Topic: OSS Study: Hitler Remarkably Like Someone You Know
"...What is believed to be the first psychological profile of Hitler
commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor to
the Central Intelligence Agency, was posted this month (3/05) by Cornell
University Law Library on its Web site..."
Here's an excerpt (ed.):
"...but in Hitler the trend is so intense and the commonly balancing
forces (affection, conscience, self-criticism, humor) are so weak
that we are justified in speaking in speaking (sic) of megalomania
(delusions of omnipotence), despite the fact that the man has
succeeded in getting a large proportion of the German people to
believe that he is superior: (i) that he has been divinely appointed
to lead them to power and glory, and (ii) that he is *never wrong* and
hence must be followed with blind obedience, come what may..."
SOUND LIKE ANYONE YOU KNOW?
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/librar … an/hitler/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/science/31hitler.html
*underlined in original document
