The disclosure of the Holocaust to the international community at the end of World War II in 1945 had the effect of having historians change the way they interpreted past events. The parameters used up to that moment had been stated in terms of economic, social and political terms that failed to explain the motivations that drove Germany, considered as one of the most civilized nations in the world, to mass murder millions of human beings on a racist basis. The importance of psychological profiling of the political leaders who staged the Holocaust became absolutely necessary to interpret this horrendous human experience.
