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As [[Wilhelm Reich]] notes, his <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i> "was thought out during the German crisis years, 1930-33. It was written in 1933; the first edition appeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April of 1934, in Denmark" (1970b, p. xvii). A genuinely burning question lay at the heart of the book: How did Hitler succeed in imposing himself ? More specifically, how could a people of seventy million cultivated, hardworking individuals let themselves be seduced by a manifest psychopath? Even beyond the period when it...
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As [[Wilhelm Reich]] [[notes]], his <i>The Mass [[Psychology]] of [[Fascism]]</i> "was [[thought]] out during the [[German]] crisis years, 1930-33. It was written in 1933; the first edition appeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April of 1934, in Denmark" (1970b, p. xvii). A genuinely burning question lay at the heart of the book: How did [[Hitler]] succeed in imposing himself ? More specifically, how could a [[people]] of seventy million cultivated, hardworking individuals let themselves be seduced by a [[manifest]] psychopath? Even beyond the period when it...
  
  

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As Wilhelm Reich notes, his The Mass Psychology of Fascism "was thought out during the German crisis years, 1930-33. It was written in 1933; the first edition appeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April of 1934, in Denmark" (1970b, p. xvii). A genuinely burning question lay at the heart of the book: How did Hitler succeed in imposing himself ? More specifically, how could a people of seventy million cultivated, hardworking individuals let themselves be seduced by a manifest psychopath? Even beyond the period when it...