A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a Nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the ...A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a Nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a Nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant.