OSS Psychoanalysis Predicts Hitler's Collapse

During World War II, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services asked psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer and his team to produce a secret report on Adolf Hitler’s personality and predict his future behavior. In late 1943 or early 1944, they predicted that as the war turned against Germany, Hitler’s emotions would intensify, his angry outbursts would become more frequent, and his public appearances would grow rare because he could not face a critical audience. As Germany’s military situation collapsed, Hitler largely withdrew from mass rallies and appeared less often in public, while accounts from his inner circle described increasingly volatile rages.

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