The Psychological Profile of Adolf Hitler

“He’s a fully-fledged masochist”. That’s what the CIA concluded after commissioning a group of psychologists to conduct a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler. The analysis was more than 1,000 pages long. Although they eventually reduced it to 229. Nevertheless, it was the first attempt in understanding the mind of one of the most devastating characters in modern history. Several leading figures of the time collaborated in the making of the report. The most significant were Dr. Henry Murray, American psychologist and Harvard professor and university academic Joseph MacCurdy. Psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer also contributed to the drawing up of the…