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i -155- beoones the cornerstone of hi a later character-structure and with its help ha 1B Able to integrate bis own behATior along • socially accapted lines. The Luportones of this first step In character development can scarcely be frrcf-ostinatdd. It la almost a pramquigite for a stable, secure and wall-integrated personality in later life* In Hitler's case, as ID almost all other neurotics of his type, this step rss not feasible, lufitaad of present-ng an iaaga of a contestant, harmonious, sociall^-adjuflt*d And admirable iodlTldual *h.ich the child can use as 4 guide and model, the father shows hladelf to baa mass of contradictiona* At tlmoa ha plays tie rol* of "a faithful civil servant* *ho respects hiA position and the society he sarvep, and danands thftt all other6 do lik&wisa* At such tiaes be is the soul of d lenity, propriety, atemnass and j^iBtic«» to thn out^i^a world he trieo to appear as a pillar of Society Tihoa all respect and 0U7. At tome, on the other hind, particularly he had b&an drinting, ha appaarfl the extct oppoait*. He 1A brutal, uoJUBt and inconfliderata# He has no reapact for anybody or anything. The world is all vrong awi am unfit plao* in which to live* At PUCh tinea he also plays the part of the bully and hl» wife and child ran wfao ar* unable to defend thcrnaelvap, th* dog eoiae in for hie share of hi3 sadiatie display. Voder such cireiuastaiiceB the child beacuneu aonfus«d Is finable to id*ntify hiaself with a olesj--ctft pattom ^tich ean use aa a guide for his own adjustoant. Hot only is this REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES