Is there a connection between society, ideology, political culture of Germany and the personality of the man who led the country from 1933 to 1945? Countless books about the Third Reich and World War II are not enough to answer this key question. In this book, the author traces Hitler's path step by step, from childhood to the Berlin bunker. Who was Adolf Hitler - the all-powerful master of the Third Reich, a “weak dictator” or a kind of medium speaking with the voice of his social environment and expressing the dynamics of its development and its aspirations? “To forget that Hitler existed, or to downplay his role means making the second mistake – if we consider first that we have admitted the possibility of its existence,” writes the author.