“Earlier in his career, the world had watched him with amusement. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that “he could not possibly last.” As one action after another met with amazing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement...
was transformed into incredulousness. “To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our modern civilization… In the course of relatively few years, he has contrived to usurp such tremendous power...
...that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble.” This is a quote from “A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend,” produced in 1943 (!) by psychologist W. C. Langer with the help of Professor H. A. Murray.
“…the leader of these activities became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a conclusion, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory from the point of view of the man in the street..."
"It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another. Having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is completely solved. “All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities...
...replace him with a sane individual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate… a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates...
...and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler." Time to revisit this: medium.com/mosaic2/he-cou…
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