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Hitler falls into the class of the medicine man, the mystic, the seer. He has about him a dreamy look. In fact all this is the most significant element about him. He is not a leader in the sense that Mussolini is. When Hitler speaks he tells the Germans nothing new, but simply what they want to hear. Especially he is the mirror of that inferiority complex which is so markedly a German characteristic.
One of the reasons for this is that the Germans are comparatively young as a nation. When at last they became a unified nation they found that the British and French had been nations long before them and that they were too late in the scramble for colonies, whereas the British and French possessed rich colonies and all that belongs to a fully matured nation. This made Germany jealous and resentful.
Out of it there came the World War, and when Germany lost this she became even more dominated by an inferiority complex. Just as the Jews of old looked for a Messiah who would deliver them, so the Germans have looked for their savior, and in Hitler they believe they have found him.
Hitler is simply what the Germans have made him. You cannot realize that too clearly. It is the key to understanding him and also the Germans themselves. He is like a mask, but there is nothing behind that mask.
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>>8896926
>inferiority complex
>German characteristic
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>>8897040
Not my words, but Carl Jung's. Contrast it to what's happened today and I think you'll find he was spot on.
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Which of Jung's writings is that from? Seems interesting
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>>8897040
He is literally correct. Who else but a people with a massive inferiority complex would buy into that herrenvolk schlock? How could the Germans be a master race when they had been made slaves of for so many centuries?
Hitler was messianic, national socialism was a messianic movement.
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>>8896926
How was he so DEVILISH?
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>>8897287
It's from an interview that was transcribed. He was asked to compare Hitler and Mussolini. There's a torrent out there with all of his collected works and interviews.
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>>8896926
Can anybody recommend a memoir by an ex-Nazi veteran explaining their experience in Germany before, during, and after the war? Reading Storm of Steel helped me to understand WWI from the ground level and I'd like to find similar insight into WWII.
Btw, I think Jung's assessment is interesting but greatly oversimplified. Also, he's not saying anything new, at least it's nothing I haven't heard before. It doesn't really add to my understanding.
I want to read something that tells me what it felt like to live through that time by someone who had a stake in the events that unfolded.
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Tells us more about Jung than of the truth.
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>>8897372
>by someone who had a stake in the events that unfolded.
Jung was heavily involved through helping many of his students annd colleagues come to safety and avoiding Nazi prosecution (many of them being Jews). I'm sure he's written on this topic elsewhere in more detail (probably from a psychoanalytical perspective), as the OP mentioned this was only an interview question. In fact, I think he might've touched on Nazi germany in "The Undiscovered Self".
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>>8896926
Jung is literally fucking projecting himself onto Hitler.
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>>8897444
Who hasn't
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