Guardian - "Adolf Hitler's 'messiah complex' studied in secret British intelligence report" Deja Vu?

[TomCADem]

Interesting article about British wartime analysis of a Hitler speech in 1942 detects growing fear of defeat and consequent intensification of hatred for the Jewish people. Now, as we watch Trump melt down, the parallels are uncanny.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/04/hitler-messiah-complex-secret-british-intelligence-report

"The report's author recognised that, faced with external failure, the Nazi leader was focusing on a perceived 'enemy within' instead – namely the Jews. Given that we now know that the final solution was commencing, this makes for poignant reading."

Marked "Secret", the analysis was written by an academic called Joseph McCurdy and studied a radio speech Hitler gave on 26 April 1942. According to the report's opening lines, the aim was "to reconstruct, if possible, what was in Hitler's mind when he composed and delivered the speech".

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But McCurdy concluded that two other characteristics were also developing. He reported that Hitler had a tendency to lose heart when things were not going his way. This speech betrayed "a man who is seriously contemplating the possibility of utter defeat".

Most alarming, however, was Hitler's growing paranoia. McCurdy said he had a "messiah complex", believing he was leading a chosen people on a crusade against an evil incarnate in the Jews. The paper notes an extension of the "Jew phobia" and says that Hitler now saw them not just as a threat to Germany, but as a "universal diabolical agency".

[brush]

1. Hitler should have listened to this old saying — Don't start nothing and there won't be nothing.

Trump will soon find this out as well.