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Nazi Origins
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Hitler-British ConnectionThe Hitler-British Connection was the theory that Adolf Hitler was not simply an Austrian-born German extremist who rose through Munich politics after World War I, but a long-prepared British sleeper asset shaped through psychological training linked to Tavistock. In this version, Britain did not merely watch Germany’s instability; it cultivated a figure who could radicalize and destroy Germany from within. The theory is strongly retrospective, because the Tavistock Clinic was founded in 1920 while Hitler was already moving into organized nationalist politics by 1919. That chronological mismatch did not prevent the theory from spreading. Instead, Tavistock became a symbol of hidden British mind science, retroactively attached to Hitler as a way of explaining his charisma, mass influence, and catastrophic strategic utility to Britain.
- Hitler as a British AgentThe Hitler as a British Agent theory was an early claim that Adolf Hitler’s rise in the chaotic politics of post-World War I Germany was not an indigenous nationalist phenomenon but a covert British project designed to destroy Germany from within. In this interpretation, the “little corporal” was allegedly financed, shielded, or strategically encouraged so that Germany would discredit itself through extremism, internal violence, and national fragmentation. The theory emerged from the immediate postwar climate in which Germans were searching for explanations for defeat, humiliation, occupation, and political disorder. Because Hitler rose quickly in Munich after 1919 and because intelligence intrigue was already a familiar language of the era, foreign-funding theories attached themselves to him early. The British-agent version made his radicalism look less like German pathology and more like enemy design.