Mailer's Hitler Biography
Norman Mailer has published his first novel in ten years, a fictionalization of the life of Adolf Hitler to age sixteen. The Castle in the Forest joins an already crowded field of Hitler biographies (including John Toland, Joachim Fest, Ian Kershaw, John Lukacs to name a few).
Mailer concentrates on the psyche of the young Hitler trying to explain his evil nature in terms of his possible fathering from an incestuous relationship and his reputedly having only one testicle. The narrator, Dieter, is an SS officer and a "higher devil" working for Satan himself. Try this book for a plausible explanation of why Hitler behaved as he did and if you have not already been exhausted by the voluminous Hitler trove.