Is there a connection between society, ideology, Germany's political culture 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 omnipotent master of the Third Reich, a "weak dictator" or a kind of medium who speaks in the voice of his social environment and expresses the dynamics of its development and its aspirations? "To forget that Hitler was, or to diminish his role means to make a second mistake - if we are the first to consider that we allowed the possibility of his existence," the author writes.