• Welcome to BookAndReader!

    We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!

    Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.

Serial killer novels?

I found some sources refuting your claims that Hitler was a sadist/masochist:

From Wikipedia:
In 1943, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) published "A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend". On page 138, Hitler is described as "an extreme masochist". It should be noted, however, that this conclusion is not without its detractors. In "Hitler and Psychohistory," Hans Gatzke argues that many of the report's conclusions are "based on nonexistent, unreliable, or misinterpreted evidence" which "historians would not accept ... as valid".[4] Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, in his book Explaining Hitler, actually made a point of tracking down the psychologists who contributed to this OSS report (but whom Langer did not directly acknowledge), and found that they denied ever making such diagnoses or claims on Hitler's paraphilias. According to his interviews, Rosenbaum found that much of the claims in the OSS report were apparently made up by its author, Langer. Rosenbaum suggested that Langer may have written such claims for entertainment value, noting that in the preface of the original report, Langer himself admitted that by the time he wrote it (1943), the Allies already considered the war against the Axis won, and as such, the report may not have had much strategic value.

Also from Wikipedia:
In his book Explaining Hitler, Rosenbaum sarcastically remarked that theories concerning Hitler's mental state and sexual activity shed more light on the theorists than on Hitler.

I'm sure that most would agree that Wikipedia is a reliable source ;)
 
Back
Top