Adolf Hitler, the simple mention of his name conjures up memories of total war, death and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and always the deaths of millions of Jews and other "undesirables" in the Holocaust. How did this happen? How was it possible that a failed artist could rebuild Germany in just six years, challenge the world to mortal combat, and nearly win? He simply possessed what few other politicians of his day had, he …showed first 75 words of 1738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1738 total…them to halt for two entire months. Even then they almost made it to Moscow. Suffice to say that if this had happened, Germany would almost certainly have won the war in Europe and a new very dark age would have descended over occupied Europe. Fortunately for the world at large and the people of Europe, Hitler lost his nerve at the last moment and the unstoppable German colossus was defeated by its own master.