Again, Hitler

Since last year, no fewer than 13 prominent psychiatrists have publicly diagnosed Adolf Hitler (at long distance) as a paranoiac, have prophesied the Fuehrer's mental collapse. Although he can no longer claim to speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania will increase until his madness is so apparent that he must be isolated.

"There is ... a probable hysterical identification in subconscious fantasy with Frederick the Great and . . . Napoleon, which makes him appear, judged by modern standards, as an atavistic monster. . . . [He also has] Messianic feelings. This is a further development of his paranoid tendency, making his followers paranoid and producing collective paranoia. ... In Freud's view all paranoiacs were homosexual, but in Herr Hitler's case this, in recent years, apparently has been repressed, and today all manifestation of love is self-love and love of Germany."

Although Hitler is now on the borderline, concluded Dr. Brown, may stave off insanity for many a long speech, defeats in the field and the consequent necessity for making "terrible decisions" may push him over the edge into stark, staring madness, or even suicide.

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