…famous psychotherapist and author. And she's 92 now, or 93. She's still writing books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from…

…books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he…

…all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm…

…to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm talking about hatred. I'm…

…famous psychotherapist and author. And she's 92 now, or 93. She's still writing books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from…

…books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he…

…all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm…

…to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm talking about hatred. I'm…

…I should tell you all my Jewish babies are crying. The infants don't know anything about Nazis and genocide or war or Hitler. They're picking up on the stresses of their parents. And, of course, my mother was an intensely stressed person, her husband…

…father was away in forced labor. The message I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They…

…I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They take everything personally. So when the bad…

…should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why do you use babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd like…

…of economic reparations for the First World War. It impoverished them. It immiserated them. And they had a lot of fear. So Hitler comes along and exploits that. And as Noam Chomsky once said, that it's, Nothing is easier than to make the American public…

…the individual level. The problem is You can't transpose. Now, you can talk about political leaders as being traumatized. I mean, Hitler was a very traumatized child. I can name you a whole bunch of Western political leaders that were very traumatized…

…going to make a difference What's more important peaceful justice You can't have one without the other I mean look if hit if Hitler had won the Second World War and and he had occupied and conquered Russia and was able to suppress Britain and dominate…

…say to global leaders who choose silence when Gaza is being devastated? You might've asked me what I would say to Adolf Hitler. What would I say to Adolf Hitler? I have nothing to say to Adolf Hitler. These people are blind, they're opportunistic, they're…

…Gaza is being devastated? You might've asked me what I would say to Adolf Hitler. What would I say to Adolf Hitler? I have nothing to say to Adolf Hitler. These people are blind, they're opportunistic, they're venal, they're hypocritical, they're liars,…

…I would say to Adolf Hitler. What would I say to Adolf Hitler? I have nothing to say to Adolf Hitler. These people are blind, they're opportunistic, they're venal, they're hypocritical, they're liars, they're cowardly. I'm speaking objectively because they…

…famous psychotherapist and author. And she's 92 now, or 93. She's still writing books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from…

…books. She says in one of her books that there's a Hitler in all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he…

…all of us. You don't have to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm…

…to be German to have a Hitler inside you. And being Jewish doesn't spare you from having Hitler inside you. And by Hitler, I don't mean all the things that he did. I'm talking about prejudice. I'm talking about insanity. I'm talking about hatred. I'm…

…the claim, been weaponized or has it to normalize mass murder? I mean, is self-defense a euphemism for impunity? So first of all, Hitler did not set out to murder all the Jews. He wanted to get rid of them. His original plan was to send them…

…identity that filled in a blank for all of us, which is the void at the center of North American Judaism post-World War II. Hitler didn't succeed in wiping out the Jews, but a big chasm was left at the heart of Jewish identity. Yiddish was wiped out.…

…as an infant. but it was only the latest of multiple, not the last, but at that time the latest of multiple genocides. And Hitler, as a matter of fact, took as some of his models the way the Americans had treated their indigenous people. So we have to…

…in some cases. I mean, Gary Levy talks about apartheid. He talks about genocide. And his parents were German Jews who escaped Hitler. So be done with this already. Drop this nonsense of anti-Semitism. when it comes to pointing out the truth about the…

…the identification so that the propaganda falls on fertile soil. I mean, the Jews needed to identify as victims. entitled victims, Hitler comes along and his propaganda fell on fertile soil. So the same thing today. So in France, the French invented liberty…

…yeah. Well, no, I agree. I agree. I don't dismiss... Look, even when it comes to Nazism, you can't dismiss the psychology of Hitler. Of course. But the psychology by itself would not have created it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I get the distinction and it's…

…and away from all the suffering. Finally, we're free. Finally, we're sovereign. Finally, we're together. The belonging. Zionism. You know, Hitler had his final solution to the Jewish question. Zionism is another solution to a assumed Jewish question, which is.…

…Some of them went there to escape the narrowness and chauvinism of their own country. Wow. I know friends who lived there. If Hitler had a grave, which he doesn't because they burned his body, but he'd be rolling in his grave at the gay Israelis who…

…I should tell you all my Jewish babies are crying. Now infants don't know anything about Nazis and genocide or war or Hitler. They're picking up on the stresses of their parents. And of course my mother was an intensely stressed person, her husband being…

