HIEU 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Franz Stangl, Rudolf Hess, Otto Eckmann
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Those from traditional elites who joyfully or regrettably participated and the poor and working class who didn"t vote nazi. Some psychologists say that leading nazis were psychopaths or sadists. Others who examined them after the war argued that they were mentally healthy, but that their society socialized them to defer to authority. Lieutenant in the navy by the late 1920s. Got into the ss in the 30s through his girlfriend. Rumors about his jewish ancestry never totally quieted. Mystic, and thought of hitler as a messiah. Two reasons why he may have done it. Convince the allies to make peace with germany. Sentenced at the nuremberg tribunal and doesn"t repent. He dies in prison by suicide as an old man, refusing to sign clemency papers. His son asked for a draft exemption in protest of the fact that his father was imprisoned. Neo nazis try to gather at his grave every year. No record of him being an anti semite.
