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August 23, 1941.

By Walt Disney

IS NAZISM A DISEASE?

Hitler is a Neurotic

By Major Emmanuel Miller

This is the text of the third of a series of talks, "Inside the Nazi Mind, broadcast in the B.B.C.'s Overseas Service. The speakers- eminent psychologists and others- analyse the mental make-up of Germany's present leaders. The articles will appear fortnightly in the "Telegraph.'

I have no doubt many of you have niet people who are so im- pressed with the apparent sincerity of Hitler and with his energetic pirsult of his aims that they gloss over the deeper contradications in his doctrine and demands. These people fall to realise that Hitler's consistent method is to append to these forces in human nature that encourage elonilon at the expense of reason and objectivity. This is a dangerous attitude.

We must realise that the mening employed by Nazism are as signif- cant as the results they achieve. From the psychologist's point of view these are even more signif- cant. We must get clear the sinis- ter attractiveness of Nazism which has drawn for its banner the inost dangerous people; men who are a Теледи

unto themselves-men who disregard the signposts by which normal people are guided to social and moral destinations,

To understand these dangers, we ̄must-know ̄what goes on in the

minds of those who

sulle the destinies of Germany. Are they normal or abnormal ininds? It they are abnormal, why are they abnormal, and why are their methods so attractive to some or- dinary people.

One Track Mind

Exverience of modern psycho- that behindt logy has taught us mental abnormalities there is ni- wava sanne deep-lying emotional disturbance. Does this discovery hold true of the chief personalities n the Nazi Platform? Let us take the case of kler himself.

Now, it we study the behaviour as well as the writings of Hiller, we find that he is a person with o lier psychological, make-up. True, he shows a large measure of rent consistoney in his one track mind, but we notice that as in all neurotics the goal he adver tises

constantly varles. At one time is merely a desire for recurity: yot at others nothing short of universal domination will satisfy him.

Looking into the records of his life as far back as they go, we find he was a restless, dissatisfed and

unstable temperamentally

man, dogged by n sense and insecurity. To him the seemed peopled with dangerou persons and evil forces. many people whose inner minds are full of painful conflicts, Hitler was incapable of building up stable life for himself. Hence a reasonably stable external world aroused in him a deep fealousy sharpened by discontent.

Escape From Self

To escape the realisation of his own disordered state, he was com- pelled to regard the external world as full of disorder. In this respect. he reneta like any ordinary neuro- tle. I should explain, as a doctor, that a neurotle is a man who be rause of his main emotional con- flicts has developed certain mental and physical symptoms, not to be ranked as insane.

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You And such people in mental hospitals. Sometimes they are in- cipfent cases-just bad casen 'nerves, na ono might say. Some- times they are extreme. They think the world Is all against them.. You find them in ordinary homes., They will even try to engineer quarrola to turn the rest against him

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This is the behaviour of neuro-

ties. But, most unfortunately, Jitter is able to bring about in the world, conditions and events which correspond to the condition of his own neurotic mind. He prates , about order—n New Order-in the world, but he reduces the world to almost complete disorder jusi n the neurotle upsets his family. Seeing all nations as his enemies, he ends in making them his

enemles.

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His feelings of self-contamina- tion drive hằn to look for n source of this self-contamination outsido himself. He expresses his fear of sex-entanglement through the restrictions he impresses on olliers, He imagines Immorality in the must ruriocent

Но writes of his

fear people,

of venereal ditense and calls, under the guise of science, for universal sterilisa- tion of those whom he hater, He has no words bad enough for Freemasons, Jews and Commu- nists. In them he finds the sink. of corruption and the foundation of disease: and so he sets out to exterminate them.

Nose For Decay

It is interesting that he should huve such a sensitive nose for smell and decay: from cover in cover of "Mein Kampf runs the same wearisome theme of other Only Hitler people's corruption.

But ond bis comrades re pure.

the

most should he sense Intimate of these comrndes some

a threat to his polles, he immediate-

their impurity: wit discovers ness, the bland purge of June 1934. when friends and fees alike are struck down. To such an unstable mind, there can be no friends who

are

nat pote! ilally betrayers. Death alone can.sent a friendship.

Listen to his speeches. A hoarse survey of Germany's sufferings, a catalogue of enemies, a

rising volco screeching to a crescendo of rage and hate that has all the qualities of hyteria. And

And again. think of the long days of retire- ment when In his retreat in the mountains, away from friends and

nilkke, away from the real world, he searches his own soul and finds conviction of evils existing without. Is this the meditation of a Mohomet, » Buddha or a Moses, or is it the tortured man who searches into his own dark mind for justification for new methods of attacks?

