Freud was right. Adolf Hitler, wrong.
Freud outlined “It (unconscious) is the truly psychic fundamental reality”. To understand it in context we have to look back starting from childhood, a critical, fragile and susceptible stage. He defended that childhood traumas have a tremendous effect on ourselves, as they are stored in our conscious then passing to our psychic unconscious side, once there they affect our actions along life, most of those actions are driven in a non-conscious way so, although we may think in rationality. On my own eyes, this has everything to do with Adolf Hitler and his actions.
Where did come that huge hatred feeling above the Jews?
It came from his past.
In fact, Adolf Hitler passed through difficult times after his mother death and He was convinced that the Jews were responsible not only for those times but also for Germany’s failure. I mean, you see, most of German successful men were Jews, they often occupied the most well-remunerated jobs while people like Hitler himself were starving, unemployed, and living in a war environment. I know it doesn’t explain what he did neither why he did, I’m not justifying his acts just trying to understand his mind. From Hitler point of view, the Jews were profiteers, “enemies amid ourselves”, responsible for the actual crisis so living in Germany, and they must be taken down. With no mercy and a huge sense of patriotism, nationalism, blinded by his convictions, he started his own mission against the communists, mostly Jews, with the purpose of purifying the Aryan Race, Anti-Semite vision, and his acts end up so roughly as you all know.
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else." Ernest Hemingway
What most surprises me was his awesome rhetoric, think a little about that, how a single man could implanted such thoughts in a so fertile way, I got stunning… He had legions of followers on his hands, what’s surprising, and I’m wondering if someday will exist any “Hitler” again… you may think insane! No way! The truth is, “difficult times demand difficult actions” as Hitler himself stated and this was the thought, full of wrongness, which contaminated millions of lives and destroyed another millions.
He was really straight as few of us are, didn’t accept betrayals neither small mistakes, cutting the evil's root, very cold in his actions. He often referred himself not as a leader but as the voice which would bring Germany together again but if you analyze between the lines the speeches you will see that behind all that “for Germany” was a huge feeling of “me” , “Why don’t you call me My Führer”. This is the side which almost everyone appeared to ignore.
In the end, Jews were just the scapegoat for an inner need to blame someone.
Humans are complex, our acts resulting from psychological, social and genetic interactions, our brain, still a mystery. The interesting thing is, his Alter Ego seems changed its parameters over who was applied certain moral concepts (see the text about Racism#), his cruelty was matchless, his personality, unique, his actions, difficult to understand.
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." Carl Jung
He was psychotic, with propensity to violence mostly because his father, with a huge lack of affection due his early mother death, breast cancer, a disease that even nowadays is difficult to deal than imagine in those time; He saw his mother dying slowly and he couldn’t do nothing about, so he felt powerless. Amid all that, he was rejected for many art schools, feeling frustrated. Then, after his mother dead, as was written above, he started to starving and so long, seeing rich Jews everywhere, coveting their richness, seeing Germany “pure blood” living as trash, giving their lives in war, trying to defend their country as few Jews did. I think this defines pretty much of his character.
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him." Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was a monster? Not so much as the people which listened him…
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad