S2 Ep 121. The conditions for the rise of Hitler and Nazism

What were the social, political, and psychological conditions for the rise of Nazism and the emergence of Adolph Hitler, a misfit, so as to have total control of one of most powerful industrial states in the world and to lead it to destruction? What is it in such a disturbed psyche – a borderline malignant narcissist - that is capable of leading a country, almost a civilization, to the apocalypse? 

This episode examines Ian Kershaw’s social and political understanding of the rise of Hitler and Nazism, and also explores the thinking of six psychoanalysts who lived during this period and wrote on this phenomena.