as when he says that the people
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(in his- own mind) for many illegal, acts; and (iv)
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A simplification
that;
Anti-Semi tismt
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(a)
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Thus
Hitler instinctively retreated from too close association with the workmen of Vienna
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government by the
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(e)
The materialism of
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him.
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(b)
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(d)
Hitler offered
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(g)
business, materialism^
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a.
wave of pessiOn.-
His id (Inatlnctual
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1.
Hysteria
He experiences
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diminish the paina and perils of an isolated egocentrism; and (iii). he has beeA aupi'emely successful
superiority.
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become reel,
insanity is sanity .
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(b)
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(c)
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of concern to them*
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1.
(h)
1,
(i)
2.
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(a)
support
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(b)
of>.
the masses*
appeal to youth*
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(c)
provide one.
2.
(d)
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and
man ha a feared this eventuality for many years
Germans are
This is possible
trusted follower:
Hagen, paegar
by
by Judas.
with
for a while and create a legend in conformity
arrange to have
th ancient pattern. If Hitler could
9wne paranoid llk9. himself ^ kill him, then He
a
Jew,
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which would
unlike ly, that he will choose this course,
viw, first
be very undesirable from bur point of
to all
because his death would serve as an example
death-defying
his followers to fight with fanatical
it would
energy to the bitter end, and second, because
who led
insure ^tier's immortality - the Siegfried
Slav.
the Aryan hosts against Bolshevism and the
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failure
with the mounting load of frustration and
forces of the
he may yield his will to the turbulent
unconscious.
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were hidden
standpoint, because, even if the fact
deteriorate
from the people, morale would rapidly
the hero would
as rumors spread, and the legend of
Hitler became
be severely damaged by the outcome. If
hands of
insane, he should eventually fall into the
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liaay
commit suicide .
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Hitler may die of natu ral causes
country...
Hitler may aeek refuge in a neutral
of his associates might
This is not likely, but one
Switzerland in a plane and
drug him end take him to
should stay there to write
theti persuade him the t he
Since
the German folk.
his long-plfenned Bible for
people would seriously
the Hero's desertion of his
be more
damage the legend, this outcome would
desirable than some- of the other possibilities.
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g.
likely,
United Hatiohs .^ This is perhaps the least
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been swayed
in asking these predictions we have
chief concern
most by the supposition thet Hitler's
consequently
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according to
he will endeavor to plan his own end
pattern.
the most heroic/ tragic and dramatic
(dramatic
Optipns #5 (insanity to some extent) and #3
strike us as
suicide), Qt #4 (death at the front),
roost
probable today.
C.
Ir
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(^.erm any,
one
An into custody by th e Ttnited j?a.ti6ns.- Any
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if Hjtlor is
a trial followed
by exile
by execution, by life imprisonment or
of Hitler's
will provide a trafgio ending for the drama
element
sensational career; and thus contribute the
to the resu rrection and perpetuation
'that is noeess'ary
Allies do that
legend?
will spoil the tragedy and thus kill the
following plen is
As an answer to this question, the
suggested..
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(a)
1.
(h)
1.
and house
(such as St. Elisabeth's, Washington, D. C.)
for his
a comfortable dwelling specially built
him in
occupancy*
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troatedf
1,
Appoint
(c)
committee of psychiatriata
faculties
and paychologiata to examine him and test his
at r^gwler intervals f
the world,
and tirades end condewhationi? pf everyone in
how
If
the
or
and the people will get bored with Hitler in a year
so.
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the world."
crack-brained fanatics who try to dominate
powerful deterrent to
As such it could serve as a
domination.
others with fantasies of world
Hitler's personal1. (f ) A thorough study of
importance to psychiatry
ity would be of considerable
documented book
and the publication of a carefully
act as a deterrent
on the subject would not only
future would-be Hitlers,
(publi3ho4 in popular form) to
contribution to science.
"but would ^e a significant
T^^f>^T. Wow and the .Cosaation of HdstJlitJes.
2.
accelercte Hitler8
The aim should be either (i) to
deterioration, to drive him insane; or (ii)
mental
legend by ending
hi
nervous brerkdown,
able for accelerating Hitler'?
here. None could be
but they will not be oonsidored
repeated military setbacks.
30 certsiniy effective as
measures which
Shall limit ourselves to a few
from arranging
might serve (2. (a)) ijo detar Hitlep
himself, and (2. (b))
a hero's or a martyr's death for
of his legend
to make him believe thft the immortality
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will not suffer if ho falls into the
United Nations.
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their
and America) to l^ave them treacherously to
be a sly
fate by getting himself killed. This will
trick of his to insure his own prestige and future
fame.
cares
He does not care for the Gorman people; he
to
captain who quits his ship, leaving his crew
drown.
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front
ludicrously forward to hie death on the Russian
Germans he
a guilty conscience over the noble
(out of
also
and
cartoons of his arranging to have himself shot,
this as
others of his committing suicide. Interpret
people,
the easy way out, a cowardly betrayal of his
."jf^
of
the act of a bad conscience, the qulntcsaenco
vanity.
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etcetera.
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pamphlets
If hundreds of these leaflets,
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use of these
By the repeated and not too obvious
by a conflict
two messagea Hitler wduld be faced
might be inbetween (D a self-annihilation which
a peaceful
terpreted as a cowardly betrayal, and (2)
the Allies
and so alloir himself to be taken by
ther^ was to be
Only later tould he discover that
is
no .Saint Helena for him. This trick of ows
the resurrecjustified by the necessity of pi?eventing
to rouse
tion of the memory of Hitler aa a superman
revolutionaries.
future generations of criminals aid
p.
I.
anpi pestions
Tftening
the>>^kdo#t^
of Geyffianyta Faith in
cdiiild
be their man.
the conduct
Having taken the entire responsibility for
and so
of affairs, he has become tl^eir conscienc e
The^jrido
German
system and security- system of each individual
is thus based on Hitler^s genius and success.
The
of
bulk of the people will not easily be persuaded
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his omniscience
long as possible to the illiision of
Vvhen it
because without this they have nothing.
catasf.v. ^t^iftnchantment wil l be sudden and
comes,
physical
The Allies can rely on the march of
disenchantment
events to bring about the eventual
events will march
of th German people; but since
disencbantfaster aiid the W8^ viU end sooner if this
be hastened by other means, the Allies should
jnsnt
cm
sentiments
not overloo)5 the power of wopds to change
may prove
and attitudes. The foiLlowing suggestions
of sow value
1.
(a)
leaflets
effective wethod would be th^t of prlntit^^
containing the r^ames^ ran^ and regiments of German
hardly succeed in
p'reventJlig an^^ious
parents from
news
picking up these leaflets to obtain the latest
of their sons at the front.
Communications of this
it
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to the V<orld Army In Sicily the following were
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at the prospect of going to America, the
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P^ "!> yo^ s^^ii belldve
iPasOiSBif
'*
wfaoao
sanity bsa
0in l6ad'
i:
;,
(M
*
6ettiieny*a Oho fomoini nff Ally. Japan^
Mzi'to^im should bo
'
Japan in
by Guilt
agrinat the
the Q^rmaii people to viotory
woridt'V
fhe
xn ironical
or satirical manner*
For example J
the Japanese,
Tho Ha^ia and their blood^brothcrsj
willingneas to die for
have boibh demonstrated their
thro^
summer one million of them have
Satan
airay
-*-'tiiia
tbQlr
uvea
fiivilization,"
in a
ftjitile
attempt to destroy
the Conscience
league of Germany and Japan against
of the World?"
^f
li.
^i^
that?
Gcnrians
Japanese against
VrtiiS
la responsible,"
.\.
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- 44 *
pUenlng
(4}
JJieSdages to
propa^indd can
l>
bjr
students at the
University of Wml^h*
84
gesAft f^^oB
IS*
(al
HHiX
&t Wa j* 6rltfeinai$
Pis^ciiel^glcally i% la important
Oft
the Alliea
giifigtttera
dh<rt*id itisiaU
'
#b^d
severe
"ife
tM
peint
m
(A
be Justified.)
first*
be made
goverh^ent has been established tha.tenns can
lenient. Thus in the futuro the dictators will
more.
liation of.
be recalled In coiinectloh tith the humi
unconditional suirrehder ;
terms*
govemwettt will get the credit of securing milder
2* (b) A World Court, at least one member
immediately
of which la a SWISS and one a Swede | should
fto
mn
-.
