Himmler-Hoover

From M.: "In his biography of Hoover “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover” published last year, Anthony Summers quotes Dr Harold Lief, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, saying that “Hoover would have made a perfect high-level Nazi.” (p. 520) Lief suggests various psychological traits that make Himmler and Hoover quite similar: “Like Edgar, Lief noted, Himmler had a weak father and was heavily dependent on his mother. He too kept precise records and diaries from an abnormally early age. ... had fixed right-wing ideas from an early age. Though a zealous officer cadet, he tried to avoid military service. He was a chatterbox who dominated all conversations, excessively strict with subordinates and outwardly submissive to superiors. He denounced others at every opportunity. He cut himself off emotionally, distanced himself from women and took an unhealthy interest in the ‘immoral’ behavior of others.” Summers also mentions the animosity between Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt. “'Now you see what a bastard Hoover is,’ she was quoted as saying. ‘That’s how he covers up his Fascist attitude. You should have seen Franklin … He said this was just another proof of the duplicity of that smug would-be-Himmler.’”"