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especially architecture later, also called for much
constructiveness, which served to balance (operate
as a reaction formation to, and atonement for) the
primitive tendency to destroy.
Hitler has always
enjoyed the painting of ruined temples (just as he
has liked to contemplate the c.estruction of cit::es
inhabited by his enemies); but he has likewise tekon
pleasure in pa J.nting ir.::m8l1se ca8t~ ,=s
(lust as he has
occup!ed him~elf designing buildi~ga fG( ~he Third
Reich) •
A careful study of rr itle~'s w~itings an~ conduct
has convinced U3 tha t he i 2 not ent~~ely devrtsd to
destruction, as so many claim. In his naturn th0re
is a deep valid strain of creativeness (lacking,
to be sure, the necessary talent). His creativity
has been engaged in combining ele~ents for an ideology,
in organizing the National Socialist ,arty, and in
composing the alle-eory of his own life. He is the
author and leading aotor of a great drama o
Unlike other politiciana; Hl'cJ.'3;"
n8C CDl1duct8d
his life at certain seasons as a ROMe.nt~c
ar~~st
does, believing that it is the function of a nation's
first statesman to furnish creative ideas, new poliCies ,
and plans.