Walter c langer biography

Walter Charles Langer (February 5, 1899 – July 4, 1981).
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Langer received his Ph.D.
Walter Charles Langer (February 5 1899 – July 4 1981) was a Cambridge, Massachusetts psychoanalyst best known for his role in preparing a psychological.

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At the height of the Second World War, Allied intelligence services grew increasingly interested in the personal life of the German Führer, Adolf Hitler. The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) spent months developing an elaborate series of plans to assassinate him. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which evolved into the CIA, had similar thoughts, and commissioned Harvard psychologist Walter C. Langer to do a full psychological profile of the German dictator. This show more short book is the result of his efforts.

Langer and his team worked over the course of five months, interviewed people who knew Hitler, read everything they could get their hands on, producing in the end this remarkable work. It should be said at the outset that it is a deeply flawed work, as they were not able to meet Hitler face to face, and relied on much ru

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Walter Charles Langer (February 51899 – July 41981) was a Cambridge, Massachusettspsychoanalyst best known for his role in preparing a psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler that predicted his suicide.

Born in South Boston, Walter Langer was the son of recent immigrants from Germany. His older brother William became the history department chair at Harvard University who took a leave of absence during World War II to serve as head of the Research and Analysis section of the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Commissioned by OSS boss, William "Wild Bill"

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Walter Charles Langer

American psychoanalyst of Adolf Hitler (1899–1981)

Walter Charles Langer (February 5, 1899 – July 4, 1981) studied psychoanalysis at Harvard University, where he worked as a professor upon completion of his education. He was later employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where in 1943 he prepared a psychoanalysis profile of Hitler. In this analysis, Langer accurately predicted that Hitler would commit suicide as the "most plausible outcome", and the possibility of a military coup against Hitler well before the assassination attempt of 1944.

Following Langer's analysis and Hitler's subsequent death, Langer turned the report into a book about Adolf Hitler, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A Secret Wartime Report. This book was Langer's best-known; however, he also wrote the books Psychology and Human Living, A Psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend, and Dissecting the Hitler Mind.

Early life and education

Langer was born on February 5, 1899, in South Boston to Charles Rudolph and Johanna Rockenbach, recent imm