Adolf Hitler began by making a mess of his life. He dropped out of school at the age of 14, failed his entrance exam at the Vienna Academy of Arts twice, and spent the time from his eighteenth to his twenty-fifth year in Vienna and then in Munich doing nothing and aspiring to nothing. Then, in 1914 when World War I broke out, Hitler volunteered for the Bavarian army. Hitler was a good soldier and received a couple of awards for bravery but never ranked higher than corporal. In 1918, when Germany finally surrendered, Hitler was very upset. He believed that it was the Jews and the Communists who betrayed the "fatherland", and it was at this time that his hatred for the Jews most likely began.

In 1919, Hitler joined a small radical Right-wing party, which called itself the "National Socialist German Workers' Party", or Nazi party, where he soon became the leader. The party was small at fi

The Meaning of Hitler is an interesting book and Sebastian Haffner does an excellent job at examining Hitler's every motive behind his astonishing career. However, one problem with this book is that it is difficult to read. Because the book is translated into English by another person, I often found myself reading sentences over and over in order to understand what the author is trying to say. However, it is a very stimulating book and I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning about Adolf Hitler.

World War II began in 1939 when German armies and warplanes attacked Poland. Two days later Britain and France jumped in and declared war on Germany. The Polish army was no match for the German army, and Hitler's armies crushed Poland in four weeks. In the meantime, German armies occupied Denmark and Norway and trapped the British army on the beaches of Dunkirk. France was now taken by the Nazis. Next, Germany attacked Britain by air, but Britain would not back down and eventually Germany backed off. Then, in June 1941 Germany turned and attacked the Soviet Union. However, the Germans completely underestimated the Soviet Union's ability of its government to control and mobilize the country's resources and were defeated in 1943. By June 1944, the war was going very badly for Hitler. A series of losses to the Allies and failure to defeat the Soviets had left Hitler's armies severely weakened. Germany had also changed a great deal. British and American bombers were devastating its industries and cities. Underestimating the Americans, Hitler launched his last reserves west into Belgium and Luxembourg in the Battle of the Bulge. He felt that a hard blow would cause popular support for the war in America to collapse, and would lead to the breakup of the coalition arrayed against him. All he accomplished, however, was to draw away troops needed in the east, allowing the Soviet army's winter offensive to push forward all the way to the gates of Berlin. Hitler decided to remain in the city, hoping to inspire its defend

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