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Neuroses aplenty in Hitler profile: Hitler was a feminine boy

Profile: Hitler was a feminine boy

Adolph Hitler was a feminine boy, averse to manual work, who was "annoyingly subservient" to superior officers as a young soldier and had nightmares that were "very suggestive of homosexual panic".

The mass killings that he perpetrated later stemmed in part from a desperate loathing of his own submissive weakness and the humiliations of being beaten by a sadistic father.

The first psychological profile of Adolf Hitler, commissioned by the US Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, has been posted by Cornell University Law Library on its website.

It was written by Dr Henry Murray, a personality expert at Harvard in the 1940s and 1950s.

The document diagnoses in Hitler neurosis, hysteria, paranoia, Oedipal tendencies, schizophrenia, "infinite self-abasement" and a fear of contamination of the blood through contact with a woman.

It presents no scientific evidence for its findings.

Murray predicted that the dictator would commit suicide. "There is a powerful compulsion in him to sacrifice himself and all of Germany to the revengeful annihilation of Western culture, to die, dragging all of Europe with him into the abyss."

He speculated that Hitler would arrange to have himself killed by a German or a Jew, to complete the myth of the hero betrayed. Or he would retreat to his bunker and shoot himself.


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Posted by Editor at April 1, 2005 04:12 PM