Author(s): Nigel Cawthorne

History

Even as Hitler's troops forged a relentles path across Europe, and Germany's people stood in thrall to his ranting but compulsively watchable speeches, attempts were being made to find out what was going on in his mind. To the outside observer it was clear that, perhaps more than any other world leader in modern times, Hitler was living out his own pathological psychodrama on the global stage. This book looks at the forces that impelled his madness and the attempts that were made by psychiatrists at the time and Inter to understand what made him tick. It examines elements of his background and family, as well as his experiences during World War I and his early political career, that may have impacted his later behaviour and thinking. Book jacket.