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The book discusses Adolf Hitler's sexuality. Machtan argues that Hitler was a closeted homosexual. Among the evidence, he cites the allegedly homoerotic nature of his friendship with August Kubizek during Hitler's youth in Vienna. The book was not well received by historians, who dispute Machtan's conclusion that Hitler was homosexual. [1]
In the book, Kershaw explores a concept he calls the "Hitler Myth" that describes two key points in Nazi ideology that depict Adolf Hitler as a demagogue figure and as a mighty defender. [1] [2] In the demagogue aspect Hitler is presented as a figure that embodies and shapes the German people, giving him a mandate to rule.
The investigation is focused not so much on Hitler's personal psychopathology, but rather on a description of the "interaction" between individual and collective factors that accounted for the overall dynamics of the Hitler madness. The book specifies the interplay between Hitler's leader role (which was charged with psychotic symptoms) on the ...
Lothar Machtan authorized his book The Hidden Hitler to be scanned almost in full by Amazon.com to facilitate search referencing. "Review: The Hidden Hitler", All Readers; Walter Reich (16 December 2001). "All the Führer's Men". The New York Times. Literature by and about Lothar Machtan in the German National Library catalogue
The wartime report was commissioned by the head of the OSS, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan.The research and investigation for it was done in collaboration with three other clinicians – Professor Henry A. Murray of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, Dr. Ernst Kris of the New School for Social Research, and Dr. Bertram D. Lewin of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute – as well as research ...
The Hitlers Zweites Buch (German: [ˈtsvaɪ̯təs buːχ], "Second Book"), published in English as Hitler's Secret Book and later as Hitler's Second Book, [1] is an unedited transcript of Adolf Hitler's thoughts on foreign policy written in 1928; it was written after Mein Kampf and was not published in his lifetime.
It was one of two psychoanalytic reports prepared for the OSS on Nazi Germany leader Adolf (sometimes spelled "Adolph") Hitler; the other was "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend" (later published in book form under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler). Murray's report is dated October 1943.
Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality is a documentary film based on the research of German Professor Lothar Machtan for his 2001 book The Hidden Hitler that claimed Adolf Hitler was a homosexual. [1]