The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-14
Doctors Views On Hitler

The London Daily Mail, copy OF which
Under date of November II has reached this
office, contains an article dealing with the
views of noted British psychologist on H1tlers
mental state. Although so much time has pass
&c since the Mail published the article and
Htler's habitat and condition has become an
increasing subject of speculation, the doctors
views are interesting even though they may
be passe.
The physician is Dr. William Brown, Wilde
Reader in Mental Philosophy and Director of
the Institute of Experimental Psychology in
Oxford University. He is reported to have OBJ
served Hitler at close range in Germany before
the war and on several occasions talked with
Dr. Oswald Bun1ke, the neurologst now believ
ed to be in charge of Hitler's psychological vel
fare Throughout the war he has been close
observer of the course of events as directed
by the Fuehrer and so has built up a case
history of his mental sickness. Some of Doctor
Browns conclusions have been published in
new edition of his book Psychology and Psy-
chotheropy."
Among them is that Hitler in a paranoic
sin the sense that he suffers from the repres-
sion of intense aggressveness; and he adds:
His agressiveness has not adequate scope and
is painful to him, and so he projects il
the people around him and considers that they
are aggressive towards himself. He gets the
feeling OF being prosecuted: he suffers from
persecution mania"
In fact, one can see how the Germany is
encircled' theory arose.
Moreover, Hitler is also hystercal in the
medical sense, and the combination Of these
two characteristics, the pa1anoc and the hys-
terical, explains why at times he seems to
be almost dual personality. =.
Il find definite evidence of hysterical disso-
citation in Hitler's own account of himself in
'Mein Kampf.'
Il am told from several sources that GER
tain German professor leading neurologist,
treated Hitler while he was lance corporal
in the army for hystercal blindness and trem-
What truth there is in this story cannot
say, but can say that Hitler's own description
of his temporary blindness at the time of the
armistice indicates it's hysterical nature Cat
least in parD.''
The good doctor adds:
II have read MEN Kampf through five
times in the original, with psychological in.
terest, in order to ascertain the nature of Hit.
lers mind, and I can honestly say that in that
book l can find no original contribution what.
ever to positive thought,
None OF the ideas are original, apart from
his ideas on Russia, and these have proved
to be completely mistaken.
Hitler has not developed. AS is shown con.
elusively by his speeches, his mind stays put
his speeches are simply repetitive. -
Doctor Browns second conclusion, in which
we may find the reason for Hitler's absence
from the news, is that Hitler must now be an.
preaching the final state to which paranoia
leads. Just as the melancholic type of lunatic
ultimately commits suicide, so the paranoic
type of lunatic (who thinks every mans hand
10 against him) becomes homicidal maniac
He must therefore be kept under physical
as well as political control.
IT this does not account for the Fuehrer's
silence the reason may lodge in the possibility
that Himmler has at last acquired the greater
power and is holding him in protective Gus,
tody"