Second Thoughts
Evil Is Not Mental Illness: He Was a Nice Man and a Good Boss
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"He was a nice man and a good boss."
That is what Hitler's maid said about him. The psychology of evil is not the psychology of mental illness, and this is the episode that pulls them apart.
Rosa Mitterer went to work at the Berghof as a teenager and broke her silence in 2008, at ninety-one. Asked what he was like, she said he was charming, that he was only ever nice to her, and that he was a…