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The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler's Utopian Barbarism
The Roots of Nazi Psychology Hitler's Utopian Barbarism Author:Jay Y. Gonen No amount of patient scholarly probing of Hitlerism can render this grim piece of political pathology intelligible without empathic insight into the deeper workings of mass psychology. Gonen brings just such insight to this task and will leave reader after reader with the sense of a mystery solved.Rudoph Binion, author of Hitle... more »r among the Germans By combining scholarly excellence with a reading style that makes it accessible to the lay public, Gonen has written what could become a bestseller.Lloyd deMause In a provocative work, Jay Gonen argues that Adolf Hitler reflected the psyche of many Germans of his time. He describes Hitler as similar to any charismatic leader, an expert scanner of the Zeitgeist who had an uncanny ability to read the masses correctly and guide them with new ideas that were in truth borrowed from the masses themselves. By focusing on the role of ideologies in group psychology, Gonen illustrates the ways in which Hitlers notions were interwoven with the general fabric of German culture in the years following World War I. He sheds light on the underlying dynamics of the German response to the humiliation and defeat of World War I in order to tease out the psychological underpinnings of Nazi Germanys desire to expand its living space and exterminate Jews.« less