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Each retirement has been an occasion for turning his mind Inside-out; each re-emergence; -an occasion for fresh-messures ngainst the corruptions with which ne Imagines the world is beset. Every is familiar with these haracteristics

which

may present in the dusiman as well as in the dictator. Our clinics pre full of

feel people who persecuted, yet are at same time accusers, And how readily and. ingeniously do they produce plausible explana~- tions and criticism of the external world to structure in support of their duubts, fears and accusations.

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Hysterical Type

But although Hitler has many of the traits of the patient suffering respects

from persecution mania,

his

character is in many other that of a hysterical type. There

are hall-marks-play.ro

of display-making of

demands tantrums. He is like n third-rate actor and loves display around him, not in himself, for his ascetiation denies him the right to bo, gay with himself; his inflated

cgolism calls for external display. He must give the impression of overwhelming power and must create an atmosphere of force in order to disguise from his Im- poverished soul a fear of his own Initure.

This hysteria shows itself in un- ending demands and ceaseless com- plaints that his rights are being denied him by his wicked oppon- ents. He is like the hysterical child who goes into a tantrum and

wat he will tear the house

If He doesn't get what he wants. But like the hysteric he is never satisfied. Romember the famillar cry, "This is my inst territorial claim."

There is also something wonian- Esh In Hitler's plaints and com- plaints, Like the hysteric, he wants to be loved; when he is thwarted, we learn of suspicious attacks of laryngitis or that travell- Ing bir is fearful to him. He moves from the heavy mood of Wagner, self-pitying,, morose and heroic, to the artificial, adolescent gaiety of "The Merry Widow" and the pretty dancing girls whom he sees again and again.

Reality Sense

But here you will want to ask a question. Is Hiller just a per- secution maniac? Is he only an unstable hysterical man? Here is my answer it isn't so easy as all that. Nothing could be more dangerous than to reduce the problem of Hitler to this simplieky.

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For Hitler, as we psychologists say, has a strong reality sense. as you might say, is a realist. In the experience of the psychologist, it is no new thing to find patholo- gical tendencies and tough realism legether.

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Not only has he the knowledge of the art of a showman and the - technique of the

single-track Intriguer, but has insight into minds and he knows how to play upon them.

The ordinary hysteric persecution manine seldom shows this capacity for realistic and effective action. This is

what makes Hitler so dangerous. Hkler knows how to exploit weakness, fear and suspicion because he has first hand knowledge of them all

He says with the Psalmist. “AR. men are liars," and his technique makes use of this knowledge. He knows how men act in the mass, He knows that reason in the mass is no match against the forces of emotion: that in

a crowd the gentler emotions of sympathy and love can be swept away by egoism and Jealousy. But he also realises that' unless ho plays upon sympathy, love and social feeling. he can do little with those to whom love, sympathy and gorint feeling are a necessary part of life..

Nazi Party

And so he creates the Nazi' Party -a fellowship which under the squise of mutual help, love and esteem, can achieve deeper, more passionate and more brutal nims, Having once chosen the band of brothers, he then makes his own Inwa. Low is my will, the Fuehrer's will.

Herein lies the secret and sinister attractiveness of the Nazi psychology; under the cloak of nationalism, it sanctifies the delinquents' moral standard, the law of private impulse.,

This is clearly not law as the democracles know it. However Inllible our laws may be, they' uttempt to make justlee Impersonat without regard to the political ex- pediency of the party in temporary power, Nazi Justice Is the gangsters' vendetta, and Nazi punishment, the morbid pleasure in destroying those who are hated.

Dangerous

For here the pathological comes to the surface again. Indeed, in. the Nazi mind, it is never far below the surface. It is the reality senso and the pathological condition to- gether, I repent, which bave made Hitler and Hitlerism" so terribly dangerous. It is thanks to unth that we have the return to the hendsman's axe, to the concentra

tion cump, tortent with-

out trial, to the

and the regime of so-called re-education... To the

of youth on the sacrifice altar of the State and the revival of an old doctrine, now expressed in the

"Only the best can for

But do not let us run away with any idea that the pathological or abnormal so much overshadows the reality sense as to rollove Hitler of

of responsibility. If Hitler were proved guilty as an indivi dual, say, of the crime of murder, he wouldn't be let off on grounds of insanity. He has too good a reallly sense for that. He knows the psychology of the average man. (Continued on Page 5.)

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