George Victor is the author of Hitler: The Pathology of Evil (Brassey's, Inc., 1998), which Library Journal called "fascinating and extremely lucid" and Choice cited as "highly recommended." He lives in West Orange, New Jersey. An expert in 20th century forces, John Laffin has written extensively on he Australian army as well as the conflict in the Middle East. His other title for Ospey in the Men-at-Arms series is MAA 123 The Australian Army at War 1899–1975.
"Any student of World War II knows that Adolf Hitler was a complex
and demon-ridden man. Victor, a Jewish psychotherapist dealing with
personality disorders, argues that Hitler's troubled pathology has
never been seriously studied because of fears that he might emerge
as a guiltless and even sympathetic victim of forces beyond his
control. In this painstaking analysis of Hitler's family background
and childhood, supported by exhaustive study of his written and
spoken utterances, the author makes a convincing case of how the
German leader came to be deeply disturbed and shows how these
findings manifested themselves in Hitler's social philosophy,
leadership style, and, eventually, his fateful policy decisions. .
. . This is a fascinating and extremely lucid journey into the mind
of one of the last century's most pivotal figures."
"Highly recommended."
"Hitler: The Pathology of Evil" is a serious book that merits
serious consideration. George Victor s interpretations of Hitler s
puzzling wartime decisions, for example, are unique."
"The research . . . is thorough, the analysis is deep, and the
resluts are of compelling interest . . . . Victor has drawn on
child development, experimental and social psychology,
psychoanalysis, sociology, and anthropology. His blending of these
social sciences with history is masterly, resulting in a deeper
penetration than any work I know."
"We know what Adolf Hitler did but still puzzle over why. Dr.
George Victor comes as close to providing the answer as we are ever
likely to get in this penetrating psychological profile of the Nazi
demigod."
A serious book that merits serious consideration. George Victor s
interpretations of Hitler s puzzling wartime decisions, for
example, are unique.
Highly recommended.
We know what Adolf Hitler did but still puzzle over why. Dr. George
Victor comes as close to providing the answer as we are ever likely
to get in this penetrating psychological profile. . . .
"Any student of World War II knows that Adolf Hitler was a complex
and demon-ridden man. Victor, a Jewish psychotherapist dealing with
personality disorders, argues that Hitler's troubled pathology has
never been seriously studied because of fears that he might emerge
as a guiltless and even sympathetic victim of forces beyond his
control. In this painstaking analysis of Hitler's family background
and childhood, supported by exhaustive study of his written and
spoken utterances, the author makes a convincing case of how the
German leader came to be deeply disturbed and shows how these
findings manifested themselves in Hitler's social philosophy,
leadership style, and, eventually, his fateful policy decisions. .
. . This is a fascinating and extremely lucid journey into the mind
of one of the last century's most pivotal figures."
"Highly recommended."
"Hitler: The Pathology of Evil" is a serious book that merits
serious consideration. George Victor s interpretations of Hitler s
puzzling wartime decisions, for example, are unique."
"The research . . . is thorough, the analysis is deep, and the
resluts are of compelling interest . . . . Victor has drawn on
child development, experimental and social psychology,
psychoanalysis, sociology, and anthropology. His blending of these
social sciences with history is masterly, resulting in a deeper
penetration than any work I know."
"We know what Adolf Hitler did but still puzzle over why. Dr.
George Victor comes as close to providing the answer as we are ever
likely to get in this penetrating psychological profile of the Nazi
demigod."
A serious book that merits serious consideration. George Victor s
interpretations of Hitler s puzzling wartime decisions, for
example, are unique.
Highly recommended.
We know what Adolf Hitler did but still puzzle over why. Dr. George
Victor comes as close to providing the answer as we are ever likely
to get in this penetrating psychological profile. . . .
It might seem there is nothing more to be learned about Hitler and the Holocaust, but Victor (Invisible Men: Faces of Alienation) provides a psychotherapist's analysis of the personality disorders he deems responsible for the Führer's ruthless destruction of the Jews. Reviewing Hitler's childhood, the author concludes that Hitler hated himself and his father because he believed his father to be part Jewish and the Jews to be evil and likely to take over the world. Furthermore, his father cruelly abused young Adolf, with the result that Hitler craved revenge against what he thought to be the racial source of such cruelty. War allowed him to project his personal problems as Germany's problems, which he believed arose from supposed Jewish influence and led to the defeat in WWI and the national humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. The author's psychoanalysis seeks to link many of Hitler's principal traits to the insecurity engendered by his upbringing by an abusive father and an overprotective mother: hypochondria, insomnia, procrastination, scapegoating, violence and ruthlessness. Hitler's obsession, Victor stresses, was so great that exterminating Jews superseded all else, including the attainment of military objectives; when forced to allocate scarce resources, the Nazi dictator devoted everything he could to advancing his obsession. Although using largely familiar data, Victor enables readers to view history from a new perspective while writing with a minimum of jargon. (Jan.)
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