The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler's Utopian Barbarism

Index

Index Adenauer, Konrad, 186 Allen, William Sheridan, 161 America, 210 antisemitism: in Der Sturmer, 54-55; "emotional:' 18; exterminationistl eliminationist, 189, 190; Fenichel's psychological theory, 55; "inverted," 177; historical, in Germany, 189; Hitler's writings, 46,48; in Mein Kampf, 22; "messianic," 101; Nazi plays, 57; "racially informed! grounded" 24; "rational," 18; "reason" 47; "redemptive," 22; religious, 25, 26; "scientific," 24,26,27,53,83; "unsentimental ," 24; in Viennese press, 46 art/aesthetics in Nazi Germany, 16267 ; Degenerate Art exhibition, 166; Great German Art exhibition , 166; speech at opening of House of German Art, 167 Aryans, 18,19,21,22,29,35,36, 41,62,65,84,135,144,170, 188,198,200 Augsburg speech, 133 Austria, 44,139, 181, 186 Austrian Christian Social Party, 25, 26 Bailey, George, 131-32 Beisel, David, 166, 193-94 Berlin Sportpalast speech, 52 Bessel, Richard, 33 Binion, Rudolph, 6,47, 100, 101, 102,117,118,123,129-30,131 Bismarck, Otto von, 32,125,131, 132 blood: as a central concept in Nazi racial doctrine (a blood cult), 62, 66-68,170, 171, 184, 198, 199, 200; ethnic German blood no longer necessary for German citizenship, 211; fantasy of Jews as vampires drinking Christian blood, 57; in Host-desecration libels, 63-64; as immortality, 62-63,67; magical qualities of blood,53,62,63,66,67-68, 170, 184, 198; pollution! poisoning ofblood,"43, 53, 62, 69, 111, 149; as sacrifice, 148, 154; and soil, 69; supposed Jewish ritual murder of Christian children for their blood, 54, 63; use by Richard Wagner in racist theorizing, 64-65 borderslboundaries/frontiers: Limes Germanicus, 186,187; their psychological meanings, 12528 ,155-56,165, 174,175,17778 , 180, 185-86, 195, 197, 198, 203,205-6 Bormann, Martin, 184 Bracher, Karl Dietrich, 160 Braun, Eva, 160 Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, 118, 119, 120 Chamberlain, Neville, 193 Charlemagne, 180, 183, 185, 186 Christians/Christianity, 20, 25, 36, 220 Index 53, 111-12; Christianity vs. tribal paganism, 175; destruction of Rome by Christianity according to Hitler, 182-84; Orthodox Christianity, 185 Churchill, Winston, 139 Craig, Gordon, 160 democracy: faults according to Hitler, 47, 72-73, 76, 138-39, 140; of Jewish origin, according to Hitler, 19,73; in the Weimar Republic, 208-9 Der Stamer, 54 Dusseldorf speech to Industry Club, 116 Eastern Europe, 210 East Gennany, 210 Eckart, Dietrich, 34, 183 energy: as vital in the Nazi state, 9, 76-77,83,84,109,149,150, 153,154,204 England/English people, 139 Erikson, Erik, 6 EuropelEuropeans, 108, 109, 142, 176, 186; role increasing the probability of World War II, 193-94 fake diaries of Hitler, 49 Falk, Avner, 125 fascism in Gennany, 158; ideology, 44,46 femininity of the masses, 11, 14,79, 85,95,180 Fenichel, OUo, 55,82, 127 Fest, Joachim, 47 final solution to the Jewish question, 69 Foch, Marshall, 117 folkish state/people (Volksgemeinschaft), 11, 19,24, 26,27,28,29,68,72,100,105, 108,109,137-68, 171,183, 188,202,203; as infantile perpetuum mobile machine, 203-4 Ford, Henry, 94 France, 44, 181, 193,210; "Jewishdominated ," 39; Jews, 101; middle-class, 58; "negrified," 39 Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-1850, 132 Freud, Anna: theoretical concepts regarding trauma, 127-28 Freud, Sigmund, 13; "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," 13; book on group psychology, 44, 77, 92; concept of the "uncanny," 55, 56,121,197; psychoanalytic postulates, 2; repetition compulsion , 56; theoretical concepts regarding unresolved traumas, 125-27; theory of sublimation, 32 Friedlander, Saul, 158, 159 Fromm, Eric, 114 Fuhrer, 49, 74, 75, 103, 110, 124, 152, 155, 159, 160, 167, 168, 173, 188 Gemlich, Adolf, 17 genocide/genocidal potential, 14, 136,155,173,175-76,189-93, 201,204,208 German group psychology, 8, 9; "almost factor," 131-32, 209; as "brilliant dummies," 81, 82, 173,199; damage to Gennan identity because of the Nazi period, 176-77; national fantasies about the Holy Roman Empire of the Gennan Nation, 182, 183; no longer "brilliant dummies," 211; passion for absolutes, 194-95 Gennan romanticism, 159; apocalyptic forces, 159; messianic forces, 159 German tribes, ancient, 53, 175; Goths, 181 German Workers' Party, 10 Gilbert, Martin, 135 Gleichschaltung (coordination), 16062 Goebbels, Joseph, 134, 135 Goethe's concept of two souls in one breast, 174 Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah, 189; interest in his book by contemporary Germans, 211 Greater Germany, 187 Gregor, A. James, 44--45, 77 Grimm brothers fairy tales, 9 group development...