20-09-2018, 10:07 AM
James Lateer Wrote:My most recent opinion about Hitler is this: Hitler was an Austrian and never stopped thinking like an Austrian. Austria came out just fine from World War II.
James Lateer
So did Germany James. Within a couple of decades it was the most prosperous nation in Europe whereas the United Kingdom and Russia, the two other key members of the Allies were still crippled - economically etc.
Where did their sudden "prosperity" come from, circa 1955 and thereafter, when West Germany was allowed by the Four Powers to become a sovereign state again?
Besides that, up to 40,000 of the very worst Nazis "escaped" (sic) - a better description would be "ushered to freedom" or "permitted to flee" imo - to safety, principally in Latin America but elsewhere too. Post WWII Argentina became a de facto Nazi enclave with Bormann, Hitler and countless others living a life of luxury there. Bormann, for example, lived the hogs life in a suite in one of the most luxurious hotels in Buenos Aires. Hitler, meanwhile, although having to move around from time, similarly enjoyed prosperity and likewise lived in another German owned hotel. Deservedly, if the evidence that has now emerged stands up - I believe it probably does - he died a lonely and neglected old man. His wife, Eva Braun (Hitler) left him with their two daughters and thereafter lived the high life in Buenos Aires. Bormann dropped him and took sole control of the humungous Nazi fortune - including its massive plunder.
And so it goes.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14