About the book: 2008 / The significance of Adolf Hitler’s personality lies far beyond the boundaries of world politics and history. Hitler not only destroyed Germany, he put an end to old Europe with its conflicts, hereditary strife, with all its splendor and grandeur. His whole life is a mystical sense of fate, an awareness of his highest role in the salvation of Germany, the German people. The overwhelming majority of Germans looked at him as a messiah, believed him and sincerely followed him. Thousands of books are dedicated to Hitler. At the same time, his image was colored by a myriad of fabrications, slander and lies. How this “possessed”, “main monster”, “criminal number 1” managed to rise to the highest level of power, lead an entire people, create a powerful state remains one of the main questions of world history. Famous historian, writer Alexander Ushakov, author of the bestseller " Stalin. Beyond Good and Evil,” in his new book, gives his answers to how and why this happened..