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'
45 -
.v;:c.vV''*i.''*
coTintry
ThB Allies 9houia b9 prepared to Invade any
^tet haj?bor>
iwor Id
2> (V)
shpuid
.b
must not
'
criminal,
h0-
allowed to drag
It
months, as this
impression of
wouia" give the (SermShs convincing
jnoaral w^atoess and incompetence ^
r^generatien*
oui*
explaining
reiaahle book should' be published in aerman
brotherhood
the naturd of international law (thi
by the
of nations). and exposing the crlmQS committed
fas^sistt in A.B.O* language,
:
T^-eaty*
tho^
OOAupiOd IfAa^lled- forces I that aiwwitanaously
civilians in
will be upl-lsings of slava labor and of
blood will be
C^^cupied territories; that raUch GeraaA
agilled* ^This is as it should be
a fitting Nemesis*
Germans,
their presence more acceptable It thi
m.:
,-'-
T* "^
-^
V-.*!v^^*fv*
"*
$tV^
48 -
^i*i<rte0i
%Q Obeying
ther*
wiU
\iili hd
m^mg
y^&n^spifee^d*
aoeial aystett
paitt
aM
to
co6Wl
slol;<l^*
fefa6vicrtp*
Apathy
ietpfajfatlett
itill
fehor will
^pmnf
wait tfi
aa a
auffet
ojptiftcati<m in ^H.^ta*
indiyldualisiH *
^6iid
f<i*
6 ftalda J^bla
eixlta of ^ixit^ma
the
.'
'
f ha soil ^ll
'
i^ch
laid for
ft
^ewmm, m^ w^V
im
%<j
cjerawayi
mil
tftaia^
Alliaa dll
affteiaht
dBB^litai!i|.t
guaji^aafeaea
agaihat
tala^aa
<
ofraw niatenala.
aats?63r.*
!tii*
- 47 -
m-.'-
m^i
thy
gmem
<5stla4 ta
'6r
the
eaithj|
(3)
thsa
la np human I6i Q tiL^^hdrity higheJ?
*i>f
tlJf^lJ
feh
tje
]jfi
ei*
ar deaUiit ?lth i
Jr6
aad
&&ai|.ea
Mght
"fiyy
l*o^6iiiaa.
* all
?^
staff oring
sf
o(iateiB|t
mti&n
pArahelcl tredti
pereoutt6s;
aad
gooi
Mtist
tiestiaa th# (SoK^siaa '^$?hftXe$taUs' *s
realise thttt
f^m
there
*Ji<i^
sii&pt4tu9eag
troatrtent
^^djtibly.ths fll-at .foui* stefs ta thd
<aa b
of; a aiiiflQ, ^ai6fl0id DorstShaXltr
'
6&hir4i'aioh
e>^
Qwrasuay.
adapted te the
jt attesiftiaa tht va
piyahi^
6t. foi^g^t thftt tha 0i4i I their
$tU\
,
Pi rat Step ^-
not t^
siQ^0as
physician mist
tfae petlent .
(i)
caji
'The
iffuat
twtod'
- 48 -
/'..
(conteietisj;?'
il|(|pt,
fiJP
6r/^lfed|^
i>3g-
'
|il3SlM*^ "^^
(ti)
'
.
i^^ak
adifiitj
segiindnt0 that
m%tm%%t with
fhes^
l?tt
sm
a Bkiftefy t>t
(SettHfthS
<b)
'
oi*
led te expect***
ahoiad b
dsgehepttes (deafir6tl6'so-ldleis)
(litUSSiSft
tJteited
eoa^lldd ta
aeet^i are
^oBffiAhddd
oeT
b&rbarlfeft^
T?he
mf-^
efficiency*
-Of
feapecta*
^Phla
hunger
ahotil<I
be appeaaed aa aoon
the worXd***
fftgethei* we can
It, is aa if he thought:
'
aon."*
face
rjT5.^l^5:^vr5.-:rprf-.>--.?)!r^"'t':*>'<"'-'-
.'
- 49 -
Klfe^'
(11)
of
aid, It^ inuslO, tetlstaric culttire and rafinuments
ttfuty thduld bo appJ^QClatei and ga?ai$od4
oeciii>*at Ion
of
'
Th<J
aimy
to
cltu;^Q of Old GeiiBatty ahd ooaij^ote Indlfforenco
tif-oopS
should he instructed
the
and- QOached by lecttires aftd gttde*bbdks covei?lng
'
tfoa.
TWj
teach
thfl
provide edu^atioh
tittej
aeiHre a
fol?
ots
double purpose*
It will
Also the
w^r*-
- 50 -
'"
3 (0)
-.
.;
>s
being
ally replaaed
hia
fey piplda
<itm raaobanisJiia
i baing able to
r%m
abave
aoijie
ift
over hla
jparaea
tfi'a9)8sl-0ua
pi'opei?
aalf*
Ijui?in$ the
of theae
(ii)
ol*
(Jerttart
6ormany *
5*he
whieh
oai?
to
(Thojoaa Mann,
^aicled
poaalbly
W siiggeationa
tt^
psyahlatsi'ista/
^*
-^^^-rr^^r-^^
- 51 -
'
truil*
In
tiiBOi
tftjs
ilaja;,
la^deratjaad^ tfaat
i*awifetli4^
and
&*i&ti^l4 i
^ apiade plume
l^iSr
O^iifjaa
^K^ *oi^l4
\ia&fi^j?y rlfetJiDts
people 8i&old be
m^HM
^^m
6f tastittetm^l
Tb AlXioa sbimld b^
aladeods*
5^
(a)
feil*eea*
admit
l>Q
outaldd
fh* group
hfii
gi?oupst.
#atai?^
ho
catt
b^ perattadod t
crOopoJ^fetd
joiaa ahould
a goal#
W^^^^^^^^Wi^S^^W^
- 52 -
(il)
Qermany .^ If Germany is to
anjist
As said above,
a Fuehrer, an Absolute, a
national ideal.
It can
nations.
a police.
attract the
A supranational symbol would. eventually
deference that is now focussed upon Hitler. Lacking
such
a
as
At the proper time Germany should be insocieted
nations
an equal in whatever le6gue or federation of
been established,
has->
prom here on
,t he
therapy of
single paranoid
enemies.
of us to try it.
'^^^^^^i^'^^/ry'^f^'^y- :-
>
--^A;-
'^
- 53 -
;w?ul^
^Ji
until
to eloae oil schools a nd universities,
been
^Oti*faao$8t teachers and fedultles hsd
dealing
'Phfl f^reatest problem will he In
X^deiim3.H4
.end hardened
wltli a whol gi^merdtion of brutalized
yOUSg Ni*
tve en American
io^^tbaXl, Isei'OSse end baseball be
introduce ideas
an^. English regiments would servo to
Germany
the.
most effective
With*
world federation.
agenor. wili ^^ some form of
im tMa ^^
Allied Vl6tOirr
ltt]>ort&i3t oeiJdeilU0n<ses
m'.\;
iU
have no permanently
'
^
:
m^^^m^^'^-^^WW^^'
^:^'f^'^r;-^yi^rr^^i^-{i,^^^^^
^^^>-..
sm^tm
HltXey the
mn
-^
tp^
^t
w*
W-
H*;
.^essftSQ
'
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,_^
.*v^-^-'^^'''A^:'^^T??^*^"^Vj?<^F25^-*>
;-
itliie^
-'.
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<
'^:-
.J .55
tlsaa the
lauat
begin
"by ftaking
who
Btere
.t!p
of Spital,
.the
village
Oeorg Hiedler^
bojce the
1857 in
Aloif
Only
)2
then^ when Oeorg Hledle^ waa (if atill alive
As Heiden aays,
ever made
of.
