A review by poenaestante
Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler by Shigeru Mizuki

4.0

Riveting account of the life and times of Hitler by a true master of Manga and storytelling. I am always embarrassed to realize how the version of history I got in American school textbooks was so abbreviated. People talk about going back in time to kill Hitler, but the most amazing revelation for me was that loads of people tried to kill him IN HIS OWN TIME. It's like the dude refused to be killed save by his own hand. That persistence, luck, and ability to champion batshit crazy ideas (along with leveraging a weak state and receiving ample funding from anti-communist aristocrats) was really what kept him in circulation long enough to gain a popular foothold. Hitler's rise was quite slow and improbable in many ways (and ALWAYS vigorously contested by a vocal few!) but I have no doubt the same sort of person could rise to power today and probably has in a great many places where people either don't know or refuse to acknowledge history.