Step by Step with Hitler. A long-term endeavor, the author strove to visit everywhere Hitler had ever been.
Whether as the boy from his Austrian village, the Viennese vagrant, the soldier of the First World War, the revolutionary embittered by defeat, the leader of a party, and the head of Germany.
Ray Petitfrère retraced the path of this man. He shows us an intimate Hitler, friendless, solitary, embittered by failures, his own when he wanted to become a painter and was rejected by the academy, as well as those of Germany, whose population shared with him the concept of betrayal by an army undefeated on the battlefields.
Step by Step with Hitler allows us to discover the Nazi leader, the architect of a genocide. The author also paints a portrait of his accomplices.
A no-holds-barred, objective book about this man who became the ruler of Goethe’s country and led it into the abyss. A trial of Germany and Nazism.
Why did the Germans agree to follow him? He answers this himself with cynicism: People love to hear what pleases them. All it takes is to shape opinion. One cannot be more cynical, and his disciple Goebbels was a skilled hypnotist of the German people.
Step by Step with Hitler, a fascinating journey into this period of the first half of the 20th century that bore two wars and two criminal ideologies.
Even if the author does not mention the crimes of communism, objectively, they cannot be ignored. Both ideologies drenched the world in blood, and unfortunately, there are still today supporters of these two evil hydras.
Thierry Jan
