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•i • •-"-• .. e. J m . _ . „ t^V^-* barracks and engage then in political ^i^cuftejboiis. fiiofla who voiced opinions with a .Communistic flajrgr hi reported T^T"^ SO bia superior officers, liter, *hen tao offj»v3»ramere ts to trial, it ws hia job to take the witness etand and give the testijnony which would aend these conaradee to their death* Thta was R aev«ra trial for hie new character but he carried i t off in a brazen and unflinching manner* It must have given him trefiendcus satisfaction to find that h& actually could p3Jty this new role In cuch an admirable iftBhion. Hot long afterward 6 i t waa discovered that ha bad A teleut Tor oratory and he was rewftrd&d for his services by being promoted to inatructori The Hitler, ths etbryo Fuahrer, WAS beginning to pay divl4*nde, "Identification with the AgreSBor" la, at b&at, an • fora of adjustment* Tho indi-ridual alwaye h*fl a feeling that something is not Juflt (to i t should b«r Although he - • • ' • • • . ' L 1 . . ic not awTire af ltd orlgina. NevarthalesA, he feela in hia new role and la order to rid hipaelf of hie he muct prove to himaolf t over and ovar again, that he ia really the type of person he beli&vsa hitflBelf to be. The reoult ie a fioow-ball effect. Eircrj brutality must ba followed ty a greater brutality, every violeaca by a groater violence^ evory • atrocity by a greater atrocity• every gain In powar by a greater gain in poner, and ao on down the line* (Jnle&p this " T insecure id achieved suoceasfully* the individual begins to feal and doubts concerning: hlo borrowed character begin to ora«p in REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES