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''The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report'', published in 1972 by Basic Books, is based on a World War II report by psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer which probed the psychology of Adolf Hitler from the available information. The original report was prepared for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and submitted in late 1943 or early 1944;〔The date of actual submission of the report to the OSS is difficult to determine. Langer's reminiscence, contained in the introduction to the book, strongly implies that it was in the fall of 1943, around October 1. However, the 1969 letter from Professor Braddick, mentioned in the text, expressly refers to his review of the wartime report dated 1944.〕 it is officially entitled "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend". The report is one of two psychoanalytic reports prepared for the OSS during the war in an attempt to assess Hitler's personality; the other is "Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler" by the psychologist Henry A. Murray who also contributed to Langer's report. The report eventually became 1000 pages long. The book contains not only a version of Langer's original report but also a foreword by his brother, the historian William L. Langer who was Chief of Research and Analysis at the OSS during the war, an introduction by Langer himself, and an afterword by the psychoanalytic historian Robert G.L. Waite.〔Langer's rather amusing and self-effacing tale of how he came to be associated with Donovan and thereafter commissioned to head the Hitler study group – and how he came to write the report in a single draft that was delivered to OSS on the final day of Donovan's deadline – is found in his Introduction to ''The Mind of Adolf Hitler''. Donovan had a much simpler notion of what the report would look like. However, the psychoanalytic team conducted extensive research for months, following their scholarly and academic bent. Donovan, however, needed a quick result and eventually became exasperated at the delay and gave Langer an absolute deadline – much to Langer's chagrin, since the team had not started writing the report at that time. As a consequence, Langer produced a single draft and submitted it. It was not reviewed by any of his collaborators. ''The Mind of Hitler'' pp. 22-23.〕 The report is notable for making several correct predictions about Hitler's future: * As the war turns against him, his emotions will intensify and will have outbursts more frequently. His public appearances will become much rarer, because he's unable to face a critical audience. * There might be an assassination attempt on him by the German aristocracy, the Wehrmacht officers or Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, because of his superhuman self-confidence in his military judgment. * There will be no surrender, capitulation, or peace negotiations. The course he will follow will almost certainly be the road to ideological immortality, resulting in the greatest vengeance on a world he despises. * From what we know of his psychology, the most likely possibility is that he will commit suicide in the event of defeat. It's probably true he has an inordinate fear of death, but possibly being a psychopath he would undoubtedly weigh his options and perform the deed. ==History of the report== The wartime report was commissioned by the head of the OSS, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan. The research and investigation for it was done in collaboration with three other clinicians – Professor Henry A. Murray of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, Dr. Ernst Kris of the New School for Social Research, and Dr. Bertram D. Lewin of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute – as well as research associates〔.The three collaborators are identified on the title page of the wartime report, and in the online source ''paperlessarchives.com'', under the topic of ''Adolf Hitler – OSS and CIA Files''〕 Langer notes in his introduction to the book that one of the three essentially dropped out of the project because he was too busy with other work, but he gives no names. "He promised, however, to write down his views and conclusions and submit them ... Unfortunately, not a word was ever received from him" although he did apparently confirm to Langer by telephone that he agreed with the diagnosis of Hitler's perversion.〔''The Mind of Adolf Hitler'' p. 20.〕 Historian Hans W. Gatzke and others have suggested that Langer borrowed extensively from prior work by Murray without properly crediting him, such as his lurid sexual analysis and his prediction of suicide; Langer has disputed some of the claims although the texts show similarities.〔(Klara Hitler's Son: Reading the Langer Report on Hitler's Mind ) Spark, Clare L. Social Thought and Research, Volume 22, Number 1&2 (1999), pp. 113-137〕〔(Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray ) Forrest Glen Robinson, Harvard University Press, 1 Jan 1992. From Page 276 and in end Footnote.〕 In addition, similarities have been noted to perhaps the earliest published psychological profile of Hitler developed by Murray and influential psychologist Gordon Allport for Harvard seminars on 'Civilian Morale' (1941), intended to be distributed to private organisations throughout the US to prepare a consensus for war. The Harvard University Archives register stated that Murray started work on this profile in 1938 upon request from the Roosevelt administration.〔〔Murray, Henry A.. (Worksheets on Morale. Seminar in Psychological Problems of Morale. ) Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University, ?1942〕 The Langer report was classified as "Secret" by the OSS, but was eventually declassified in 1968.〔Title page of the wartime report appearing online in the Nizkor Project reproduction.〕 After receiving some encouragement from fellow scholars, particularly Professor Henderson Braddick of the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University〔Letter to Langer dated 12 March 1969〕 Langer decided to publish the report in book form. The original report is in the public domain and is available on the Internet on a number of sites.〔Walter C. Langer: (''A Psychologial Profile of Adolph Hitler. His Life and Legend'' ). The report in original typewritten format is available (online here ) via the Nizkor Project〕 Numerous substantial unexplained differences were noted by Gatzke, however, between the report as published in 1972 and separate copy of the 1943/33 report. Gatzke writes "Recent correspondence with the publisher...has revealed that the original (report ) manuscript was changed and edited several times by Dr. Langer and others, both in 1943 and again before publication.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mind of Adolf Hitler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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