Hitler believed himself to have Jewish blood from his father's side of the family. The Jew thus represented an alter ego onto which he projected his feelings of inferiority and guilt. The Jew also represented his father. His attempt to remove the Jew from the 'Mutterland' was therefore expressive of his family romance. The present-day dictatorial threat, in Slochower's view, is technology in the hands of bureaucracy, which has produced an ethicalmoral flatland; humanistic values and personal responsibility are disappearing. The current vogue of Kafka and the unrest of youth are reactions to this menace.