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which has no vent in a "weak piping time of peace"
(unless he became an out~ight c~iminal), and the~efore
he has constantly pushed events toward war, o~
scapegoating.
2. (b) Significance of Revenge. - As a
result of the fact that resentment is the mainspring
of Hitle~ 's care~, it is fo~ever impossible to
hope fo~ any mercy o~ humane t~eatment from him.
His revengefulness can be satisfied only by the
extermination of his countless enemies.
3. Repression of Conscience, Compliance, Lova._
Unlike Goering and other associates, Hitler is no
healthy amoral brute. He is a hiv~ of secret nAurotiri
compunctions and feminine sentimentalities which have
had to be stubbornly rep~essed ever since he embarked
on his career of ruthless dominance and revenge
(instigated by ~eal or supposed insults). Every
new act of unusual cruelty, such as the purge of
1934, has been followed by a period of anxiety and
depletion, agitated dejection and nightm3res_, 1Nhich
can be interpreted only as the unconscious operation
of a bad conscience. Hitler wants nothing so much
as to arrive at the state where he can commit crimes
without guilt feelings; but despite his boasts of
having transcended Good and Evil this had not been