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It is of course not difficult to call the National Socialistic ideology a 'paranoia', and to use this as a starting point to dress up the entire European problem in terms of 'neuropsychiatry'. The authors do this with skill, persistence, and graphic charts, the results showing all the features of such a Procrustean treatment. There is no attempt at any genetic interpretation. The therapeutic suggestions at no point leave the level of an average armchair administrator, who weeds out the really sick 'paranoia cases' (the fascists), and nurses the paranoid-reacting ones (the misled people) back to 'normality' (democratic constitution) by a kind of supervised withdrawal treatment (League of the United Nations). It may be argued that once it was a great step forward to call the criminal 'sick' instead of 'bad', and that it may be progress as well if a Nazi is called a 'paranoiac' and is treated instead of being eliminated. A superficial, unsatisfactory 'neuropsychiatric view', however, in questions of life and death—in questions which will decide the fate of generations to come—is too dangerous to allow us to appreciate such a questionable improvement in terminology.