It is easy to demonstrate the inadequacy of current methods of examination, of recording observations and their evaluation in this and similar contemporary studies of the world's most cruel and 'efficient' criminals. While the Nazi leaders, undergoing trial, were fighting to survive, at least in the memory of their people, the author asked them, for instance, 'Was Hitler a military genius?' 'How could you have committed that crime?' 'Why did you not resign?' and other questions which may be asked by a judge, but not by a psychological observer. They are as meaningless as if an anthropologist were to ask a cannibal why he did not react with symptomatic gastrointestinal conversions after a feast. The psychology of dictatorship as seen by the author is void of understanding or feeling for psychodynamic concepts. Persons like Herman Goering, Rudolph Hess, Councilor Von Papen, Minister Von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Keitel, Colonel Hoess, and other Nazi leaders are diagnosed by the author and not meaningfully observed,