It’s interesting to hear that “you know who” is a germaphobe;
Adolph was too. Although I’m not implying that “bonehead” has
anywhere near the intellect “Der Fuehrer” had, one word does
describe both, megalomania, and other comparisons can be made.
Consequently I have compiled a series of quotes from “The Mind
of Adolph Hitler, The Secret Wartime Report”, authored by
Dr. Walter C. Langer.
“Many people have asked themselves “Is this man sincere or
is he a fraud?”. Dr. Walter C. Langer.
” I follow my course with the precision and security
of a sleepwalker”. Adolph Hitler.
“Do you realize that you are in the presence of the greatest
German of all time?”. Adolph Hitler.
“But I do not need your endorsement to convince me of my
historical greatness”. Adolph Hitler.
“I cannot be mistaken, what I do and say is historical”.
Adolph Hitler.
“He feels that no one in German history was equipped as he is
to bring the Germans to the position of supremacy which all German
statesmen have felt they deserved but were unable to achieve”.
Frederick Oechsner.
“I do not play at war, I do not allow the “Generals” to give
me orders. The war is conducted by me. The precise moment of attack
will be determined by me. There will only be one time that will
be truly auspicious, and I will wait for it with inflexible
determination. And I will not pass it by”. Adolph Hitler.
“I am one of the hardest men Germany has had for decades, perhaps
for centuries, equipped with the greatest authority of any German
leader–but above all I believe in my success. I believe
in it unconditionally”. Adolph Hitler.
“The psyche of the broad masses does not respond to anything
weak or halfway. Like a woman whose spiritual sensitivity is
determined less by abstract reason than by an indefinable emotional
longing for fulfilling power and who, for that reason, prefers to
submit to the strong rather than the weakling- the mass, too,
prefers the ruler to the pleader”. Adolph Hitler.
“The people in an overwhelming majority, are so feminine in their
nature and attitude that their activities and thoughts are motivated
less by sober consideration than by feeling and sentiment”.
Adolph Hitler.
“There is only so much room in a brain, so much wall space as it
were, and if you furnish it with our slogans, the opposition has no place to put up pictures later on, because the apartment of the
brain is crowded with your furniture”. Ernst Hanfstaengel.
“He has a matchless instinct for taking advantage of
every political breeze”. Karl Ludecke.
“It is a technique by which he would throw his entire entourage
into confusion by well-timed fits of rage and thus make them
submissive”. Herman Rauschning.
“Rage and abuse became the favorite weapons in his armory”.
Otto Strasser.
“He lives in the midst of many men and yet he lives alone”.
Michael Fry.
“If you try to tell him anything, he knows everything already.
Though he often does what we advise, he laughs in our faces
at the moment, and later does the very thing as if it were all
his own idea and creation. He doesn’t seem to be aware of how
dishonest he is”. Ernst Roehm.
“He has always been a poseur. He remembers things that he has heard
and has a faculty for repeating them in such a way that the listener
is led to believe that they are his own”. Herman Rauschning.
“He is unable to purify his gloomy self with self irony and humor”.
Axel Heyst.
“He is extremely sensitive to ridicule”. Karl von Wiegand.
“Most of the Nazis with Hitler at their head, literally forget,
like hysterical women, anything they have no desire to remember”.
Herman Rauschning.
“Hitler’s poor adaption to people is perhaps most obvious in his
relation to women”. Walter C Langer.
“The only criterion for membership in the Party was that the
applicant be “unconditionally obedient and faithful to me”.
When someone asked if that included thieves and criminals, Hitler said, “Their private lives don’t concern me”. Walter C. Langer.
“Hitler said; He would rather his S.A. men took the women than some
fat-bellied moneybag. “Why should I concern myself with the private
lives of my followers, apart from Roehm’s achievements, I know that
I can absolutely depend on him”. Karl Ludecke.
[Ernst Roehm was head of the S.A., storm troopers, a paramilitary
organization whose violent intimidation methods played a key role
in Hitler’s rise to power].
“We shall not capitulate–no, never, we may be destroyed, but if
we are, we shall drag a world with us–a world in flames”.
Adolph Hitler.
“Social Democracy[the Nazi Party] directs a bombardment of lies
and calumnies toward the adversary who seemed most dangerous, till
finally the nerves of those who have been attacked give out and
they, for the sake of peace, bow down to the hated enemy”.
Adolph Hitler.
The above quotes were excerpted from “The Mind of Hitler”,
author, Dr. Walter C. Langer.
Published by Basic Books Inc., New York, New York.
This analysis of Hitler was done in 1943 after “Wild” Bill Donovan,
head of The Office of Strategic Services, now the C.I.A., was
approached by Dr. Langer, a psychiatrist who suggested it be done.
Know your enemy, as it were. Donovan agreed and commissioned
Dr. Langer and a team of psychiatrists who studied documents and
interviewed Germans in the U.S. and Canada who had known Hitler.
Dr. Langer’s thesis is extraordinary, equally fascinating is the
“Afterword” by Robert G.L. Waite.
Finally dare I say, “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck,
it must be a duck, n’est-ce pa?, ha,ha!
Islander. PS. Publishing again as is even more rlevant today.