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Psychological Perspectives
A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought
Volume 64, 2021 - Issue 3: Cultural Images
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Any Similarities Are Purely Coincidental

Pages 409-412 | Published online: 07 Mar 2022
 

Abstract

Years before Fascism was to seize Germany, W.W. Crotch, a writer who generally covered cultural and literary subjects, found himself fascinated by a strange, odd fellow he had observed on the streets of Munich, a character he was to learn was named Adolf Hitler. When Hitler and his political party took control of the German government in 1933, Crotch filed a story with the New Statesman, recalling his earlier encounters with Hitler, now the new German Chancellor. Another observer who took note of this new aggressive leader was Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who warned the world of Hitler’s hidden personal and international ambitions. Closer to our own day, we have seen leaders and movements gravitating in similar directions. Draw conclusions as you will….

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Miles Beller

Miles Beller has been on the editorial board of Psychological Perspectives for nearly 40 years. He is currently writing a one-man play about media guru Marshall McLuhan.

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