Psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer and the Mental Study of Hitler

Dr. Walter C. Langer was an American psychoanalyst who was best known for writing a psychological study of Adolf Hitler. He wrote this secret pivotal study for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII. The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report became a best-seller in 1972. Dr. Langer’s profile, written in 1943, concluded that Hitler was “probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia”. Dr. Langer accurately predicted that as Germany began to lose the war, Hitler would “become more and more neurotic” and probably take his own life. When people published his work in the 70s, it…