Hitler - The Fuhrer and the People

His life, his times, his policies, his strategies, his influence have often been analysed. But rarely is the most elementary question of all raised - how could it happen? How could a predominantly sober, hard-working and well-educated population have been persuaded to the awful abyss of destruction? What was the image projected in his speeches, his writings and his conversation? What were those elements from which the Hitler myth was constructed? With terrifying logic the sequence of his career emerges as the creation of a man who translated the private sphere of sentiment into a public sphere of political action. This is a compelling attempt to reconstruct the nature of Hitler's political ideology, its roots, its logic and its function...