A laughable pseudo-history dreamt up by occult fantasists lay behind the myth of the Aryan super race. Yet it inspired the Nazis into war, legitimized the holocaust and led to the abduction of tens of thousands of young Aryan-looking children.

Examining how a series of psychotic episodes in his early life convinced Adolf Hitler he was a modern day Pharaoh, enabling the unremarkable drifter from Vienna to instigate the most devastating military conflict in the history of the world.