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My theory relating nationalism to the idea and experience of the human body began with my study of Hitler's rhetoric and subsequent book, Hitler's Ideology.

When I began reading Mein Kampf and Hitler's speeches, I didn't have anything specific in mind, other than the idea that it might be a good thing to solve the problem of "why the Nazis killed the Jews" (the causes of the Holocaust).

I began noticing the recurrence of bodily images pervading Hitler's writings and speeches. There was no theory of "embodied metaphor" at the time. I simply was astonished by the recurrence of certain bodily images and metaphors. 

I reconstructed Hitler's vision of the nation as a body and conveyed my findings through the vehicle of a series of Tables, the first of which is below, "The Country is a Living Organism."

I didn't know what I was getting into at the time. However, as in turns out, this idea or conception or experience of the German nation lay at the heart of Hitler's thought and of everything that occurred in Nazi Germany.

There was one mysterious sentence (from Mein Kampf, Statement #2 below) that particularly fascinated me: "Could anyone believe that Germany alone was not subject to exactly the same laws as all other human organisms?"

I eventually realized that Hitler was referring to the Law of the Immune System, that property of organisms that causes them to reject or eject or destroy foreign or alien cells. 

Table 1. of Hitler Ideology: "The Country is a Living Organism"