✳︎Book Title: Manga Hitler ✳︎Author: Shigeru Mizuki ✳︎Publisher: Chikuma Shobo Co., Ltd. ✳︎Imprint: Chikuma Bunko ✳︎ISBN: 4-480-02449-2 ✳︎First Edition Publication Date: July 31, 1990 ✳︎Page Count: 288 pages ✳︎Size: A6 ✳︎First Published: Serialized in "Weekly Manga Sunday" in 1971 This book is structured to follow Hitler from his youth to his final days in Berlin, divided into "Chapter 1 to Chapter 16" and "Concluding Chapter." The core of this book lies in Shigeru Mizuki's unique, detached perspective, which deconstructs and reconstructs the dictator, often seen as a "monster," as a "human being." This book neither deifies Hitler nor dismisses him as a mere embodiment of evil. By meticulously depicting his aspects as a "failure in life," such as his youth dreaming of becoming a painter, his setbacks, and his days in a vagrant shelter, the book coolly traces the process by which he absorbed societal discontent and transformed into a "dictator" who commanded the fervor of the masses. Shigeru Mizuki's characteristic detailed yet distorted brushwork brings to life the abnormal fervor of Nazi Germany and the profound "eerie feeling" of the person that was Hitler to the extreme. While based on historical facts, the shadow of death and sense of emptiness that permeate the edges of the panels can be said to be a realism only achievable by an author who experienced the war years. The story depicts the birth of a flamboyant dictator and his end in a Berlin bunker (the collapse at the "Wolf's Lair"). Ultimately, the reader is confronted with a weighty question about why people at the time fervently supported him, and the structure of "justification of madness" that resonates with contemporary society. In a word, this book can be described as one that casts an inverse light on the darkness of history by depicting "the story of an ordinary and petty human being on the path to madness." #Hitler #German #Hakenkreuz #HeilHitler #AdolfHitler #Aryan #GermanicPeople #Germany #Fascism #Xenophobia #Swastika #Gestapo #ShigeruMizuki #GeneralRommel