One was the chief who was physically powerful, stronger than all his competitors, and another was the medicine man who was not strong in himself but was strong by reason of the power which the people projected into him. Thus we had the Emperor and the Pope. "Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. His body does not suggest strength. The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look. I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him in the Czechoslovakian crisis; there was in his eyes the look of a seer." I asked, "Why is it that Hitler who makes nearly every German fall down and worship him, produces next to no impression on any foreigner?" "Exactly," Dr. Jung assented. "Few foreigners respond at all, yet apparently every German in Germany does. It is because Hitler is the mirror of every German's unconscious, but of course he mirrors nothing from a non-German. "He is the loud-speaker which magnifies the inaudible whispers of the German soul until they can be heard by the German's conscious ear.

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"Few foreigners respond at all, yet apparently every German in Germany does."; "He is the loud-speaker which magnifies the inaudible whispers of the German soul until they can be heard by the German's conscious ear." - October 1938

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October 1938, #Zurich

I asked, "Why is it that Hitler who makes nearly every German fall down and worship him, produces next to no impression on any foreigner?" - October 1938.

#FallDownAndWorship

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That is what makes him powerful. Without the German people he would be nothing. It is literally true when he says that whatever he is able to do is only because he has the German people behind him, or, as he sometimes says, because he is Germany. So with his unconscious being the receptacle of the souls of seventy-eight million Germans, he is powerful, and with his unconscious perception of the true balance of political forces at home and in the world, he has so far been infallible. "That is why he makes political judgments which turn out to be right against the opinions of all his advisors and against the opinions of all foreign observers. When this happens it means only that the information gathered by his unconscious, and reaching his consciousness by means of his exceptional talent, has been more nearly correct than that of all others, German or foreign, who attempted to judge the situation and who reached conclusions different from his." I remarked that if Hitler's Voice continued to be always right, we were in for a very interesting period. This was five months before Hitler swallowed the whole of Czechoslovakia, and eleven months before he launched the Second World War by assaulting Poland. Dr. Jung gravely answered: "Yes, it seems that the German people are now convinced they have found their Messiah. In a way the position of the Germans is remarkably like that of the Jews of old. "Since their defeat in the World War the Germans have awaited a Messiah, a Savior. That is characteristic of people with an inferiority complex. The Jews got their inferiority complex from geographical and political factors. They lived in a part of the world which was a parade ground for conquerors from both sides, and after their return from their first exile to Babylon, when they were threatened with extinction by the Romans, they invented the solacing idea of a Messiah who was going to bring all the Jews together into a nation once more and save them.

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"Yes, it seems that the German people are now convinced they have found their Messiah." - year 1938

#PeopleAreNowConvinced

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