Argues that a nation's character and psychological traits can be reconstructed from the study of its folklore, and that German folklore is preoccupied with anality. On pp. 119-141, links this theme with anti-Judaism. German antisemites equated Jews with dirt and disease, and projected their own feelings of inner corruption produced by strict, even sadistic, childrearing practices, on the Jews. The Final Solution was an attempt to resolve this inner tension. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).