Adolf Hitler, a human-hating psychopath, a criminal responsible for the death of more than fifty-six million people, including millions of his own fellow citizens, aroused the fanatical admiration, support and love of the broadest sections of German society. How did this become possible? The study of Hitler's personality undertaken by Lawrence Rees and the analysis of attempts to explain it with the demonic, hypnotic, transcendental abilities of the Fuhrer are based on scrupulous work with a huge amount of documentary materials and allow us to better understand the origins of the greatest tragedy, whose name is the Third Reich.