In Hitler's last year, more deaths were mourned than ever before in the history of humanity and ever since. The vortex of destruction into which National Socialism sank is unique. Never before have so many lives been extinguished, so many cities destroyed, and entire landscapes devastated during the collapse of an empire. Never has so much suffering and misery been inflicted upon the world by the decisions of a single individual. Harald Sandner depicts the last year of World War II from the perspective of the main perpetrator, Adolf Hitler, but also from the viewpoint of historians with today's knowledge—detailed in the context of military and political circumstances like never before. How did Hitler's leadership style change? When did his increasing loss of reality begin? What role did his illnesses play? Was he addicted to drugs?.