Adolf Hitler

Hitler's failures in school caused him to hate intellectuals. After dropping out of high school and twice failing the admission examinations for the academy of art, he lived by doing odd jobs. Most of his time was spent in political argument. At the start of World War I, he joined the Bavarian Army and rose no high than corporal. After the failure of what is known as the "Beer Hall Putsch" in 1923, he was imprisoned for his political activities, and, while in prison, he dictated his book Mein Kampf, which, according to Langer in The Mind of Adolf Hitler, expresses his brutal opportunism, his contempt for people, and his fanaticism (Langer, 1973, p. 143).

Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933, and by March 1933, he was in absolute power. During World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Service

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virgin" (p. 322). Payne (1973) believes that Hitler's inability to sustain a healthy sexual relationship stemmed from his repression of healthy desire. He quotes one of Hitler's roommates, a man named Kubizek, who maintained, "he never masturbated, detested salacious jokes, and spoke about physical purity as though he believed in some higher law that demanded purity in men and women. A hermit by deliberate choice, Adolf despised homosexuals as much as he despised the women he sometimes encountered at the opera who indicated that they would welcome his advances" (p. 72). His sublimation of sexual desire appears to have had negative consequences both for himself and for those around him. For her faithfulness to her near-eunuch, Eva Braun got to die in the bunker. In cultural/social deviance terms, Hitler deviated from the norm with regard to his ability to sustain non-intimate relationships as well. Described by acquaintances as a "lonely man, [making] friends with difficulty, and surviving [only] by a series of miracles, he had no talent for survival" (Payne, 1973, p. 91). In his early years he became estranged from his parents while living in the city, painting postcards for a meager survival, and he frequently thought of
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