‘Adolf Hitler had messiah complex’

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Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was described by British intelligence in 1942 as having a “messiah complex” and a God delusion that manifested itself in the “Jew phobia.”

British intelligence analysts had noticed signs of developing paranoia in Hitler’s speechmaking and also a growing preoccupation with what he called “the Jewish poison.”
“At the time that it was written, the tide was starting to turn against Germany,” said Dr Scott Anthony, who is working on the history of public relations at the University of Cambridge and tracked down the document. The analysis of Hitler’s state of mind was revealed with the uncovering of a secret report, previously unknown to historians, written in 1942. The document was found among a collection of papers belonging to the family of Mark Abrams, a social scientist who worked with the BBC’s Overseas Propaganda Analysis Unit and the Psychological Warfare Branch, during World War II. Marked “secret”, the analysis was commissioned by Abrams and was written by J.T. MacCurdy, a Cambridge academic working with him. The document analyses Hitler at a time when he seemed to contemplating chances of defeat. “In response Hitler began to turn his attentions to the German home front,” Dr Anthony said.
“This document shows that British Intelligence sensed this happening. MacCurdy recognised that, faced with external failure, the Nazi leader was focusing on a perceived ‘enemy within’ instead — namely the Jews. Given that we now know that the Final Solution was commencing, this makes for poignant reading.” The analysis covered a radio speech Hitler had given on April 26, 1942 “to reconstruct, if possible, what was in Hitler’s mind when he composed and delivered the speech. Its content would presumably reflect his morbid mental tendencies on the one hand and special knowledge available to him on the other.”
Just weeks before the speech, senior Nazis had set plans in motion for the Final Solution — an intensification of the mass extermination of Jews. Hitler’s speech betrayed “a man who is seriously contemplating the possibility of utter defeat,” the analysis said. “Hitler is caught up in a web of religious delusions. The Jews are the incarnation of evil, while he is the incarnation of the Spirit of Good. He is a god by whose sacrifice victory over evil may be achieved.”