…my Jewish babies are crying. Now, what is supposed to be going on? I mean, as infants, what do we know about Nazis, Hitler, genocide, Second World War? Nothing. What are we responding to? The stress of our mothers. And the stress of our mothers program…

…I should tell you all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why are Jewish babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd…

…She goes back to, um, Berghoff, I think, which is Hitler's lair in the Bavarian Alps. And she goes back there to forgive Hitler. Okay. And she says, not because it's okay what Hitler did, but because I didn't want to keep him prison in my heart…

…Hitler's lair in the Bavarian Alps. And she goes back there to forgive Hitler. Okay. And she says, not because it's okay what Hitler did, but because I didn't want to keep him prison in my heart anymore. So I'm not here to preach forgiveness, but I'm…

…reading, She goes back to Berghoff, I think, which is Hitler's lair in the Bavarian Alps, and she goes back there to forgive Hitler, okay? And she says, not because it's okay what Hitler did, but because I didn't want to keep him imprisoned in my heart…

…Hitler's lair in the Bavarian Alps, and she goes back there to forgive Hitler, okay? And she says, not because it's okay what Hitler did, but because I didn't want to keep him imprisoned in my heart anymore. So I'm not here to preach forgiveness, but…

…I will come to see him, but I should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now why? What do babies know about Hitler or genocide or war? Nothing. What we're picking up on is the stresses and the terrors and the depression of our mothers, and that…

…I looked at some of the most powerful people in history. I looked at Alexander the Great. I looked at Napoleon. I looked at Hitler. I looked at Genghis Khan. I looked at Stalin. It's very interesting when you look at these people. First of all, why did…

…Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian. Napoleon was a Corsican, not a Frenchman. Alexander was a Macedonian, not a Greek. And Hitler was an Austrian, not a German. So a real sense of insecurity and inferiority. And they needed power to feel okay in…

…I know that you also tell the story about Edith Egger, a psychologist. who I believe returns to the place of residence of Hitler. Yeah. And forgives Hitler. Yeah. I want to ask you, what role does forgiveness play within the process of healing? And where…

…tell the story about Edith Egger, a psychologist. who I believe returns to the place of residence of Hitler. Yeah. And forgives Hitler. Yeah. I want to ask you, what role does forgiveness play within the process of healing? And where are you within that…

…you know. conscious forgiveness in the sense that Edith Egger performed it, of going to Berghof in the Bavarian Alps and forgiving Hitler, by which she meant not that it's okay what he did, but that she releases the resentment for the past that she…

…installment of Transformers. Although she's a person who gets in trouble. She compared working with the director Bay to working for Hitler and that he fired Fox on orders of Steven Spielberg. she comes from a religious background we'll talk about that she's…

…father was away in forced labor. The message I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They…

…I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They take everything personally. So when the bad…

…should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why do you use babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd like…

…i'm looking to see the letter because um there was this letter about yeah honored he is Well, long before the emergence of Hitler, I made the cause of Zionism mine because through it I saw a means of correcting a flagrant wrong. The Jewish people alone…

…Oh, and when you look at the actual lives of the Nazi leaders, they were all very traumatized children, from Himmler to Hitler to Goering, you know. And their hearts had completely shut down. They completely shut down. So lack of moral sense is itself…

…father was away in forced labor. The message I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They…

…I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They take everything personally. So when the bad…

…should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why do you use babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd like…

…nobody wants to be called an anti-Semite. And the Zionists and the pro-Zionists exploit that to the hilt. So for example, Hitler, after Kristallnacht in Germany, there was a boycott of Jewish stores. So people say, if you boycott Israel, you're doing the…

…I should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, infants don't know anything about Nazis and genocide or war or Hitler. They're picking up on the stresses of their parents. And, of course, my mother was an intensely stressed person, her husband…

…says if something should be true, it is true. Oh, reality distortion field. Yeah, yeah. Now, you know, I write a biography of Hitler. Same thing. And Hitler had a horrible childhood. So when you say somebody is an asshole, no, I don't think anybody is…

…true, it is true. Oh, reality distortion field. Yeah, yeah. Now, you know, I write a biography of Hitler. Same thing. And Hitler had a horrible childhood. So when you say somebody is an asshole, no, I don't think anybody is that. People develop certain…

…how this pain was rooted in your abandonment as a child yes during world war ii and you wrote There comes a point when Hitler made me do it won't fly. That's the whole point. So what is the line between personal responsibility of you giving your wife…

…all these countries and killed all these people. For what? For power. You know, if you look at Napoleon, If you look at Hitler or Stalin, what's interesting about them is, you know, the Greeks don't like me saying this because the Greeks loved to claim…

…wasn't French. He was Corsican. He spoke French with a very pronounced Corsican accent. Stalin wasn't Russian. He was a Georgian. Hitler wasn't German. He was an Austrian. So these guys are all outsiders. Number one, they all tended to be rather short…

…it. You know, the gods end up... being annihilated, you know. Right. And destroying the world around them. Yeah. So, I mean, Hitler learned nothing at all. You know, maybe Wagner himself didn't learn his own lesson. I don't know. But it's certainly in…

…first genocide by the Germans, not by human beings. There's a book called Endless Holocausts about the American empire. And Hitler actually consciously looked to the American model of dealing with the indigenous people as he contemplated his racial policies.…

…the to the power that fascism then promised and dangled in front of the German people. I've read biographies of Hitler and Trump. Characterologically, there are some significant similarities. The difference was that Hitler was an actual ideologue. He believed…

…people. I've read biographies of Hitler and Trump. Characterologically, there are some significant similarities. The difference was that Hitler was an actual ideologue. He believed in stuff. Trump doesn't believe in anything. He's not an ideological fascist.…

…book called But Body Keeps the Score. He says that Trump is a poster boy for trauma. And you can see that. So was Hitler, by the way. So was Stalin, for that matter. And the difference, again, is that behind or underneath or buttressing or developed by…

…way. So was Stalin, for that matter. And the difference, again, is that behind or underneath or buttressing or developed by Hitler was a very coherent ideology. Totally false, but coherent. Trump doesn't have any ideology. He's an opportunist. We may say…

…father was away in forced labor. The message I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They…

…I got from the world is that the world didn't want me. Not because Hitler didn't want me. Because I didn't know Hitler. But my mother wasn't happy. And children are narcissists in the developmental sense. They take everything personally. So when the bad…

…should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why do you use babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd like…

…Jewish babies are crying. Now, what are you supposed to be going on? I mean, as infants, what do we know about Nazis, Hitler, genocide, Second World War? Nothing. What are we responding to? The stress of our mothers. And the stress of our mothers program…

…it's not so much that it's human nature that predicts certain behaviors, because there's so many different human behaviors. I mean, you can have a Hitler who tried to kill me when I was less than a year old. Or you can have a Jesus. Or you can have a…

…And I have them on my shelf as I'm looking at them. And in one of the books, she says, she actually ends up forgiving Hitler. And she says, we all have a Hitler inside of ourselves. It's so true. And my sister and I had a huge fight three weeks…

…I'm looking at them. And in one of the books, she says, she actually ends up forgiving Hitler. And she says, we all have a Hitler inside of ourselves. It's so true. And my sister and I had a huge fight three weeks ago. And that was Hitler. I was…

…we all have a Hitler inside of ourselves. It's so true. And my sister and I had a huge fight three weeks ago. And that was Hitler. I was Hitler. I was out of my mind. But he was abused. We know he was abused. And all of his commandants were all…

…a Hitler inside of ourselves. It's so true. And my sister and I had a huge fight three weeks ago. And that was Hitler. I was Hitler. I was out of my mind. But he was abused. We know he was abused. And all of his commandants were all abused. I grew…

…Yeah, and thank you for showing Step Inside the Circle on your Facebook page. I really appreciate that. Well, having said that, that inner Hitler that showed up for you with your sister, it can show up for me as well. So, you know, none of us are,…

…all my Jewish babies are crying. Now what do you think that was about? What did I as a two-month-old know about Nazis or Hitler or genocide? What was I reacting to? The stress of my mother. Infants pick up on the stress of their mothers. And the…

…I know you've met her and interviewed her. And in one of her books, she describes going to the Berghof in Bavarian Alps where Hitler used to have his lair and she went there to forgive Hitler. And... It doesn't mean that it was okay what he did. She…

…her books, she describes going to the Berghof in Bavarian Alps where Hitler used to have his lair and she went there to forgive Hitler. And... It doesn't mean that it was okay what he did. She did that to liberate herself. She said, I don't want to…

…to attain happiness and joy, to let this tension and this constriction control me. So the forgiveness wasn't making okay or pardoning Hitler for his sins. for all the evil that he perpetrated in the world, but it's her letting go of the emotions around…

…And what happens to it, once you pay attention to it, it actually dissipates. And so when Edith goes to the Berghof to forgive Hitler, she's just saying, I don't want to hold on to this stuff anymore. It's not okay what you did, but I don't wanna hold…

…to forgiveness. Because if you get curious about that other person as to why did they act that way? I'm not talking about Hitler here, I'm talking about anyone. But even with Hitler. Yeah, what were the conditions in that person's life that led to that…

…and she wrote a book called the choice about how she chose to travel to the Bavarian Alps and there she decided to forgive Adolf Hitler for what he had done. And you quote this passage. I'm just going to read it. So I stood on the side of Hitler's…

…I'm just going to read it. So I stood on the side of Hitler's former home and forgave him. This had nothing to do with Hitler. It was something I did for me. I was letting go, releasing that part of myself that had spent most of my life exerting…

…me. I was letting go, releasing that part of myself that had spent most of my life exerting mental and emotional energy to keep Hitler in chains. As long as I was holding on to that rage, I was in chains with him, locked in the damaging past, locked…

…from the same small town in Southern Slovakia. And what she's talking about there is not, she's not making it okay for Hitler to have murdered all those millions. That's not what she's talking about. She's talking about letting go of her own resentment…

…the time and I can expect rejection or abandonment, I can let go of that. And that's what Bessel meant. And when Edith forgave Hitler, she just let go of all the, all that meaning that she'd given in the past. And I think that's the essence of…

…conclusion it's not that there's a definable human nature, not that you can say, because I mean, look, Buddha was a human being, Hitler was a human being. One is full of compassion and love and giving, the other is full of greed and aggression and…

…healthy and those potentials will be realized. If those needs are frustrated, which they severely were in the case of, say, a Hitler, a terribly abused child, then what you get is the hatred and the rage and the murderous venom that characterized that…

…were her grandparents. Edith describes in one of her books that she goes back to the Berghof, which is in the Bavarian Alps, where Hitler lived, to forgive Hitler. Which is not to say to make it okay what he did, but to release him from the cage that…

…Edith describes in one of her books that she goes back to the Berghof, which is in the Bavarian Alps, where Hitler lived, to forgive Hitler. Which is not to say to make it okay what he did, but to release him from the cage that she kept inside her…

…that you can possibly apply. Because if you think of the existence of a Buddha or a Jesus or the existence of a Hitler or Stalin, I could give other names, more modern, but I'll leave modern politics aside to save people's tender prejudices, just to…

…just to protect people's tender prejudices. But the point is if a Buddha and a Jesus can be human beings and so can a Hitler and a Stalin, then what does that say about human nature? which is human nature. The fact is, neither is human nature. We…

…talk about human nature in a fixed, rigid sense. What we can talk about, though, is what creates a Stalin and what creates Hitler, what creates a Buddha, what creates a Jesus. We can talk about that. And when we talk about that, what we're really…

…I will come, but I should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now what is that all about? What did I know about Hitler or Nazis or genocide? Nothing. What did I know? I knew I was picking up the stress of my mother. Because as we know now,…

…I should tell you, all my Jewish babies are crying. Now, why are Jewish babies crying? Well, not because I know anything about Hitler or genocide, but because I'm picking up on my mother's stress. There's a quote here from one of my teachers that I'd…

…when you read the early history of the Nazis rise to power from 1933 to 1938 at least, Claudia Kunz writes about this, Hitler had to back off from going after the Jews rhetorically. You had Kristallnacht, you had the brown shirts and the Nuremberg laws.…

…of document? You can explain it. Well, back during World War II, Bonhoeffer and those folks wrote a document about standing up to Hitler as part of their faith. 1985, South Africa, there was a document about apartheid. 1992, there was one in the US about…

…live through the Third Reich. I mean, I was a baby during McCarthy. But it feels to me much more like, you know, Hitler than it does McCarthy. Anyway, I just think we're in a very devastating moment. This fascist movement uses the veneer of the…

…The Choice. And she actually described going to Berghof in Germany, which is Hitler's former residence. And she goes back to forgive Hitler. And she says, I'm not doing this for Hitler. I'm doing this to liberate myself. I don't want to keep him caged…

…to Berghof in Germany, which is Hitler's former residence. And she goes back to forgive Hitler. And she says, I'm not doing this for Hitler. I'm doing this to liberate myself. I don't want to keep him caged in my heart. I want to be free of that. Now,…

…gift. Maybe in the choice, she said. And I talked to her. I talked to her not long ago. And she said, we all have Hitler inside of us. And you know what? The thing is to love the Hitler inside of us. Because you said earlier, can you imagine the…

…not long ago. And she said, we all have Hitler inside of us. And you know what? The thing is to love the Hitler inside of us. Because you said earlier, can you imagine the pain that gave... You were talking about yourself, but being compassionate to…

…been incurred to create that kind of hardness and that kind of hatred and that kind of desperation that creates the Hitler inside all of us. You know, so compassion for everything. Compassion for everything. Which doesn't mean that you don't oppose things.…

…And a story she used to tell is that when she walked out of Auschwitz, she looked behind her and said to herself, Adolf Hitler got three years of my life. He will not get another day. Wow. Wow. And Edith Eggert talks about how she goes to Germany…

…of my life. He will not get another day. Wow. Wow. And Edith Eggert talks about how she goes to Germany and forgives Hitler. Not for his sake, but her own. She doesn't want to be imprisoned. There's a story about two Buddhist monks who were approaching…

…man. Which rings true to me. Does that ring true to you? I would say that the potential for both runs through every person. Hitler was a human being. I say this in the book. Jesus was a human being. At least, let's agree that in his earthly…

…the years, it's just uncovered what is going on. I've got a sibling with schizophrenia and he had all these hallucinations about Hitler. And then I did breathwork myself and all this Holocaust stuff came from nowhere. And now I see my children, different…

…all my Jewish babies are crying. Now what do you think that was about? What did I as a two-month-old know about Nazis or Hitler or genocide? What was I reacting to? The stress of my mother. Infants pick up on the stress of their mothers. And the…

…from behavior of trauma that you incurred being born during World War II And there comes a point when the story you're saying, Hitler made me do it, won't cut it anymore. And so the question is, for whatever reason, whatever reason our neuroses are here,…

…are too harsh. You can't say about the Israeli army that it's an army of slaughter worse than Genghis Khan or worse than Hitler. But these are powerful words. He's talking his emotion. It's an army of slaughter like the world has never seen. An army…

…if it succeeds, it gets worse and worse and worse. Like the Nazis did not plan to kill all the Jews, not in the beginning. Hitler didn't want to kill all the Jews. He didn't ever even talk about killing them. He wanted to send them out of Europe to…

…Stalingrad? Early 1943? The war was over. After Salingrad, Germany was never going to win the war. But the Germans still supported Hitler till the very end. They believed in him. They continued to. Even after their soldiers were killed and frozen to death…

…one of those countries had committed genocide. The Americans did it against the indigenous people. As a matter of fact, Hitler learned from the Americans about the extermination of the indigenous people. One of his inspirations was America. The Spanish, of…

…I got an email a few months ago for a moment called Bettina Goering. Now, Hermann Goering was the chief of the Luftwaffe under Hitler. Oh, my God, that's right. I was wondering where I knew that name. Yeah, and he was the head of the Gestapo. Just an…

…I got an email a few months ago for a moment called Bettina Goering. Now Herman Goering was the chief of the Luftwaffe under Hitler. Oh my God, that's right. I was wondering where I knew that name. Yeah, and he was the head of the Gestapo. Just an…

…I got an email a few months ago For a moment called Bettina Goering. Now Herman Goering was the chief of the Luftwaffe under Hitler. Oh my God, that's right. I was wondering where I knew that name. Yeah, and he was the head of the Gestapo. Just an…

…man, which rings true to me. Does that ring true to you? I would say that the potential for both runs through every person. Hitler was a human being. I say this in the book. Jesus was a human being. At least let's agree that in his earthly…