Games That Hitler Played Modeling the Persuasion Techniques The Social Change Processes & The Frames of T errorism in Adolf Hitler "Our national leaders are all human beings who had childhoods and childhood experiences that shaped them. What map was Hitler following, and where did it come from?" Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (p. 50) L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. Hitler-- we know what he did, and we sort of know why he did it, but how did he do it? We know that he deceived his countrymen and an entire nation and nearly brought about the end of Western civilization as it had developed in the twentieth century. He was legally appointed to power as Reich Chancellor and between 1933 and 1940 one of the most popular heads of a state in the world. But how did he pull all of that off? What tactics and strategies did he use? What mental and emotional Games did he play? What frames drove his own distorted vision? How did he influence an entire nation to accept his mad tactics? What Games were he able to recruit people to play? We know that he was a deeply disturbed person with a genius of political savvy for persuasion. What we do not know is how could a destructive and demonic-like movement (the Nazi movement) so full of hatred and formalized prejudice gained such power and influence in one of the most advanced nations in the world? How could a man with such a pathological personality "lead" so many people? How could a minority opinion of an extremist right-wing group effect the politics of an entire nation and then of the world? Neuro-Semantic Modeling Over the past year and a half, since we have been developing Neuro-Semantic models for modeling cultural phenomena, I have been exploring the key political and conceptual frames that Adolf Hitler used. I began by reading the two massive volumes of Mein Kampf , Hitler's own biographical propaganda written during his first imprisonment (1924). I then followed that up by reading a biography of him and then multiple books and works that offered various interpretations and analysis. This is a presentation of some of the things that I have found, some of the key frames (political, economic, and personal frames) that governed Hitler's mind and emotions as he took over the Socialist Worker's Party and eventually swung a nation to go along with his ideas about race superiority and "blood purity." And yet it is so much more than just about Hitler. Above and beyond what happened in Germany is the story of how personal frames play out inside of larger frames-- political frames, economic frames, socio-cultural frames, etc. And these frames all occur within various historical contexts. It took a great many things working together in a unique combination to create the monstrous disaster of Hitler. It was not just Hitler, it was not just Germany, it was not just the mishandling of the aftermath of the first World War, it was all of that and it was the economic disasters in the USA, it was the fears of Communism, it was the desperation of a people over a runaway inflation, etc. Caveat about Germans and Germany At the beginning of this presentation I think it necessary to set several frames for this study. First, what happened during the second and third decades of the 20th century that produced Hitler is not the fault of anyone living today. No person from

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