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and wounje~ v~i de in childhood. The source of such
insults, ','Ie have In8.ny reaDons to b81ieve, was Hitler's
father, a coarse boastful man who ruled his wife
(t\enty-three years younger than himself) and his
children with tyrannical severity and injustice.
2. (a) "Sxplanation. - The hypothesis is
advanced, supported by much evidence, that as a boy
Bitler was severely shocked (as it ~ere, blinded)
by witnessing sexual lntercourse between his parents,
end his reaction to this trauma was to swear revenge,
to dream of himself as reestablishins the lost glory
of his Mother by oV8rco)1~ing and humilia ting his
fDther. The boy's relative weakness made thjs 8ction
impossible, and so the drive and passion of rev8n~e
was repressed and locked up within him under tension.
Only Inuch later ,~,hen a somewhat sirdlal'" stimulus
occurred - the subjugation and humiliation of his
motherland (Eitler's term for Germany) in 1918 -
was t~is energy of revenge rele~sed, after e short
period of shock and hysterical blindness.
This "ould eXDlein the fact that Hit13r exhibited
no energetiC ambitious c1rive of his oVln from the age
of 13 years (rhGn his father, the enemy, died) to the
age of 29 years (when a new enemy, the conquoror··