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remember that in Hitler's co.se there wea not only the unusual succession of deaths of siblings, out thera na also the confltftnt ranaee of hia father's bmt&litj which helped to naka the fear more intense than In noat children* Thia danger could; easily be exaggerated In HLtl&r*fl Bind due to a sense of guilt concerning his feeling a toward* hia raspactlv parents and what h±& father might do to hi™ if he discovered hia secret. These feralin^s would t&nd to increase his fear of death at the flnne time Uiat they c&usad hit to reject his fathar. Both tendetictee vould serve to nourleh th4 belief that he was of divine origin and ma under its protection. I t ia my belief tb&t this baaic few of d*ath is a t i l l present and active in Hitler1 3 character at the present • •1 • • 1 UJM, As time goes on and he approaches the age when he night reasonably expect to die, tfaie infantile f&ar aaaorts itself more otrongly^ Ae a stature t intelligent nan he loiovfl that the lair of nature ia ouch that his physical self ia destined to dle» He lo Btlllnot able, howsTer, to accept the fact that hs as an individual, hi* psyche> will also die* I t la this, elenent in hie psychological a true tore whioh demonda that he bscooa immortal* Host people are able to taSfi* the jiting out of this fear of death throu^i religl&ua baliefa in life after deaths or through the feeling that a part of then, at least, will continue to go on living in their children. In Hitler's oaoa, bath of these aomal channel0 have been closed and h* REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES