Author | Robert G. L. Waite |
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Language | English |
Subject | Adolf Hitler |
Publication date | 1977 |
Media type | |
LC Class | DD247.H5 |
The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler is a 1977 book by the historian Robert G. L. Waite. It was republished in 1993 by Da Capo Press of New York.
The title is taken from a passage in W. H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939":
- Accurate scholarship can
- Unearth the whole offence
- From Luther until now
- That has driven a culture mad,
- Find what occurred at Linz,
- What huge imago made
- A psychopathic God:
- I and the public know
- What all schoolchildren learn,
- Those to whom evil is done
- Do evil in return.
The title of Auden's poem refers to the date that Hitler's tanks rolled into Poland. This date is generally acknowledged as the beginning of World War II.