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• 1 r" ' I -££9- together with feelings of guilt n^vd-lt^ hia This is tha key to an und&ret&&dlng of-Hitler's actions Bine* the beginning of hie political activiti*»'to the preBdnt day. This effect has not escaped the attention of non-paychological observe re* Franc ois-Foncet^ for example t writes, in tb* Jfrencb Yellow Booki ChRJiCflJlor chafea ftgftifiat (ill disappointments with Indignant Far from conducing hit to moderation t obstacles irritate him. He i s aware of the enormous blunder which the anti^Jewiph per- secutions of last November h&vq proved to be; yet, by a contradiction which ie part of the dictator's pejchologlcal nalte-up, he ifl paid to b# preparing to enter upon a narcilefls struggle against thit Church and Catholic lap, Perbapa be thus wishes to wipo out the memory of past violence with freeh violence*•*" (p, 49) The mechanism fa ads on iteelf and am at continue to in to maintain iteelf, Since i t has no real foundations to supt-Kjrt it, the individual can never quite convince himself that he ie secure and need fear no longer. The result i s that he can brook no delays but must plunge ahead on hie mad career* Hitler'fi political oare«r shone thsee tendencies to a narked degree. Scci-cely had be affiliated himself with the group which had founded the Party than he connived to get control over it* Then followed & rapid expansion of. memberfihii the introduction of terror, a aeriee of broken promise*, col- lusione and betrayals, £a«ti.knrq£h| Attir.fresh g«ins and tie* power, but tha pace waa e t i l l fav^ tlsm to sA-^sfy bin. In be helieved himself to be strong enough to undertake a z-1 - REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES