HITLER: PATHOLOGY OF EVIL (H) - Hardcover

Victor, Dr. George

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9781574881325: HITLER: PATHOLOGY OF EVIL (H)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574881329 ISBN 13: 9781574881325

Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS, 1998

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Victor's book is the first to show that implementing the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions.

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"We know what Adolf Hitler did but still puzzle over why. Dr. George Victor comes as close to providing the answer as we are ever likely to get in this penetrating psychological profile of the Nazi demigod." -- Joseph E. Persico, author of Nuremburg and Piercing the Reich

"Hitler: The Pathology of Evil is a serious book that merits serious consideration. George Victor's interpretations of Hitler's puzzling wartime decisions, for example, are unique." -- Eugene Davidson, author of The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler

"The research . . . is thorough, the analysis is deep, and the resluts are of compelling interest . . . . Victor has drawn on child development, experimental and social psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and anthropology. His blending of these social sciences with history is masterly, resulting in a deeper penetration than any work I know." -- John Laffin, author of Hitler Warned Us: The Nazi's Plan for a Master Race

"Highly recommended." -- Choice

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What drove Adolf Hitler to do the abominable things he did? In this chilling new psychohistory, a distinguished psychotherapist with long experience in evaluating personality disorders examines Hitler's profoundly disturbed psyche. He then explains how Hitler made an entire nation help him advance a dark, deeply personal agenda. Dr. George Victor has drawn some surprising conclusions as he accounts for many of the most bizarre programs of the Third Reich. One of his most controversial findings is that Hitler had a plan to sterilize millions of ordinary Germans to ensure that, eventually, not a single drop of "Jewish blood" flowed in German veins. But even more amazing is Hitler's motivation for initiating the program. Dr. Victor also argues that many of Hitler's war decisions that contributed greatly to Germany's defeat achieved objectives of which military historians are unaware - objectives meant to satisfy Hitler's specific inner needs. This is the first book to show that implementation of the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions.

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