“Hitler is easy. Very easy.”
Skinheads may be easy; Hitler, on the other hand, was one of the most psychologically complex characters in recorded history, IMO.
You can argue the point forever, but I’m just not buying that he was ‘just your average skinhead.’
Or even ‘just your average’ anything.
Psychologically elementary arguments, I think, miss the mark completely.
Hilter’s pathology emerged with the increased use of amphetamines. He started his movement believing strongly in racial purity, though. It was all the rage in that epoch. We even had gaggles of those types in America. You’re no doubt familiar with Margaret Sanger. She was of the same mindset as Hitler, and that mindset was inveigling europe to the extent that rational people were welcoming the means to achieve ‘purity’.
As I said, read Spinrad. He has a remarkable grip on Hitler’s fever dreams. It’s really quite in step with the OSS “for the president’s eyes only” report. It was released a few years back, by the English. They didn’t feel bound by the classification.
Anyway, Spinrad’s character - Feric Jaggar - was so compelling that it formed the adopted identity for one of the most famed nazists of our day, Matthias Giwer.
The skinhead thing was a purely EU comment, nothing to do with report or book.
For more info on the report, ask Mesta. She read it long before declassified.