The Adolf Hitler Disease - and Its Treatment
Osho: The Last Testament, Volume 1, Chapter 21
Question:
No country, not even America, is as upset as the Germans at your presence in
the world today, and at your influence on intelligent and creative people. They
are trying hard to see you as another Hitler. What does that tell about the
German mind, forty years after Hitler's death?
Osho:
The ghost of Adolf
Hitler, his long shadow, is still present. And Adolf Hitler is not something
that you can confine to one person. It is something deep down in the German
mind itself. Adolf Hitler would not have existed if the German mind had not
been supportive of him. And not only ordinary people -- who can be easily
influenced, impressed -- but many exceptional people: geniuses like Heidegger,
who is certainly the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, he
was a follower of Adolf Hitler.
What these people were seeing in Adolf Hitler was something that was in
themselves. In Adolf Hitler it was magnified. In themselves they could not see
it, but Adolf Hitler became the mirror; they could see it, and he became the
representative of the collective unconscious mind of Germany. Hence, the
influence that he had.
Although fifty years have passed, the German mind is still the same. And when
they see my influence on people they become afraid, for the simple reason that
if I can influence so many young intelligent German people, I can paint the
whole of Germany red. And Germany has suffered through Adolf Hitler's influence
so much, the wound is still there and it hurts. They don't know much about me.
All they know is that thousands of young Germans are ready to die for me. To
their knowledge, this phenomenon had happened only with Adolf Hitler. In the
same way, thousands and thousands of people were ready to die for him, to do
anything for him. So they see a certain similarity. But there is no similarity
at all.
I teach people to live for me, not to die for me. I teach people to dance for
me, not to die for me. All your so-called great leaders of the world have told
their people that they should be ready to die for them. That was thought to be
something of great pride. And certainly millions have died for idiots. They
died, they killed, all kinds of neurosis was released by these so-called
leaders....
OshO
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