Hitler Among the Germans
Reviewed by Fritz Stern
An intriguing, carefully researched psychohistorical essay relating Hitler's several traumas (a Jewish doctor's "poisoning" of his mother followed by his own gas poisoning in World War I) to his anti-Semitism and to his hold on the German people. A serious, if somewhat dogmatic, work that needs to be assessed in the light of historical and psychological scholarship.

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