1 January S, 1877
^=?V
^. Ik.
V^^:^-':^
;
flit
jt^m^opa*
flirt.
fiiS?f
im^m
raaay.
wa apt
tK
1si>
W^
pother '
suggest; thot
lif^ibpnn
Ocorg HledUl
7b ea^^atorti oo both
^6eat
t'^'fl* ^^
Al^ii
t Tl?t
Si-ti9i*#
ft
^^
dltriet
inlrt*ed
oet*'|.but4a Pf hie
yo0r9 h4#
Sdfiioi?!
rlret
di^
i<l
mfej
poXjj3lit
ft
1883*
weeUii loteaf*
Klcta
AlSha
"J*,
(5^
he marrifd
dtfttaat otisln*
to
In ft|>^0j?taoe Heidea has ^coinpered Alois
iilndenbm'g. (i),
girl to
j,
^:^''L
v^
-\
- 57 -
retiirn aft# ta
in heir acwiai
in-her
0iirl]f
eicih:>esilYO
S8 dodtei*
tiitti|i)#.
tbviUn t$
e(atly pXitdd
hX^
gyy
(1)
describes he j*
o^l
Xdg
fl
(* <Jtni
yiiii^i
hair
^yei,
itfilfl$f|
Modest, kindly
wOin&n*.
Addlf
his own
years *^
Ji&thes
l$0tg
fts
fftl*
ea can be
fhia i^
n^etuXd sett
0S
fi
large factor in
the eYideaot
80di8ti
In retiirn^
himself admitg
mother, and'
prostratad
wtuifl
wltsli
a.
-.5$
e0waia
ft^<l
8i(",m
\?l5lk^
6<?ia3?al
Hta
^Uef
tb^
hiai;
twojs
thttt
la
idtjicfttiOfii
ttlU
free -*
tfae penuto^s,
end
Wd know little
mi -* that he e^rly
pt
iiwih eo irero
owtaaialiat
About M&i^>"e?lf
feufe
mm
if99t<iei%ionii
tn tbi. JBduiatseipat
rntd to
(9)
t^
laeke
with hia
niothel*
be.
m
fm':-^
lifi#
biii fitl'>Sdttltlstti
|da*
>f
aXX *ft*
t ^fjrital^
t 1912 h *
to'
Muni d&
ati<i
fioma
tma
bravery,'''^
Through all
Shortly thereafter he
formed*
-60
corinion
rate waiter.
He resembles a second-
averags height.
The eyes
There is
(2} 8; IS; et
alV)*
%his t^ct
- 61 ^
Ms
handa.
cit
eaae;
in dompany
He
This is in marked
At
tteljti
'
begins with
-^
First
Kampf
-
Etcmei
NattiPe,
by warding off
work* (9, 84).
the.
^v
may be,
quellty computable to
fchey have e
Id^Hias
t^eligloiMl
exporienoe.
diylne miaalon
a .martyr fa
(16.)
>
death (16)*
Ijg)
wayto
'SPpward
one the
ona.
ohr.
He adorns as
But in matterf of
voice, 'Ttoledi
inn.oi*
t'
have
no matte
jB^
what hcpgena.
tim
- 6$
toward nfower
Hltler*a Attll;iJ49
n
"
rt
II
'
'
'
'
"
'
'
gig
ooct
li
.1
'
'ti9et4.
V
I
for
I
.I
il l
hltt
th^thd
Is
When he Is declaiming
At such
tinges he is
It
have determined to
educatloii of youths
car3|
they become
ftot
display; j^owdr^
"hd
bpfi
only
cortteifflpti
those
l^br
iho
64
"he
T>t
htos
He compares- t^em to
contempt.
-a
(9^).
sway. he feels
woman
whoi
'tuiily
prefers
fo:r
hitJiaelf
will of an
T>eo<nifle
Xooeliaeas (^)
opi^
>
(4).
Houses
ti^^ and
(9)..
the.,
He
of the
Jail
powej?,.
ddatructlOtt;^ brutality.
at least in childhood"
(9-5
And thare id
d.Yideu(j
w^
of it from hla days in Vienne (7)
that
tb(9
ly thrilling experience f or
hixn.
tremendo-ua'
andn' towprd
attitude toward the Jew& II
flttler*8
Vn
I
III
II
ii
AD^;;1^392ilti8iD
ftQQB#-^
a
11^1
"i
'I
II
II
Ji t
II
Europe
hajj
of.
all aorts.
The Jew
nature* (1$)*,
not only
111 Oeriiiaiiy
hi deatunietion may
thiJi i^ointi,
too, thfit
world be aa^ed*
It it at
-.^^''.
66 .
find axprdsaiofi.
inaejf'
emotioaal
ipeclfil
atroina.
hdfiith]r;
mojor
el^iJiont
fi
Am *'
Thet Hitloi?8
R?>bra,
as*
Prom the
well e many
In
no intlmotas at 11,
addressed with
(5)
whom be
and It la
Most
pokltioa of latitocoy.
txi'
o^'
B-f
.s
57
'
'
'
'
-.
tVh
HBhfsoh
Sts?isai3r
As far as can
aeaf.
oompletely locking.
lie
in= r^spiact,.
oacertrlnedf. It 1&
evon contemptuous
(71^^;
choice (8)
'
It
Hitler fascinating
company,
attd ila
^t
la;
the.
notT:y?e
pdrtner of
(16;;
(8).
In one cftaa,
fit of paaalon,,
(13),. or he so
I'n^
abased
Finally,
syphilis in
llteifi
Hoieohk atot<jents
(8)
thpt
"Isheite
im eloquenti underatctemont*'
fO-.
.>'^
68 -
*
.
Hitlef
3 n ee<S to
baen aald
abova.-''^
Bvei* ainoa
Hitler
aiaeovary
wor^
The manbeif
ani$
In private,
foS?
t<S
eaoh individual
be harangued,
father intended
hiib
Aa' ptihrer
hla intereat
At twelve
V'
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r-.v.t'
59
ttgaiikltt Kft^iirt
aetioni.
flia iairti
(1SI)
tiaidd
fiLa
aie^
td kBdws
thdii* i'an^ltien
It)
inapifwtidn
ffi^
his
^ir6i?a
fo^
ift
jad di-ifik/
thd plotii
thf towa
Ife
efaoftett
in
linigi<*
Infludlida
fiwraii!*
Among
copied
iriLgnr*tf tturgid
ot tj|i<;oaeiO(ialf
and botot^aaMii
h has
mkm^P with
of
hmtt
'
Xti
to cdfiaidar
>
Hitler*
ourn
11.
*^*'
^S?!j^''
^-'
70
of
(7)*, Seme, of
otherrfl
/l>wavaj?i
'Qolor,
airplay
1jljo\j|jb
jfxjiwai
aad wifeh
%mr& ^mt&iii
th
(jf
jftp1S3f
O^bft
df<ilat
all
j?Xi6^;
49lSQi
fu*^ii!ff.^^vtden
with
dai^s art
.of
f. of
QOnMlwIadt iHi^lmaT^d
aoii^ts
IftWJjf
il^te^y^lii^ **,
txt*ttt<
oj?$nljiWoi aad
papiOovip*iott,
p.9(p1q
|^'3tty lidg5$
|'a4?
t not?hig oHglJMil..
1?bi?e
l^ paklntlga '$^^m *
old
fl^l^
aoja*
%mt ^
th, *or4c8
A<^
ijiiX4tirjr
of
vaiP3f
hla oowaaiad
and
it ia
that Hitler
|j?aa.tst eiifeUt*
m9v
"by
a]*a
tLppiffivea
artlatlo
H -apahda
ajfehlUaoli^'a dtoaigaa
a,
and all
4evaty*fl*jc!0tbi0a(i
.$ro\j0aida
fti^a
i4>ffl
'dsi^
tiB^(^j^tnt
^
Garmany.
neur
Hla
all eafeaa^laa of
tfcta^e
emphaaaa*
:;;^';rr''^
by
niiay wi^ltara
t&
fiftuiiclmlDg
(6; IS),
j^-^vr'' <->r;r^c->?:'
i^^
He aettbaa nmcb of
tiba
decay, of oivillza*
of
Mtler'a ie all
of drinking.
thi| nojre
This
8tH-klng.aqiong
$0^4' heairy,
thftt
at
He 1*1
foi?
cated, ia'nev^rtheleaa
ft
Wlue
auppoaed to be important .
