Organisms die. Hitler aspired to fashion Germany into a unique kind of organism: not subject to decay or death, embracing the idea of Germany as an organism that was "immortal," capable of "living on."  

The dream of the nation is the dream that one's own body is bound to another body, an omnipotent extension of one's own body. Identifying with one’s nation, one imagines one's own body is fused with a gigantic organism (one's own body becomes a body politic") One no longer is a small, insignificant, isolated individual. One’s own body becomes co-extensive with a gigantic body.

Hitler embraced the idea of Germany as an immortal entity not subject to death and decay. Yet and still, this German organism contained a death instinct, which Hitler identified as "the Jew."

If Jews could be removed from within the body politic, Hitler believed—then the German body politic would become a unique body unlike all other bodies that move toward disintegration. The German body politic (and Hitler who identified with this body) could live forever.

In spite of Hitler’s prodigious efforts (to destroy death by killing every Jew in the world), this an impossible dream.

The nationalist splits off part of himself and projects it into the “the country.” “Hitler is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler” was the slogan of Nazism. The body politic—Germany—became co-extensive with one's own body.

Identification with a body politic implies escape from one’s own body. In nationalism, the self is relocated into a place outside the self. One’s actual body is denied in the name of devotion to a "the King's Second Body." This second body sequesters peoples’ energies, generating all forms of political destructiveness. Warfare, genocide and terrorism.

This is the history of homo sapiens, the pathetic animal who believes he is unique, unlike other unfortunate animals who are born, live--and then die.