Profile of Adolf Hitler from 1942 uncovered

“This document shows that British intelligence sensed this happening.

“MacCurdy 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.”

Abrams thought that transcripts of Hitler’s broadcasts could be close-read for
propaganda and intelligence purposes, revealing hidden “latent content”
and subconscious insights into the enemy’s state of mind.

His work was fed directly into Allied counter-propaganda.

The newly re-aired analysis covered a radio speech Hitler gave on April 26,
1942.

“Its content would presumably reflect his morbid mental tendencies on the
one hand and special knowledge available to him on the other,” the
opening lines said.

An earlier report found three such tendencies, termed “shamanism”, “epilepsy”
and “paranoia”.

“Shamanism” referred to Hitler’s hysteria and compulsion to feed off
whipped-up crowds, which was in decline. MacCurdy’s report pointed to the “dull
flatness” of delivery in Hitler’s broadcast.

The other two were developing characteristics.

“Epilepsy” covered his cold and ruthless streak, combined with a
tendency to lose heart when ambitions failed. MacCurdy’s analysis found
Hitler’s speech showed him to be “a man who is seriously contemplating
the possibility of utter defeat”.

“Paranoia” was the third and most worrying tendency, exposed through
the dictator’s “Messiah complex”, in which Hitler thought he was
leading a chosen people on a crusade against evil incarnate in the Jews, the
paper said.

It notes an extension of the “Jew phobia” and says that Hitler now
saw Jews not just as a threat to Germany, but as a “universal
diabolical agency”.

It is now known that weeks before the speech, senior Nazis had set plans in
motion for the “final solution”: the attempted extermination of
the entire Jewish population.

“Hitler is caught up in a web of religious delusions,” MacCurdy
concluded.

“The Jews are the incarnation of evil, while he is the incarnation of the
spirit of good.

“He is a god by whose sacrifice victory over evil may be achieved. He
does not say this in so many words, but such a system of ideas would
rationalise what he does say that is otherwise obscure.”

The document has been added to an archive on Abrams’ work held at Cambridge
and is now available to researchers.

Source: agencies

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