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eoucluBion that Providence auat be protecting hJUa. Perhaps ths exemplary courage he displayed In carrying neasagea at thft f*otit waa duo to the feeling that sow kindly Fate was watching over bin. Throughout HEIN KWfPF we find this type of thinking. It was Fate that had hin born so close to the Gemma banter; it w*a Fate that Sent him to Vienna to auffor with the MftBS«8; it waa Fate that caused hiin to do nany things. Th* exp«rience ht reporte at tha ftont, wh*n a *oic* told him to pick lip his plats aiid bova to another section of th* trsneh - iuat in tinfl to eflc^pa a atall *hich killed all hie comrades, amet certa-Lnly have strenfthAned this belief to a vwrk*d degrea and paTad the way for hie vision Ifiter on# The Uqsalah Another iuTluanca may have helped to solidify this • syeten of belief* Among patients we very frequently fiai that children who ors spoiled at ftu early age and eetabllBh a strong bond irith their mother tend to qtoeatian their paternity* Eld»at children in particular are prone to &uch doubte and it is moat marked in cawe nhere the father is much older than ttaa mother* In Hitler's caA* the father was twenty^-thres years old*r, or ftlnoet twice th* age of the pother * Ju«t why this should be ifl not clear, from a psychological point of view* but in fluch caAas there ie a strong tendency to believe that L their, father ia not th&ir real father and to aioribe their birth tit BOOB kind of supernatural conception* Usually such . REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES