Writers James Trivers and Alan Roche assisted Hant in producing the original English version of the book.

The book is divided into two sections: in the first part, a narrative retells the formative years of the young Adolf Hitler between 1907 and 1918, when he lived as a starving artist on the streets and in the asylums of Vienna, and then joined World War I as a volunteer on the Western Front.

[1] According to Hant, this decisive turning point in Hitler's life can only be explained satisfactorily now that recent research has unearthed certain previously unknown data and facts.

Most importantly, the appendices substantiate Hant's thesis which casts a surprising new light on the reasons behind Hitler's rise to power.

How did such a nonentity - a man with only a primary school certificate, no money and no helpful connections manage to turn the everyday life of one of the most important industrialized nations of its time inside out within just a few years?

Not only did his exceptional memory help Hitler to apply his knowledge in a way that appealed to the dull masses, he also knew how to make an impression on intelligent and highly educated individuals in the top echelon of society.

In order to be taken seriously in a world ruled by reason, he claimed to be nothing more than an “ordinary politician”, leaving his followers to organise the cult-like worship that developed around him.

As Hant stated in an interview: “The current school of thought assumes that these statements (like calling himself “a tool of providence”) are lies helping him (Hitler) to promote his own myth.