ABSTRACT
Before we close this study there is one question we need to consider, a question which is liable to become of vital importance when the devil-projections of war-time are revoked, and we find ourselves, once again, working side by side with our present enemies. What is Hitler's significance to us? What does this fanatical and ghost-ridden conqueror represent in our own psychology? The partisan atmosphere of war-time unavoidably fosters the conviction that we are right and the enemy wrong. Yet we are nearer the ultimate truth when we regard Hitler as a symptom of the disease, rather than its cause. We should also recognize the Hitler disease as a general infection that is liable to break out amongst us, albeit in a different form.
