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Robert G. L. Waite is Brown Professor of History Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Post-War Germany, 1918-1923 and Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics.

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"The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behavior, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this"

Zusammenfassung
The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behaviour, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waite's ultimate aim is to explain how Hitler's psychopathology changed German,and world,history. With The Psychopathic God we can begin to understand Hitler as never before.

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Robert G. L. Waite is Brown Professor of History Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Post-War Germany, 1918-1923 and Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics.

Klappentext

'The Psychopathic God' is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolf Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behavior, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on his complex figure.

Zusammenfassung
"A triumph--a wonderful mixture of psychological perception and good sense. . . . Even though a thousand books are written on Hitler, this will long remain the best."--H. Stuart Hughes

***The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behavior, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waite's ultimate aim is to explain how Hitler's psychopathology changed German--and world--history. With The Psychopathic God we can begin to understand Hitler as never before.

Inhalt
The Image and the Man * Physical Characteristics * Personal Qualities * Fears and Obsessions * Hitler as Religious Leader * A Man of Contrasts The Intellectual World of Adolph Hitler * Hitlers Reading * Hitler and the Arts * Ideology * Struggle: The Father of All Things The Child As Father to the Man * A Jewish Grandfather? * The Father: Alois (Schickelgruber) Hitler * The Mother: Klara Plzl Hitler * Adolfs Infancy and Boyhood * The Case of the Missing Testicle * Hitlers Primal Scene Trauma * Later Childhood * Negative Identity: The Linz Dandy * The Death of Klara * Identity Crises * Mission in Munich, 1919-1933 * Life-Style of the F hrer * Hitlers Love Affairs * Hitlers Sex Life The Past as Prologue: Hitler and History * The First Reich, 800-1806 * Germany without a Reich, 1806-1871 * The Second Reich, 1871-1918 * The Coming of the Third Reich, 1918-1933 From Private Neurosis to Public Policy * What Kind of Neurosis? * Psychological Roots of Hitlers Anti-Semitism * The Benefits of Identity Diffusion * Brutality and Abstinacy in Action * Trust and Mistrust in Hitlers Reich * Psychological Roots of Aggressive War * Hitlers Need to Destroy * Triumph Through Self-Destruction