If this is a topic that fascinates you, I'd suggest you read Alice Miller's, "For Your Own Good."[1] This has always seemed to me to be the most plausible expla

If this is a topic that fascinates you, I'd suggest you read Alice Miller's, "For Your Own Good."[1] This has always seemed to me to be the most plausible explanation for why Hitler and the German people acted in a way that seems so inexplicable. It's the only explanation I've seen that starts from the assumption that there wasn't anything fundamentally different about Hitler or the Germans of the time but that their shared psychosis was the result of well-understood psychological phenomena...that the extraordinary result derives from the extraordinary circumstances in which they lived the formative parts of their lives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#For_Your_Own_Good_.28Am_Anfang_war_Erziehung.2C_1980.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Fo...