The story of Hitler's rise to power as leader of Germany, the destruction of democracy and civilized values in a great nation, together with World War II, for which he bears the principal responsibility, provide a painful historical lesson. The rise and fall of the Hitler regime warn us of the destruction that ensues when a perverted ideology and a cult of leadership are combined with a polity where power is divorced from morality.; This illustrated A-to-Z biographical companion provides information about the key events in Hitler's life; his most important collaborators and opponents; his domestic and foreign policies; the use of propaganda and the forging of the Hitler cult; racial persecution and the Holocaust; and Hitler as a war leader.