Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality

The success of Werner Maser's portrait is owed to his attention to close detail. There is much in his book that is new, and his material tends to explain Hitler rather than explain him away. Above all, Maser uncovers the real facts about Hitler's self-education from the Munich days. . . . After Maser's work it will no longer be possible to dismiss Hitler's early successes as the product of fluke or demonic intuition."
—JOHN CORNWELL, The Times Educational Supplement

"The main merits of Maser's account lie in his concentration on the personal details of Hitler's life, his medical record, his amatory relations, his childhood and education, his career as an artist in Vienna and Munich, his service in the Bavarian infantry in the first world war. Here he has provided what must be fairly close to a definitive version. His work must be indispensable to any future biographer."-
—DONALD WATT, Spectator

"The most important document on Hitler so far published."
—COLIN WILSON

Text: English, German (translation)