Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 15, 2024
No One Has Ever Been as Dangerous to America as Trump - It Can Happen Here
To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice for our democracy to rise or fall is in our hands...
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the American predecessor to the CIA and was formed during World War II. They hired a psychoanalyst, Dr. Walter C. Langer, to undertake an exhaustive, nearly-year-long analysis of the personality of Adolf Hitler, from his earliest influences through his later years as then-Führer and mass murderer.
Langer's profile of Hitler wasn't declassified until 1972, when much of it was published in a book titled The Mind of Adolf Hitler. As The New York Times explained that year:
"[Langer] saw Hitler as a weakling who masqueraded as a bully, Hitler the failure casting himself in the role, unconsciously for reasons of mental self-preservation, as Hitler the Fuehrer the superman.