Adolph Hitler

The author paints Adolph Hitler as a complex character whose has an unlikely background to his infamous career. Adolph Hitler is marked by trying to be accepted by an art or architecture school, and failing. Hitler spends four years in the trenches in World War I before being temporarily blinded by poison gas. Hitler is appalled at the chaos in Germany and the threat of Communist revolution after the war. He is recruited into an Army operation that monitors extremist groups and soon takes over the group, renamed the NSDAP or Nazi Party.

The chaos in Germany of hyperinflation and war reparations payments gives Hitler the opportunity to gain a following rapidly. In 1923, he launches the Munich Beer Hall Putsch as a step towards taking over Germany. Hitler is defeated and jailed, but only for one year. There he writes a book, Mein Kampf, where he writes...