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Hitler as the Robert Koch of Germany
Hitler's Ideology
Richard Koenigsberg

In his groundbreaking, Hitler's Ideology, Richard Koenigsberg presents his discovery that the Final Solution was generated based on Hitler's belief that he had identified Jews as pathogenic micro-organisms—cause of a "disease within the body politic" that could be cured by eliminating these pathogens from within the body politic. This finding has been confirmed by Robert Lifton—and many other researchers.

Called an "instant classic" and the "best critical analysis in English of Hitler's thought," this book is bedrock—required reading for research on Hitler, Nazism and the genocide of the Jews. Scholars often consult this book first.

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Hitler, July 10, 1941: "I feel I am like Robert Koch in politics. He discovered the bacillus and thereby ushered medical science onto new paths. I disocvered the Jew as the bacillus and fermenting agent of all social decomposition."

Hitler, February 22, 1942: "The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew."

March 24, 1882: Robert Koch announced the Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus—the cause of tuberculosis—to the Berlin Physiological Society.
Robert Koch presented his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis on March 24, 1882, leading to widespread adulation of Koch—and the development of "bacteriology"— whose basic message was that each disease was caused by a specific pathogen. If one could identify and isolate the pathogenic organism and destroy it—the disease could be cured.

Writing on the history of German medicine, Paul Weindling (1993) describes how bacteriologists became aligned with the state—through the use of military analogies. Koch described how "alien parasites" entered the body. Laboratory researchers were compared to soldiers: "Warrior against disease."

There was widespread adulation of Koch. Thousands of handkerchiefs on which his face was embroidered were sold. Just as the

Called an "instant classic" and the "best critical analysis in English of Hitler's thought," Hitler's Ideology is bedrock— required reading for research on Hitler, Nazism and the genocide of the Jews. Scholars often consult this book first.

A limited number of copies are available at
the special price of $7.76 (list, $25.00).
To order please click through to Amazon now.

Called an "instant classic" and the "best critical analysis in English of Hitler's thought," Hitler's Ideology is bedrock— required reading for research on Hitler, Nazism and the genocide of the Jews. Scholars often consult this book first.

A limited number of copies are available at
the special price of $7.76 (list, $25.00).
To order please click through to Amazon now.

bacterium causing tuberculosis had been isolated, so it was hoped that the germs of mental illness, criminality and feeble-mindedness could also be located.

In Table 6 of Hitler's Ideology, "The National Body is Diseased," Koenigsberg provides the data revealing Hitler's ideological fantasy. Hitler stated that the only way to cure diseased conditions is to "disclose their cause." He declared that it was necessary to remove the "Jewish bacteria infecting the life of peoples."

Most politicians "tinkered around on the German nation body," but blindly "ignored the national virus." Hitler presented himself as the politician who could "cure" the sickness by making clear the "causes of the disease." Just as Robert Koch had discovered the bacillus that caused tuberculosis, so Hitler believed he had discovered the Jewish bacillus—cause of Germany's disease.

Hitler's Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic Sociology

Richard A. Koenigsberg

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Tables
Abbreviations of Works Most Frequently Cited

PART ONE: IDEOLOGY AND PHANTASY

Introduction

Chapter I: Hitler's Ideology

  1. Destructive Forces in the National Body
  2. The Source of Destructive Forces
  3. The Struggle Against Submission
  4. The Union of Austria and Germany
  5. The Individual and the Nation
  6. Conclusions: the Psychological Meaning of Hitler's Ideology
Chapter II: The Death of Hitler's Mother
  1. The National Body = Hitler's Dying Mother
  2. The Denial of Death
  3. Reality and Unconscious Phantasy
  4. Summary and Conclusions

PART TWO: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Chapter III: Anti-Semitism

  1. The Maintenance of the "Goodness" of the German People
  2. "Separating out" the Jew
  3. Psychodynamics
Chapter IV: War
  1. War as a Struggle Against Death
  2. "Protecting the Rear"
  3. The Need for Territory
  4. Summary: Motives for War

PART THREE: THEORY

Chapter V: Ideology and Phantasy

Chapter VI: Nationalism

  1. Introduction
  2. The Nationalist Ideology
  3. The Denial of Separateness
  4. Serving the Country = Serving the Mother
  5. The Country as a Projection of Infantile Narcissism
  6. "Save the Country"
  7. The Maintenance of the "Goodness" of the Nation
  8. Summary and Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
Index