. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. The New York Times Book Review, ,1pnl 4, 1943. 1 Nazism, A Ger man Disease 18 OSRMANY INCURABLEf By Richard M. Brickner, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. %B. By GEORGS N. SH Uff TSR DR. BRICKNER is a com- petent psychiatrist. His purpose in this book is to discuss the conduct of the German people, viewed as more than mildly insane, and to suggest a remedy. In his opinion, Hitler is not an accident but a Channel through which national cha
. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. The New York Times Book Review, ,1pnl 4, 1943. 1 Nazism, A Ger man Disease 18 OSRMANY INCURABLEf By Richard M. Brickner, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. %B. By GEORGS N. SH Uff TSR DR. BRICKNER is a com- petent psychiatrist. His purpose in this book is to discuss the conduct of the German people, viewed as more than mildly insane, and to suggest a remedy. In his opinion, Hitler is not an accident but a Channel through which national character- istics are made manifest. It would be a mistake to focus all atten- tion upon the leader and to ignore the equally befuddled followers. For added together they are "; The term needs analysis, and Dr. Brickner de- scribes what he means in con- siderable detail, taking his illus- trations both from individual case- histories and from historical sources. All this makes absorb- ing reading. He does not make the mistake of pinning the label on every German. His contention is that during more than a Cen- tury the basic characteristics of German society have been path- ological, that the "trend" has been toward paranoia. This the outside world failed to realize (we are told), to its own undoing. Whereas countless ob- servers testified to the iron dis- cipline which mied in the Ger- man family, to social Conventions which gave free rein to the will to dominate, and to the popular- ity of ruthlessness among soldiers and statesmen, observers in non- paranoid countries did not under- stand the Situation and tried to deal with Hitler as if he were a normal human being. The fact that you cannot "appease" a para- noid was ignored until the fate- ful hour when an insatiable mad- man decreed the march into Po- land—not on his own initiative alone but with the approval of millions who had been formed by the Pan-German and other Propa- ganda of d
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