sh her for allowing her other children to die. As one might imagine, this had a negative effect on Adolph. One passage in the book explains how after long speeches or heavy exertion for Germany, he “would sink into blissful contentedness gorging himself with sweets” (p. 55). Through her breast-and-mouth incest Klara was using and abusing Adolph for her traumatic reliving. She must have felt how she was holding back his development in her protective, possessive, permissive embrace (p. 56). Perhaps this is the beginning of Hitler’s journey to becoming a dictator (the very term spells oral aggression raised to the highest power) (P.57). While recovering from the trauma of being gassed, he vowed to be the savior of Germany and deliver it from its own trauma. Binion makes several parallels between his mother and Germany that may have had their start during this time. By referring to Germany as the Motherland, Adolph correlated his mother’s breast cancer and eventual death with the downfall of Germany after WW I and the internal strife that is being perpetrated because of the Jews. Binion goes on to point out that Hitler stated in many speeches that “Germany must be everything to Germans” just like the way a mother is everything to a baby. Also, in several addresses, Hitler said that there must be more room for Germans to live. This “living space” could be equated with a mother’s womb. There are many Jewish references intertwined in Hitler’s unconscience mind. Klara Hitler died from breast cancer. Hitler may have gotten his contempt for the Jews while his mother was being treated for her cancer. Dr. Bloch, a Jew, was treating Klara. He wanted to give her morphine to make her comfortable, but Adolph insisted on iodoform treatment instead. The smell of iodoform reminded Hitler of the smell of the Zyklon B gas that he was hit with in WW I. I find it difficult to underst...