It ia hardly
:*
>:?'
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'
i-
Tjy
q^i
opportwoe moment*
^t2er
oantflLQt
oo<?\^riii^
lans atlsfactory
suld to
ISurppefih,
aji'
thMl
i^ oh
la an
apd
OJP
%d b
Pfern^
iattdei#*;aAdl&g
milieu*
H^
of
bati coa*-
Americiin points
o.f
to
nature.
(16)
At times
rF.
J ^^
n
wky
M^ tAimat
.(is)*
cmtburaii of
irox>l
ttotiliritjr
steadily,
but;
with expXoislve
Sven
Aisd
ha
ini
with
wton^
ai) iiBpoi!>taiit
bafora
1]&
.hiau
sev^rai dcc^aions,
tha eaae ot
ha was
Oi^
ai(
ataddailiX:^
tQ
thi|
THE SOXmCES
bxOfldcast
Traits 4
thexa (X6).
<yp
#iJi?
oosnait auicida
pXana ot the
itlTLM^S MAIADJ^STltENfS
t>t
lew
It Is difficult
n
Id pfobabXf falla
thlatlc
pyknic CIX).
l^gj*6up
tbotigh ^^^rglng on th
of teinpex<atndnta*'
grdi2|$
ixi
tti
&f
$y)landi(}8i0iiphy,
>
/
iaoj*a
itiitpoi'tant,
a atrongiy
llhia
flithef .waa
of^
Ovai* tith
rebeXXiouaneaa to lt#
Further, we
hia mother f
possibXe
___^_^.,.^_..____^,^,
':-',-ri^-yiKJ--^fTJ'T^-,.}-'^^T^'^
f^C'-''
,.?::-
..
,.
'^
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j...^T./v-;;:-i7^;.;!%.r^>/.,,.-... ,.. :;
,..:
75 *
t;h
consistent
fi|ilu|*e
fai^ui^
to.
arrlTS
at. aiiy
there was
l?"he
toirtird
^ew
\ip*
tn Vienna,
of'
course,
Jrtfws
;'v^?;;/i?r^rV^
hift
known.
^t
Oetttiah
race.
of^
the blood
of.
f Wsgrie?
a-ljO
ii,
Butf
Thla
for
ift
a-
moi?e
77
to
thi
-.
of beth.
source
With $ f^thei*
being is then
aliL
Terrified by
the hatred in his
nrevttsit
thr p&2*ahold
Of grandetuf
typtf^
nm
be deseHbed as of
ileitis ion*
of persecution and
i^nge^ tmf
#ith
must be treated as
But it Is the sort df explanation which fits
known psychological facts
such*
n
a the aourtid of
J'swi
thitti
tjo
#hft
Inf ^otitjflji
*ftd
f\WciJloft wliieli
op&0aitet x tt1anoiX
$&m
mice*
Itt pafeiM^e*
iii
wllJh
Mi
aJDdk
The apllts.
tft
Hitlar*a
dual
twier eonflileti
pei^aciiiAlity
tim both
om
hfe
fhii
M- ^lyiQ$
the
father*
eit)ie"c ted
into the
the Tathsr*
,J"U8t
-*
th Auatrian state<
of blood.
Gerinanif,
So Hitler
infection, destroys her eneniies, breaks their eneirclement, removes every re$trii:tion upon her so that she
and restriction.
Hot ohly is the Pa the j* feared but he ie a source
beloved mother.
cbmplete possession.
Por
hiia
ori
oiiin
i*0t'6
da
80 -
Jewish^
at'
ev^ry
aggressive step.
limitj it
succasa
Whati that is
s*..
Q$itinot
hfis
<i
<
feelings *;?-^
^^
W:
^.
- 91 -
fie
my
hiaf
pdcpld
an<5
their neighbdrd.
BlBLIOGHAPHy
X.
Bloch, E.
M^ PATIENT HITLER.
Collier* , March 15, 1941.
2,
Dodd, M.
.THR"CTOr"!EHBK3SY EYES.
New York: Harcoiift, Brace, 1^59 .
3*
Parcigo, L*
4..
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16.
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Medlcus.
SECTION
Iltetailed
HI
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(Written especially
for psycholo.glsta
and psychiatrists
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PQRE7rORI>
and in strength*
?ress (plural:
,_from an^ object
press).
A press (for
Press
.''-
.^
<.'f>'j
,'.-
- 83
dathecta^
^e
(de]^ re elates^
--^
their ability
can vary in kind
1^
STATSir^IT OP
PROBLEM
THli;
common
biim^
an
ias
Vienna,
'it i*as
'?and
miserable life,^
I once
asked him
He answered:
letting-down in distress.
'
84 ^
demlgodt
the.*
"Hell Hitler^
The
to Christy
The
matt
rabrTi
How was
Tor
mm
to succeed where
kind of
vihet
chief
Whet conditions in
likely to do next?
-as
aglilil
odrS
hd bo treated so that
as a legendary figure
tjo
(iru'eatidnfl
in thia t*aper
1?he"
"or
Mission^ as he conceives
gliqi
Pe^er>
.,^^
cori
V'eakness,
ovei* the
- 86 w
(A
He
passionate
is hollow cheated, end in the throes of
fie
rou^
games.
Ih Vienna,
We.r I
was rejected
for service.
Some
- 87
doscrlbed es womenlsh
-^
of, a
girl
thx^owlnga baseball^
2*
Medical
arid
Paychlatrlc Hlstogy
This Is probably a
neurotlclsm*
In other
Xt has
d\mib,.
vocal chord.
(1)
pacing,
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'#*'J|- -fS'T../'^
- 88 h
and botrQyGl; (2) weeping and exhibitions of selfpity; and ($) falling on
mouth, bltlt^g the carpet.
OVe^e
his
the-
5f the stOinftch.
lit i
He Is the proto-
tvirn to
look at
with
a fixed,
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Behind
ea l^o'^ltlvtXjp hypo^i
t?i
bebitudl ^aejaftcf
j^aXms
iTaXloi*
oplat and
'haranguing an
good effeot;*
t^o
tii
cXaiaoiy.
amny
pat>tjat
down the
fip?eat
thai t
worahlpfuX adhetenta,
a?here is
goCKil*fitured
the graciotis
Austrian, gentXe^
deed canary*
* 90
'
tshe
HitXer
,,'
Xlmp/
a nightfljarej the
indoieritj>
and indecisive}
addressing
^
the.
singXe individual*
Of aiX these, it is
It is because
...
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1837
1830
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1883
188S
cal88$
marriage
Bllfth of Angela Hitler
Delith of Pran^lska llatzelberger
1884
1884
1865.
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m
A,
1889
X907
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hfefl
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arisen tn
iw^jftrd
soon a iw reaXl
Hledle^, ^ettlar
b^f iJiffes?orit
lilltej?ate peaaant^ajnlijr*
yrhtQ botli
deaoendod
froni on
graat-gpndfather)| an inhabitant
KarBhal
Hifidenburg
Al6li Hltloa ^^
HitlfiJ<*f fatllGi?,
Note tettemblahee
to Rlhdenburg.
p'
94
tlid
t^^aritig'
on eu dna3.3r^i9
ai*a
Acdoraiug t$ aa
(ai
l)6ufc
tliea9
iii<it;dpy
0r4ai?ed
^aHah
wi
raaaoift al)
homa
ii^Jtef*
IB Xlna mX%h
(t)>
Itt
tha go4fatie
tha ^otrntry*
jraw^
ftalf*
lari* pirina
efbiaaon Adolf ^
aay
avafttj^
la
.no
doubt mada
t^a
a1}
ijpt
ijhia
tibia byi^ttlMala*
Bayluipa It
Sohiiekl^
of vt anna I ta
?6
Vtermaa4( family*
^andaUr
thd
bflieaiiia
aai^ant In a
Am&
fey
which ha
iaa reaj?ad#
(o)
'<5ol)bler
a cuatoma
official.
