Walter Langer's Legacy: The Man Who Unlocked the Mind of Adolf Hitler for US Intelligence
I'm currently re-reading a document declassified by the CIA in 1973, which was the compendium of research conducted under the auspices of the " Office of Strategic Services" (OSS), the Wartime Center of US Intelligence during WWII under the leadership of Col. William (Wild Bill) Donovan. In 1943, the OSS needed a Psychological profile conducted by our most qualified psychiatrists, into the mind of Adolf Hitler, in order to project into the near future, how Hitler would react and behave in the aftermath of the Allied Invasion of Europe which was being planned out. The man chosen to head this project was Dr. Walter Langer, of Harvard. You can read his Bio here. Without going into extreme detail, Langer accurately forecast, based on his qualified assessment of Hitler's particular psychopathology, everything that Hitler did from the beginning of his study, until the moment he shot himself in the mouth in his underground bunker. ( which Langer predicted in 1943!) His pro...