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The Nazi Files: Chilling Case Studies of the Perverted Personalities Behind the Third Reich
The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Now author Paul Roland turns the tables with this brilliant new exposé - a fascinating psychological profile of the leading Nazis and their lesser-known associates.Examples • Adolf Hitler had 'terrible' table manners, gorged on cake in his bunker and Allied psychologists considered him a neurotic psychopath.• When Hermann Goering surrendered to the Americans, he had a gold-plated revolver and a stash of drugs in his luggage.• Franz Stangl loved his job so much (as commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka concentration camps) that he tried to make his places of work seem as normal as he could by planting flowers and shrubs everywhere and creating a fake railway station with fake painted clocks to welcome new arrivals.Accompanied by over 50 images, this concise yet revealing chronicle of Hitler's henchmen and their horrifying crimes is presented in a fresh and accessible way.
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257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2014
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October 10, 2021
This book offers some psychological summaries of well-known Nazi party leaders, including Hitler´s profile.
After reading Hitler's psychological interpretation, it is astonishing to see how an ignorant person with so many mental and personality problems came to power in a cultured country and was able to generate fanatical followers who obeyed him unconditionally.
In general, the summaries presented by the Author show people with complex personality disorders and behaviors with aberrant murderous tendencies, whose insatiable impulses for limitless power and the lack of moral restraints, result in individuals with strong sadomasochistic syndromes deprived of compassion for their fellow human beings.
From those summaries, one deducts that Hitler was a psychopath with a great ability to select psychopaths to occupy the leading Jobs in his government. He had an instinct to choose those who might be useful to him in dominating the world, regardless of the human lives and the economic and social costs that this entailed. He didn´t care how a task was done, but in its results.
A strange characteristic of the Nazi criminal leaders is their nagging sense of keeping everything meticulously orderly and clean and their scrupulous motivation to stay impeccably dressed.
Despite of using derogatory and mocking qualifiers when referring to the characters object of this book, it is clear that the Author corroborates the psychological, moral and perverse characteristics exposed by other authors in books dedicated to Nazism, where they affirm that it was a political party directed by mentally deranged criminals who formed, planned and ran a government of psychopaths who hated humanity with the apology of Aryan superiority.
Books like this one help to keep the memory of the atrocities committed during the 12 (1933-1945) years Nazi government lasted and that when remembering them allows to identify politicians with characteristics similar to the Nazi leaders in order to stop their race towards a government that can become similar to the one the world suffered during those 12 years.
After reading Hitler's psychological interpretation, it is astonishing to see how an ignorant person with so many mental and personality problems came to power in a cultured country and was able to generate fanatical followers who obeyed him unconditionally.
In general, the summaries presented by the Author show people with complex personality disorders and behaviors with aberrant murderous tendencies, whose insatiable impulses for limitless power and the lack of moral restraints, result in individuals with strong sadomasochistic syndromes deprived of compassion for their fellow human beings.
From those summaries, one deducts that Hitler was a psychopath with a great ability to select psychopaths to occupy the leading Jobs in his government. He had an instinct to choose those who might be useful to him in dominating the world, regardless of the human lives and the economic and social costs that this entailed. He didn´t care how a task was done, but in its results.
A strange characteristic of the Nazi criminal leaders is their nagging sense of keeping everything meticulously orderly and clean and their scrupulous motivation to stay impeccably dressed.
Despite of using derogatory and mocking qualifiers when referring to the characters object of this book, it is clear that the Author corroborates the psychological, moral and perverse characteristics exposed by other authors in books dedicated to Nazism, where they affirm that it was a political party directed by mentally deranged criminals who formed, planned and ran a government of psychopaths who hated humanity with the apology of Aryan superiority.
Books like this one help to keep the memory of the atrocities committed during the 12 (1933-1945) years Nazi government lasted and that when remembering them allows to identify politicians with characteristics similar to the Nazi leaders in order to stop their race towards a government that can become similar to the one the world suffered during those 12 years.
January 25, 2025
A history we must never carelessly forget. intriguing yet repulsive look into the minds of evil that formed some of the top ranks within the Nazi regime
A history we must never carelessly forget. intriguing yet repulsive look into the minds of evil that formed some of the top ranks within the Nazi regime. My grandfather was an American WWII veteran and the history of WWII has always highly interested me. It provides many important lessons we should learn about human beings and the nature of warfare under dictatorships and even the deeply embedded hate of their fellow human beings that willingly infected the minds of these loyal Nazi members/leaders to the sickening point they felt justified in committing outright human rights violations on a mass scale. This is history we should never forget and do everything in our power to assure it never happens again. Even the historical photos included within the book brought it to life even more and the reality of who these evil individuals/tyrants were. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
A history we must never carelessly forget. intriguing yet repulsive look into the minds of evil that formed some of the top ranks within the Nazi regime. My grandfather was an American WWII veteran and the history of WWII has always highly interested me. It provides many important lessons we should learn about human beings and the nature of warfare under dictatorships and even the deeply embedded hate of their fellow human beings that willingly infected the minds of these loyal Nazi members/leaders to the sickening point they felt justified in committing outright human rights violations on a mass scale. This is history we should never forget and do everything in our power to assure it never happens again. Even the historical photos included within the book brought it to life even more and the reality of who these evil individuals/tyrants were. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
January 22, 2018
World War II Story
This book was offered as a series of psychological theories about the best known Nazis. It is certainly not that, but it does have interesting stories about these men. I had never heard of Albert Goering, and reading the book was worth that.
This book was offered as a series of psychological theories about the best known Nazis. It is certainly not that, but it does have interesting stories about these men. I had never heard of Albert Goering, and reading the book was worth that.
January 24, 2022
Biographies of Top Nazis
Overview of many of the Nazis who were mostly tried at Nuremberg. Reads as slightly gossipy and not as well documented as I would have liked. Best part were the photographs. The text did include some interesting tidbits.
Overview of many of the Nazis who were mostly tried at Nuremberg. Reads as slightly gossipy and not as well documented as I would have liked. Best part were the photographs. The text did include some interesting tidbits.
August 27, 2023
A very brief insight into the minds of Hitler’s Third Reich peers. It’s not very deep or informative, but gives you a brief peek, through the looking glass of white common traits and characteristics made up this awful group of people.
November 19, 2023
A short summary of the lives of the most famous Nazis, but surprisingly missed out on certain important figures like Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Nicely illustrated and structured. Should serve as a good introduction to the topic, but not particularly detailed or thorough in its exhibition.
February 2, 2025
4.75⭐️
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