"I think that Hitler was abnormal in his sexual needs. That is, he needed too little from the opposite sex. He considered women as objects of beauty, and he often talked with affection about his own mother. I obtained the impression that he disliked his father, because he never mentioned him. But it is a bad thing if a man has too little Eros in him. It makes him insensitive, and probably leads to cruelty. Freud, Sigmund Freud, the last of the great German psychiatrists, who died in England, pointed out the relationship between frustrated love and cruelty. I believe it is what you psychiatrists term sadism. I'm convinced that a man who does not need the love of a woman, and thinks he can forgo it, or who does forgo it, can turn to cruelty and sadism as a substitute."
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To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
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Hans Frank
1900 – 1946
deutscher Politiker der [[w:DAP|DAP]] und [[w:NSDAP|NSDAP]], Jurist, Generalgouverneur der besetzten polnischen Gebiete im Zweiten Weltkrieg, verurteilt im [[w:Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher|Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher]]
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