'man-hunter^
tbat
bEid
)
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<-
*i:*vV
!j-
,.
^, '^^^^
^ 9 -
(d)
iff
lower lip#
He wore
patrolman carried
Hs smoked
He
He died of apoplexy^
wife.
submissive.
tyrant*
(f
Physical
^'
if.
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98 -
Haniach reports
Germany and all the faults of Austria;" but, according to Heiden, more reliable informants claim that
the
nationalist.
Germany*
(h)
P^^-
;\^
'J
97 -
Relations to father
'"
He
vocation:
.
- 98 -
Of this
(ii)
No matter how firm and determined my father might be in carrying
but his plans and intentions once made,
his son was Just as stubborn and
obstinate^.* (V^K. 12)
It wns a classical
father-son conflict.
(j)
Hote l
In
edntemptudus
mannei:'*
(twenty**- three
99 -
8*
Mother
(e)
f>er8 6helity
of Mother
ajTs
thoaf i
Her
everything had
home was always spotlessly lieeh,
furniture.
Its place, not a speck ot dust on the
relatively young
She had a gentle nature. Her
domestic
age, her docile character, her years of
service
Christian resignation.
of life with an
whims
Adolf she was ever devoted, catering to his
i^as who
to the point of spoiling him. She it
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Tho mother
',^5 3^
100-
opis rated,
fsnd
I,:
;'^-:
v^rrs
inrrkod by
"LI-
r-.ncd
^tiotnstBseG
in the
lunss
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r'^
-J'--
Relation^-.- to^
(b)
Mother
.-^iTM
v.:
"^..-^
publicly
eibout his
obtsiri-o-ai*^
v.-^-.
'^:""
,..'*the
kindness, (M^K*
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105 -
(c)
SlbllDga
It is
Sl>"
The
Angela Hitler.
a.
half-sister,
The half-sister,
bureau in Linz.
For
Consequently, he must
very peculiar,
Vienna.
several men in
t\arn,
It is
-.^jf^.'-X'^"' *'*?'
r#<
v'""-^:")C>'*
104 -
(11)
"'**
bom*
One of
some informants*
$,.
He was sensitive
He liked to
frustration
which were
reifiapded
the
to his wiah^i?^ (This was hi way of "courting
;\^'^^
>'
'>,'^.-
- X06 Vr
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.
(c)
lenient ,
that Hitler
told him- that the people of the Innviertel
were great brawlers and that, as a boy,
he used to love to wAtch their fights.
Also, that he used to enjoy visiting a
fine exhibition in Line of deadly weapons.
What others abhorred appealed to him.
(N.B., Here is fair evidence of repressed
aggression (sadism) during boyhood.)
(li)
^nish reports
(M.K. 8).
Ih
S'-f',-.
106 -
.V.'
,. an
MM-'
by making
to leave school, he won his mother's consent
himself sick.
t
. 108 -
(e)
frcon
likely that the boy was at all popular with his class-
ma tos
Sexual Misbehavior.
(f
twelve Adolf had committed a serious sexual indiscretion with a little girl.
Conclusioria
(Oedipus
Weakness of Mother #
'
- 109 -
ih
Although Hitler
m-
(e)
The
the
- 110 -
(f)
fortune in Vienna.
I,
(g)
He finally
(1
(d)).
great
It is said that Alois Hitler had a
rise
respect for the class system; was proud of his
looked down
in status; envied those above him and
father
upon those below him. If this is true, the
of s6ntiwas Inatrtmiental in establishing a pattern
son's
ments which itka of determining importance in his
of his
career. Adolf Hitler has always been envious
any
superiprs and deferential j ha has never showed
II"
-.
(3)-
father
Ill--
-ava^? the
hung
a portrait, of hia
study at Berchtesgadan-
de^)^ In his
Moltke,
s-nd
te^-^^;.:
rooitia-
Th^^re is no-
Aloitt,
it.
us
ahatemloiisneee.
are different 4
Interest In women*
O^ere can b* no doubt then that. Hitler greatly
and.
admiration, desiring to be as he
(M. S4)
Henceforth
Hitler's
very similar. It
se^imsj
to his admliratlen
He wrlt^*j
foi?
^^
his
113 -
(1)
, Incredibly vigorous power that
inhabits this age-old institution (Catholic
Church)
11
II
'
II
li
-li-
II
f ill
own ittakin^*
perfect mother.
mother; but
thai? he
- 114 -
(k)
Some evidence to
t>t
his incapacity to
be-*
He writes:
(i)
I owe much to the time in which
I had learned to become hard (in Vienna)*.
I praise it dven more for having rescued
me from the emptiness of an easy life (in
fested a
cjueer
tiae
female Sex.
Every woman he
for so doing.
Since he
haiel
Iri
always been
X15 -
It is even possible
des-*
- lis ^
(hiaifftthei')
bullied
>
Rejeotion i
The former came mostly from his father? the latter from
many people.
Among
t;he
specific causes of
thlis
idea
(2) the
later.
lis
*.
Repudiation of ?ast
S(9Xf
(i)
in him.
(ii)
(iii)
Viennese Jew.
(iv) His father had three wives,
waitress, one
one a
fi
out of marriage.
(vi)
Kiara
Poe^p:|.,
- 117 -
(vlll)
(ix)
He himself had tb
'
On the other
We
haire a
^r
Between
hlidl
iri
* 118
(o)
Ide^tif JQetlQQ
wlttet
aqrn>any - 51tler'
early age and was the factor^ more than any other which
intense insociation:
.
(i)
Cathoxis of power.
The figures of
- 119
(v)
a biarrier.
-'
that an
-i-
so
iiaai
<San
not
In this
Hitler's con-
the father*
eVeit
stem
find iduch
evldenca
fifr
thi hypothesis
humiliation.
woman;
appeal to those
who, severed from the motherland,
have to' fight for the holy treasxire
of their language., .find who now in
painful emotion long for the hour
that will allow them to return to
the arms of the beloved mother...
(M.K. 161)^
(vii 4)
He
- 121 -
Jiiotherland,*' "the
We are
ari
easy life,
speaking
It is reported
afid
iiri
He always
- 122 -
B, VIENNA DAYS
1908 - 191S
The 'chief facts pertinent to the present analysis
are these:
1,
On December
He failed.
He moved to.
,br ought
But
He was told he
than draftsman.
2.
or flophouse.
press Aggression.
(2)
1x6
had a
n\janber
Hitler
Therd was
Anti-Semite himself
4.
According
term in Jail*
- 124 -
6.
Hitlerian projection.
7.
practices in Vienna.
a purity complex.
9.
e^
sex pervert.
There was in
^ 125 -
(I)
Generally/ it Is the chlldx^en of
higher place,, momentarily well-to-do parents
who. In turn are deemed worthy of ft higher
education. Hereby questions of talent play
a subordinate rdle.
.
(II)
Vienna, the city that to so many
represents the idea of harmless gaiety, the
festive place for merrymaking, is to me the
only living memory of the most miserable time
of my life t
12*
Living
pro-^
It was natural
V}.-
- 126 -
an-
arid
man from Llnz who could not get through Jligh School
was capable of profiting by what he saw and read, and
that these five years of drifting and Irregular em-
Vienna.
He writes:
(I)
So in a few years I btiilt a foundation
of knowledge from which I still draw nourishment today. (M.K# 29).
psychologically is this:
'
- 127
(1)
middle class.
riong
up the ladder by
No
his son:
128 *
V.
(iii)
munists
'
the world.
alism.
,(iv)
*s
dictatorship
- 129 -
or the elite*
His
notion of equality.
130 -
C.
WAR EXPERIENCES
1914
1919
our theme
1.
meitibar of a
respected institution.
to
was not only a great relief to him, enabling him
At
ground
a messenger and was required to traverse
that was being shelled by the enemy.
appears, was
Hitler, it
at
tasks of this kind and was said to be an adept
In this
been
the War Department of any episode such as has
- 151 -
supposedly
medal aftel- he had left the Front,
Allies.
one of the last offenalved of the
gassed
marked
Informants have commented on Hitler's
3.
