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 process for getting into the mind and psychological history of Hitler is still to this day the template by which many Nations profile and assess the behaviors of foreign leaders for Intelligence Agencies.
Just look this up and read about it. I'm not going to editorialize on this, it's so obvious for anyone who wants to understand where we are and what to do, that the parallels today between the Malignant Narcissist Personality Disorder which drove the Evil of Adolf Hitler, are analogous to that of our current White House occupant, without exaggeration. 
Where people are confused or ambivalent, is caused by the incompetence of History curriculums in Schools today. Most people equate Fascist Dictatorship or Nazism with Anti-Semitism. You don't have to be an Anti-Semite to be a Nazi. For Trump, Mexicans, Africans and Muslims are his Jews, his " Untermenschen". He doesn't need Concentration Camps ( even though he has them on the Border) or Gas Chambers to commit mass murder. He can do that by cutting the budget. That's how Nazis can kill off people they consider "useless eaters". Trump has not yet committed mass murder. He has undermined our Constitutional System, and caused the death of innocents with his border policies. However, if his plans for cannibalizing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and conducting various War scenarios with Iran, Mexico, and Venezuela are carried out,  he WILL commit mass murder unless he is defeated. 
I read this study 20 years ago. A lot of what I know about forecasting what will likely happen, and what people will do, I learned from the psychoanalytic methodology of Walter Langer. It's why I've been dead on in forecasting what Trump will do. Anyone who takes this seriously should be crapping themselves, and shelving everything aside to work on this.  I know there are institutional people who read my stuff. The clock is ticking.

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