What Made Hitler a Psychopath?
What made Hitler into a psychopath?
Hitler wasn’t a psychopath. Usually one of the first signs of a psychopath is cruelty to animals. Hitler was a vegetarian for both health and religious reasons.
“The FĂ¼hrer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian. He views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race. This can be seen in the similarity of their religious rites. Both (Judaism and Christianity) have no point of contact to the animal element, and thus, in the end they will be destroyed. The Fuhrer is a convinced vegetarian on principle.”
— Goebbels Diaries, 29 December 1939
"Do you know that your FĂ¼hrer is a vegetarian, and that he does not eat meat because of his general attitude toward life and his love for the world of animals? Do you know that your FĂ¼hrer is an exemplary friend of animals, and even as a chancellor, he is not separated from the animals he has kept for years? The FĂ¼hrer is an ardent opponent of any torture of animals, in particular vivisection, and has declared to terminate those conditions...thus fulfilling his role as the saviour of animals, from continuous and nameless torments and pain."
"The preoccupation with animal protection in Nazi Germany was evident in other social institutions and continued almost until the end of World War II. In 1934, the new government hosted an international conference on animal protection in Berlin. Over the speaker's podium, surrounded by enormous swastikas, were the words "Entire epochs of love will be needed to repay animals for their value and service" (Meyer 1975).
In 1936 the German Society for Animal Psychology was founded, and in 1938 animal protection was accepted as a subject to be studied in German public schools and universities."
"In 1942, when things were going badly for Germany on the eastern front against the Russians, a conversation took place between Hitler and Magda's companion, Eleonore Quandt – her former sister-in-law – that may surprise some readers of this review. It was an evening get-together to celebrate Goebbels' birthday, but the atmosphere at the gathering was gloomy. Eleonore had entered the room and had draped a silver fox fur over the arm of her chair, next to Hitler. Hitler looked at it and said, Tell me dear lady, do you realize that innocent animals are killed simply that you may wear this fur?
Ello Quandt replied that she did not find the fate of foxes excessively tragic. Hitler thought for a few seconds and replied. That's just what's wrong, that we no longer understand the tragedy of things. If only everybody realized that the destruction of only one life cannot be vindicated, so many things would be different and better."
“Among all civilized nations, Germany is thus the first to put an end to the cultural shame of vivisection! The New Germany not only frees man from the curse of materialism, sadism, and cultural Bolshevism, but gives the cruelly persecuted, tortured, and until now, wholly defenseless animals their rights. Animal friends and anti-vivisectionists of all states will joyfully welcome this action of the National Socialist government of the New Germany!
Buddha, the Great loving spirit of the East, says: “He who is kind-hearted to animals, heaven will protect!” May this blessing fulfill the leaders of the New Germany, who have done great things for animals”
The psychoanalyst Carl Jung famously analysed Hitler’s personality. He concluded that Hitler was possessed by his anima - his feminine side. While Hitler was rational and intellectual, he was also dominated by his feelings and emotions. Psychopaths are not dominated by emotions! Nor do psychopaths show any compassion toward animals.
Dominant Ni:Adolf Hitler was full of ambition from the time that he was young. He aspired to become an artist, much to his parents displeasure and pur...
Originally Answered: When did Hitler become a psychopath?
Adolf Hitler was a psychopath for most of his life, issues with his father, his failure at becoming a famous artist (painter), the death of his mother, and his psychotic beliefs contributed to his mental state. From the mid 1930’s until his suicide In May 1945 Hitler was pumped up with amphetamines, opiates, cocaine, and methamphetamine along with a multitude of other drugs. By wartime (1939) Hitler had his personal physician Theodor Morell wake him up with an amphetamine (or similar) injection and had him be on the ready with injections of “vitamins” as Morell called them as well as a large supply of pills and powders. These “vitamins” were the most powerful opiate painkillers, methamphetamine, cocaine, and amphetamine to name a few.
Hitler’s psychosis was very real for most of his entire adult life and was exacerbated by a yes man quack doctor who would give Hitler anything he wanted no matter the strength of the treatment or consequence as long a he stayed alive. Issues as a child and his mothers death led to erratic behavior further exacerbated by WWI and his ordeal with temporary blindness, during his rise to power he was a maniac who knew how and when to turn on the bravado, once he had the entire Nazi party under his thumb he became a hopeless drug addict. He was a disillusioned psychopath and his incompetence as a leader inadvertently helped the Allies decide not to assassinate him during the war as they believe his incompetence was so great that he alone would cost the Germans the war and the Allies were correct.
Adolf Hitler with his personal physician Theodor Morell (Left)
22 October 2018
Question: "What made Hitler into a psychopath?"
What does it matter?
Psychopathy is not a medical condition, it is a description of personality and behavior. He had a cruel and violent father, a difficult life, grew up where Jew-hating was endemic for centuries (Europe in general, for so long ruled by persons who imposed Roman Catholic and other Christian state religion), and was by any reasonable modern standard uneducated in human biology, genetics, and this history of mass human behavior.
He was socialized in an authoritarian religion (Roman Catholic) with bizarre ideas about the way relationships between males and females must be to be holy, and women’s subservient place in the hierarchy.
He fought in a war for emotional reasons, not necessity, probably more of a way to make a living than anything else. It was difficult and brutal and came to be frustrated from having been on the losing side.
He learned that self-worth and social recognition (in his social cognitive schema based on personal experience and limited knowledge) comes from how many designated enemy soldiers one kills or how many civilians one exterminates (he was aware of the Armenian genocide, for example, and cited it as evidence that a similar tactic could be used with impunity on Jews and others).
That may have had something to do with his attitude and psychotic beliefs.
It is not the case that not all psychopaths are particularly violent people, just that they have no remorse if they happen to hurt other people in order to achieve their own self-serving goals.
In the case of Adolf Hitler, violence was a model of behavior that was far more real than what people nowadays view as video entertainment, or at least alleged to be entertainment, but which they regard as fantasy.
Although there are very many descriptions of psychopathy, some of them are based on studies of violent, incarcerated persons, where one could expect a large percentage of psychopaths.
In the psychiatric business it has never been uncommon to find psychopaths. Perhaps that is just in the nature of the industry, which has change quite a bit since mid 20th century but the situation about psychopathy has not.
To wit:
"AntĂ³nio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955)...
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"In 1939, Moniz was shot multiple times by a schizophrenic patient and subsequently confined to a wheelchair. He continued in private practice until 1955. Moniz died from an internal hemorrhage on December 13, 1955."
I do not know if the man who shot him was a psychopath or not. I know that Moniz had not yet had the opportunity to insult the man’s brain with a scalpel for profit before he shot Moniz.
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Left: Antonio Egas Moniz. Right: Walter Jackson Freeman II.
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