Hitler was a twisted individual in more ways than one, and Freud’s fraud of a “psychoanalysis” would have titillated rather than offended him, from everything that I’ve read upon the matter. Maybe a public rationalization along those lines was plausible, but the man himself would have been privately fascinated.
Hitler was a quarter Jewish himself. He idealized that which he was not, blonde haired, blue eyed and tall. He fancied himself an artist but was repeatedly rejected, took to hanging out in the beer halls as a result and fell in with radicals. He was born, baptized and raised a Catholic, but rejected that as an adult, rejected all Christian belief in fact, but did recognize the political usefulness of manipulating the majority Protestant population through their church.
He was confused, sexually ambiguous, embittered and alienated. He eventually found, though, that he had a gift of compelling speech. All the self hatred morphed into a racial and national “pride” drummed up out of some psychosexual nonsense that he, himself embraced, along with occult in the form of Teutonic paganism. Sounds rather like Freud on crack to me, as opposed to a rejection of it.
Therefore, that he jumped on the bandwagon of a “Christian Socialist Movement” at that time, much as he attempted to coopt and pervert the church for his own ends later after attaining power, is no surprise at all to those who have looked at his history and how he operated from early adulthood onward. Public piety, private perversion on a scale seldom seen.
He was a mess in every sense of the word, but apparently quite the amazing public speaker. Right place, right time, ruthless and amoral to the point of demonic.
Totally agree.
A few years ago I was visiting in Northern Germany (formerly East Germany) There was a huge family get together for the friend I was traveling with, many of the family were in their 80’s and 90’s.
It was absolutely astonishing as these old German women told their stories of how as children, they ran ran their homes along the Baltic Sea, family dispersed and never returned. It took over a year for the family to reunite. That was prior to WW I.
The old women were singing beautiful Christian hymns in German, when all of a sudden, their younger brother who was across the table from me started crying. He stated, “That was the hymn we sang as I was inducted into Hitler’s army. (He was on a Panzer tank crew, was captured by the Russians on May 8, 1945, while walking home from the front, sent to Siberia and allowed to leave Siberia in 1952 to return to Germany as a high ranking police officer(spy))
This was the first time I realized that Hitler sold the war to the German people as a Christian war. Sure opened my eyes!