Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.