'
offering to
subaerviehce to the Superior officers,
menial tasks,
do their washing and perform other
an extent that
courting their good graces to such
his comrades were disgusted.
4.
company
Hitler Ta3 the only man in his
that in
It is hard to explain the fact
prompted above the
four years of service he was not
by one of his officers
rank of corporal. The comment
is the only explanathat he' was ft neurotic fellow
5.
from a
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iV
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JiT.aSSW i,V>?H?
'.
153
v.^:;
I
-/
that
waa after haari.ag^'the news of her capitulationhe
^jLad
his viaj
his sight
c:i
-of
restored.
Vh'as
?,;.'
Suddenly
ri*"
.'
"T'T
tT.-"
^^^^'
^^(:^??5dB:2t^^.:f
7.
a"
namely,
to- &cq'ali:*e
# -
^'^
"
\\
typical
.to.
v/as
V/e
had
*:
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-.
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.....
..
p.
- 133 -
D. POST-WAR EISTORY
1919
being highlighted
1,
to one informant;
Later
This
for life.
succesB hinged on
hlfl
His phenomenal
mass-rpuaing talent.
- 134 -
3.
Hit?wfar
among
tlie
sudden emergence
as a corporal behind the lines, but his
- 1923
as a spiritual force d\iring the period 1921
lilEIN
A selection
of how
in reference, might be quoted here as a hint
the transformation was apperoeived by him:
.135 ^
of
It seems clear that It was (1) the defeat
Germany and
(2) the
behavior
to strive that acted as Instigators to his
- 136 -
especially
subaervienqe to ranking officers in the Army,
Ludendorff
in the^e days in his relations with General
a
but from 1984 on, although he never entirely lost
were these:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d).
Allies, and
Soon afterward*
(e)
Anti-Semitism.
(f
. 157 -
8.
>of
ttiat
Instead of antagonizing
hiio
were plotting
Everyone sought to
- 158 -
('
company and was pathologically jealoua of any attentions shown her by other men. .Two informantf have
Whichever story
a
is correct, however, we gain the impression of
peculiar and stormy relationship.
Rumors have it
women, the
a xmique performance on the part of the
you, .ccoe
down
by
to it, amounts to a vegetarian diet, served; him
o/.
the best chef in' the Reich, and a great variety
soft driiiks in place of hard liquor*
It is said
after
that he did not permanently give up meat until
the death of his niece Oeli *
V. PERSONALiry STRUCftJRE
1,
Ego
Here we are
powers
^a)
(I)
During
Ms
boyhood, especially
He
ti^s
unable to
an^
He
'
t^
.* X40 .
(Ill)
Incapable of working.
Indeed, he Is
It Is to work continuously.
lUs habits
go to bed at eleven
at seven or at noon.
(v)
P*M.,'
He may
He Is rarely p\inctual.
'
He is languid nhd
spasmodic activity,.."
(b)
of*
-^
..
Ul
As Roehm says,
vacillates
find
procrastinates."
even
His tantrums have been often described., and
capacity
such
to turn them on and off as he sees fit, stilly
of
of;
all.Qrt.
speeches
All. of Hitler's writing* and reported
ex*
exhibit a disorganization of ideas.^d verbal
preasion which at times verge's on the pathological.
(f)
errors
shown any capacity to perceive or admit his
determinaand defects. Part of this, is a ;Conscious
tion to folloit the policy of denying them, this
- X4a (g)
oblif^ationa
.^^
^^
^^
^^^^ ^^^^
^^^ ^^^^^
^^^^
His political
first, an
from society,
(iv) power to resist dictatorship of ooh-
ventlonal superego,
(v)
energy
by stating that Hitler bperatea on t halamic
planning.rather than o n conacious will en d rational
accomplish
Possessed by fanatical paadion he can
moderate
which those who act on cooler and more
things,
Tbff
aei?-
vice.
Id
tout
It la
a tree a them.
They are
Wa:
sound Iniitincts .
144 -
He
hils
must
He
-nati
(Iv)
Its the subconscious the work
It matures, sometimes it dleS.
goes' on.
Unless I haV'e the inner incorruptible conviction: this is the solution, I do nothing.
Not even if the whole party tried to drive me
I will not act; I will wait, ho
to action.
hfiippsna.
But if the voice speaks
what
matter
has
pome to act. (Quoted
time
the
know
then I
chining
fromi Raus
)*
.
'
He "spent his
"that he
145-
large
wrapped. up In his dream world, is unaware of a
hla party.
Goebbels,
without the continued co'operation of men like
must
downward pull of unconficioua processes Hitler
it were,
often ptai himself up by the bootstraps, as
to meet an emergency.
(v)
I go
monomanla.cal
compound of motivations, which amounts to a
a rigid,
idea* will be fully described later. It is
thalamltJ
fanatical, and indurable reservoir 6f the
threa times
energies which, on release,, have two or
bear upon any
the potency that a normal man brings to
collaboration
one reasonable objects The ego Is in
service,
with this unconscious complex,, operates In its
check
and can, within limits, call it intd play or
indeed.
it momentarily. On appropriate ocoasions,
possessed
Hitler makes, good "use of his capacity to be
by the complex.
mouth,
intoxicated by the worda that pour out of his
yj'
146 -
Baker Eddy*
i;
Besides
&
147
paranoid schizophrenia.
hate and revenge fulness "in the man and the acts of
symptomatic of schizophrenia
Superego
Iti fBems
tbie
Be has a super-
148 -
The con-
g|*eat
Its
(2)
- X49 .
politics*
(v)
Conscience Is a Jewish invention*
It is a blemish like circumcision.
Nothing is
**
150 -
He has
His
* 151 /
hlis
close fDllbw-^
tendency.
latisr acts of
ti3
methods t
so
Irj
--^
the'
pi^ojectlons so common
show*
I
,^
...
/
-152^
4.
6y
Pro.^eetlon
Thla
There
ia
ia no record of any caae in which thia. proceas
It operate* ao
acoma
and-obndemna one gets a fairly accurate and <?omprehenaive view of hia own id.
right ia laid."
wrong of
is admitted the cause for doubting the
opponent is laid. He also has enough know-
oneU
of
ledge to realize that accusations are evidences
this is the
guilt, for he says, "If they now say that
entire
signal that Germany now wants to attack the
seriously:
world, I do not believe that this is meant
fe'v
- 163 -
rental rkabXe
greatest projector.
psychologists
(i)
ixB,
Hitler
'
"I
was my first
- 154 -
zae
statement is pertinent:
In
Wly
wrong.
'
- 155 -
(v)
.'
(vii)
-b
a.
156 -
-For his
I talked until
my tongue was
X57 -
projections
The intensity and frequency of these
delusion.
amply justify the diagnosis of paranoid
5.
'S>
idea lego
compound
The Idealego, as we define It, is a
the subject, which
of images, engendered in the mind of
level of aspirarepresent what he would like to be, his
his career,
tion, his best self at the height of
the man
that of a great
be the figure of a master criminal or
dependent
benefactor or prophet, its exact nature being
Id, ego, and
upon a host of factors stemming from the
that the idealsuperego. lii Hitler's case it is clear
and unego is the aominant force of his conscious
in
conscious life. We shall discuss, it presently
drives and
connection with his major configuration of
sentiments*.
108
B.
(
between the
it is not expedient to make a distinction
ftid
is of a relatively
relatively few men who has largely lived out his fantasy.
are the
The main elements of his major configuration
following:
X.
cathexis
to all forms of weakness may bo divided into (a)
rulers
of powerful nations and (b ) cathexis of powerful
*
Posikve cathexis
- value, attraction,
power to evoke
love, respect.
the reverse: power to evoke
cathexis
Negative
aversion, scorn, hate.
.
- 169 -
'
(1)
(natlona ).
