Robert G. L. Waite

Robert George Leeson Waite ( born February 18, 1919 in Cartwright, Manitoba, † October 4, 1999 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) was a Canadian-American historian.

Waite, son of a minister, the Macalester College visited in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated in 1941. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the United States Army and then studied history at Harvard University. In 1949 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of the Freikorps in Germany after the First World War (The German Free Corps movement from 1918 to 1923 ), which appeared in 1952 under the title Vanguard of Nazism in an extended version in book form.

After receiving his doctorate Waite moved to the Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. There he received a professorship (Brown Professor of History ) and taught and conducted research until his retirement in 1988, interrupted by a 1953 with the help of a research fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation -funded research stay in Germany.

His most influential ( and most controversial ) work was a 1977 published under the title The Psychopathic God psychological study of Adolf Hitler in which Hitler ( according to a 1968 in a book by Lew Besymenski first published, alleged Soviet autopsy report) missing left testicle played an important role.

Works

• Vanguard of Nazism. The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1952. ( = Harvard Historical Studies, Volume 60 )
• (Ed.) Hitler and Nazi Germany. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1965.
• The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. Basic Books, New York 1977. ISBN 0-465-06743-3
• Hitler in World War II: Irrationality, Conjecture, Chance, Choice and Imagination. Lecture, March 19, 1981 Phi Alpha Theta, SUNY.
• Emperor and leader. A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1998. ISBN 0 - 8020-4185 -X
• Hitler, The Emperor, and Me: An Academic 's Procession. R.G.L. Waite, Williamstown, MA 1999.