The vety first enthusiasm entertained by the boy
Hitler
iras
We have already
'
160 -
Hitler:
(rulers)
have
tout
toe en
certainly in
ti^' co\arse
Mussolini
>:
It Infuriated me
a.'^' Hi tie J?:
even more. than the Viennese Press...
expressed its objections against the
German Kaiser. ..Such things made the
toiobd rush to my head.
- X6X -
He said. ..Wagnex*
was a nghtar^ there was more greatness
and power in Wagner.
b.
flanlsch:
^^il
is marked
The figui^e of power admired by Hitler
and absence of
by cournge, fldlitary valor, brutality,
6f him
sympathy or compassion, tt is characteristic
weakness
to interpret humane feeling a s
2,
Differing from
"a
t6wer
presence of his
that he was forced to adopt in the
overbearing father.
^ges
si^g
(ii)
Strassei?.":.
Hitlei:*'^
attitude towarda
/.
, ;'.[LT.::/^.r.
*.'^
.^v. -^\. vj
:
,r^.
'"^V^?^*^'
^il53
V .
'
>li'ijV*"'i- i:r
f-'fir'V*"
s
^ '4 "
Ji
..,
Hltlei? 'a
"boiw*
(ill)
-J
,,
'
-H
;.
^.'
5,
,,
natural completots of
power.
A'
his.
164 -
mtler:
Jewish
Christ-Creed with its effeminate pity-ethics.
(Rausohning)
(iii)
Hitler:
.. .the
4,
Tlie
ner.ely
that of
What was
orice
the goal
external became internal and was accepted as
notion- of the. powerful
of endeavor. Around this central
based on
individual there has developed an ideology
in nature. The
the so-called aristocratic principle
superman, leader
final conception is that of a super
- 165 -
This
tinie
1?he
follo^ng
(iii)
. :.
166 ^
ruthleasne ja
nothing but brutal strength and
J"
"SrsT^Via la an excellent e^fPl
^f
^"^
crux
the
p?ijeition and sums up in a nutshell
of Hitler's personality.
Hitler: In the end, only the urge
^j^^^^
for selfipreservatipn will ;*^??;^J;y
aa
"humaniry",
so-called
Under its pressure
stupidity,
of
mixture
the expression of. a
^
cowardice , an imagintiry a^PJ^^SLiS sun.
March siJ
will melt like snow under the
(U.K. 175).
(v)
'
by
Hitler: Terror is not t)roken
(K.K. 494-5)
power ofilnd but by terror.
Hitler: The terror in the workrvll)
(viii)
shops, in the factory in
rat lops
on occasions of mass demon st
i^^s <>|
long as^l\l^'^l'^
aa
q.
S" accompanied by success
<M.K. 58).
terror.
and
force
great
^^^lH^^l^Hi^Vi^
.
met by aS equally
$.
Social Idee t
t>6Werful Folk.
understand Hitler's
One will not be able to
force, its maintenance
personality, its extraordinary
influence on the German
this side insanity, and its
of hia emotional
people witiliut taking full account
he concelvea
a
identification with an ideal Germany a
efforta to the creation
It and the dedication of his
prlnciplea of hia program are
of such a Germany. The
of quotations
expressed in the following series
- 167 -
One
ffiLtler, quoted by Rauschfiing:
(vil)
foroe
tbfe% is and. remains eternally the same:
Bnplres are made by the isword, by superior force
not by alliances*
What must
bi9
.(h
168 -
with
party
small nucleus and built a rapidly growing
that
according to his preconceived social ideal, (4)
to Include most
this, party usurped power and spread
a.
of the nation:
(5) that
the national
confined to the German people within
wherever
boundary but to the German folk or race
that he envisages
they are. It is a world dominion
alike.
by people that are cons titutionally
is the
What we have here in the slpplest terms
to the
Master-Slave pattern of social relationships
is most distincexclusion of all other patterns. What
presence of this idea,, which is as old
tive is not the
'
6,
Power.
Need for Dominance. Ruthless Will to
powerful,
Hitler's positive oathecatlon of a
described, as
nation and a powerful ruler has been
in which Power
well as his creation of a social ideal
point. His deference,
was to be carried to Its furthe.^t
to face with representa^
even obsequiousness when face
described. What we have
tlves of power has also been
- 169 -
of
Ideal
aoclal
in
i^e
- 170 -
World War 1,
Prom
He gave
The ambi-
masses,
enemies.
a personality who enviously admires his
His
frustrate,
enemies are those who dominate ahd oppose and
ao patterns
this force but he worships the force and as
This explains
their
why Hitler was attracted to tha Marxists and
I.
in*
at the
ijlrtrt
he
mtta
approaching the
of himself.
(iv)
Hitler r
We
aM
^tier, quoted by
(v)
He is
map. 1* among \i|>t
Rauscbningj The
hare I Sow are you
hew
a secret* I have
you
tell
will
I
satisfied?
seen ttof Vlsieh of the new mien '- fearlesa and
formidable. X shrank f rem |ilml
(9#B Eete Is a suggestion tb^t
exercise of pdwif there Is a grd&ter
the
b^yond^
-shrinking before a still greater
enjoyment
force*)
- 173
7*
t^o
show the
quoted by Puchs:
Hitleri
fm
^in
Christ's
6f a new spiritual era which will endure, as
years.
kingdom was designed to endure, for a thousand
Hitler
is not to be wondered at, therefore, that
It
Hitler:
tljat I
By
work*
<M.K. 84),
- 174 ^
his.
resplendent.
a,
hiro to adopt,
Anyhow,
type by an adherence
he stands out among others of his
trooper or the
to the uniform of a commonplsc^ storm
vestments of an average
^jitizan:.
a fine
to the temptation of dressing himself up in
After
a
the war, he went about in jack-boots swinglfflg
has
hippopotamus- hide whip and a plastic surgeon
and he has
removed superfluous fat from his nose,
- 175 -
'
8\tL table
to hia pdaitloh;
In Hitler's case,
a,
vlndlctlveness which
adversarlea.
up with Hitler
- 176 -
Hitlei,
measures.
(ii)
There- will be no
But even if
The first to be
The
r^
J>
i77 -
Prom the
conceived tradition than it was a desire for relationship with concrete individuals*
Until he enlisted in
No doubt
forming
ati
Although
iri
a sense
One of
th.e
178
Hitler is inconceivable
He believed,
It v:as this
Not only
179 -
hiin
to construct an ideology
Nonis of the
-coiild
elements were
Besides this,
con--
communicate these to
thiei
Hitler is eloquent in
180 -
instigating action.
for exposition as maximally strong in Hitler's perIn boyhood he was already haranguing his
sonality.
(i)
The leader* is he
'
181 -
Orienting 'l?heina
12
tip
hij^
ar>d
Therefore, we
fallen motherland.
'
'
'
and- so,
hefcb.
182 -
re ve red a 3 the
live on
(N.Bi^
tin
(the
fulfllAent
of his word.
These are
attracted and shocked the world but what is more distinctive perhaps is not the presence of these all-too-
and affliction.
^185C.
'^gi^eater
section.
Suffice it to
mention:1.
'
111*
II
ii3
hk.
section i
2*
/^
184 -
It forms an essential
The evidence^
He speaks
No doubt
voyeurism:
185 -
top'
retreat kt Berchtesgadent
D.
pounteractive Nardisni,
personality represent
When one
^fxe
majority
Here we
186 -
;-
self-display;
3.
and action*
187 -
:.
(M.K. 12).
"
(Self -^Sufficiency)
When one is in
home, business,
'
188 -
;*
to be
7#
Oouhteractive Achievement
:-
persistent
restriving after
a.
>
189 -
;-^
to
verbal Rejection
and.
Aggression)
9,
190
Counteractive Aggression
>^
to repay an
tooth;
and frustrators.
(I)
Verbal
Physical
Intradeference (Compliance )
V^/ars,
etc*
obadlance
periences.
Hitler: But I knew just the same
(I)
that my place would be there where my inner
voice directed me to go.
lit
191 -
accomplishments of self.
Although, as I shall attempt to prove.
(i)
Hitler's character structure is a reaction
..formation to tendencies of which he is highly
contemptuous, both these tendencies and the
contempt. are largely unconscious to him. Much
more conspicuous in his conscious psychology
are his superiority feelings, his self-esteem,
his outf lying self-confidence.
(M.K. 27).
(M.K. 45).
./
(iv);
(tlitler believed himsQ^f a man of
destiny even while serving as a ci^rporal): In
those months^ for the first time^ I felt fully
the whims of fortune which kept me at the front
in a place where any lucky move on the part
of a negro could shoot me down, while somewhere
else I would have been able to render a different
192
13.
verbally
to defend'dne's self-esteem
n Defendance:
by blaming
personality, etc.
exalting other aspects of one's
the
Hitler's prime method of defending,
193 ^
Hitler:
if a people is to become
free it needs pride and will-power, defiance,
hate, hate and once again hate, (M.N.O. 49)
14,
Insult as stimulus
;*^:
It is characteristic
The following
'
15*
194 -
Therefore he is compelled, if he
his conscience.
This is demonstrated
principle of
his,
personality.
It is necessary for
lead to suicide
or.
mental breiakdown.
195 -
analyzed
Almost all psychologists who have
it by referring,
Hitler's personality have interpreted
formula: craving,
among other concepts, to Adler's
unhearable feelings of
for superiority coming out of
conception with
inferiority . We also agree to this
of Insult (wounded
special stress laid upon the press
tension of
narcism) and the consequent residual
then finding expression
revenge bolted up for years and
the
psychological associates Reached essentially
same conclusion.
(lO
however
Rauschning:
Every conversation,
this man
unimportant, seemed to show that
hatred. Hatred of
was filled with an immeasurable
Almost anything
what? It was not easy to say.
and his hatred.
might suddenly inflame his wrath
need of something to
He seemed always to feel the
hate
(ii)
RauchniRg:
is something
unexampled cynicism of Hitler there
a hypersensitiveness.
more than the repressed effect of
195 -
It is the urge
feeling.
Rausohning:
(iii)
hatred
Hatred
personal
Heiden:
alike.
deserve mention:
!
Pl:tyaical
-.197
3*
4.
5.
;-
of-
rivals
;"
'
This may be
Breakdown of courage
:-
(a)
.;
198 -
for revenge:
of the father.
(ii) Press of rejection coming from the
199
The death
v;ould
(iv)
of Vienna,
These
Later
200 -
combined with a
Feminine traits.
Hitler/s senti-
woman in man#
(ii)
to:
Hitler's
ship
(ili)
201 -
(iv)
Hitler
(v)
by their murder.
attracting such
Homosexual panic.
Some of the
202 -
(viii) Hitler:
Slowly the fear of the
Marxist weapon of Jewry sinks Into the brains
and souls of decent people like a nightmare.
(M.K. 447).
203
Hitler's exaggerated
(B^
(ii)), but a
masochism ^
Hitler, quoted by Rauschning: The
plain man in the street respects, nothing but
brutal strength and ruthlessness -- women,
too, for that matter, women and children.
They need wholesome fear. .They want to fear
something* They want someone to frighten them
and make them shudderingly submissive
(i)
I
Hitler, quoted by Rauschning:
-fearless
man
new
the
have seen the vision of
and formidable,: I shrank from him.
(ii)
projection of self).
(M.K. 458).
:,
204 -
insurmountable frustration*
critical abasements, we
his
(i)
Hitler, quoted by Rauschning: But
my magnificent V youngsters! Are there finer
ones any^'here in the world? Look at these
young men and boys J What materia 11 With
them I can make a new world
:'
..vanity in a beautiful,
Hitler:
(ili)
well shaped body (to be encouraged by men
wearing less concegiling clothes).
It is reported by Rauschning that Hitler has
205
Hitler^s aggressive-
The varieties
is-
of hi&self .^
III*
enimie rated
of them, ihight be
we' ha^ve
t6 call: attentlpn^
opposite tendency,
(a)
206^
superiority of bteed.
tion
He,
one feeble-
minded.
:\
my young men be
--
youth
Note
athletics*
(c)
more Germans.
- 207 -
(d)
istic anarchy
pxmctilious
preaches "my new order" and demands
discipline from his subordinates
are many more of
All these contrasts, and th^re
/of Hitler's selfthem, are pitiful demonstrations
the diagnosis that we
loathitig and as such clinch
nearest to a recorded conhave outlined here. The
that has ever come: to
fession of his own self-contempt
reported by Rauschning.
us is a statement of Hitler's
young,
I km hegihnilng with the
(i)
Y^s, .we are old
we older ones ai-e used up,n the
marrow. . .we
We ar e rotten t
alreadv
f^^'ttl:.A rZ ".n^ .entimenUi.- We are bearing
pas t; ana have on
; ^^ ^!::L If' humiliating
Xou of serfdom
our bi^Xthe dull recoiiec L
youngster^l
magnificent
my
and servility.. But
.-./.
,etc*
\
'-'
..
.'
.^
"^
Ml)
'
bi^
IV.
e Jewish Race.,
we q^tlve Cathexis of th
This is as good
M place
seer^s
to have been, in
of this sentiment:
his case, the chief determinants
1.
208 -
Lueger,
the suitability^
with
3*
and traits:
warming up period
209 -
3*
action:
'?
etnd,
ideology^
210 -
VI.
SECTIONS B, C, D, E.
DEVELOPIvIENT OP HITLER S SEX COMPLEXES
There were no
quently,
.the
Conse-
211^
VII.
/'7
Hitler has
Not only
u^.
Pull appreciation
of the importance of the
n
^m
-
'
'
,.";....
..,
,1.1
,.
-'
Two quotations
(II)
\.
212 -
3.
longings.
4.
to
arid
dedicate themselves to
common
He has perceived
are
as-
<!'
hungry for
It is with the.
213 -
It is an error to believe
philosophy.
pertinent,
(M.K. 222).
8.
214
forces In vlvld^ concrete iinagery that is linderstandable and inoving to the ordinary, man >
th(3
This cornea
form of Imagery
force on earth*
objective
cold,,
8.
the,
deepest unconscious
and writers*
9.
'
not
placei if the emotions are
does not take
action
m
II
"
i" n
ii
>ii
*!
Ml.
'
'
'
'
"^
'
'
"
^1.
II
II
I,
involved *
- 215. -
10*
ii B
ill
rallies,
|,iw
111,1,11,
i{
.,,
involves
This
^
arid
feiatival a.^
M m n n
n
il
ii
ii
ii
--
the
can accomplish
The intense
12.
215
This most
What is involved
It is the spectacle
social purpose.
They
I submit,
217 -
and- his
pronouncement
14
Mastery,
15
tion4
of-
In many
17
Mtler
218
'
'
..
it^ is
.1.1
I
1
I..
What
disorderly and romantic style of life is .very comparable to the pattern which authors have found most
Tempera-
One
a
life
As Thyssen
Even in a
- 219 .
19
Thus, Hitler
Vs
course is immensely
21.
This has
never to admit
blame
time
blame that
;
(
power as
popular orator
220 -
X>e
221 -
PREDICTIONS
one'
'
1.
neurotic
strength.
Ije
has spoken,
value.
nervous Illness
222 -
military Staff
are"
If his
If
after a victory.
weep^
- 223 -
or shot*
the above course of events
On the
Koch*
bet^itfeen
But
Thus we can
of
-a
This is not
in Germany will
be*
224 -
military or political
Finally, if
At a
e'^lite
countrymen as
valiant hero.
He is very likely to
point of view.
immortality
-*-
Serman :
-^
Hitler
But
225 -
he"
Thus, he
able.
Cftesar by Brutus,
commit ^1.suicide;
Hitler may
r
^ H
5.
M ill
II
.n
il
III
IP
I..
Itll.
11
>
.ll.*!
manner*
him prisoner*
Ais
a:
clima-jc he
'
226
(a
suitable
silver bullet
neutral country : -
course.
persuade
hiir
Since the
that either 3 or 4.
?
This out-
This would be
8 but is
SECTION IV
>
II
n.
II
SECTION V
>
Secition VI
Part D)