Most
of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during
World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the
nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication
of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity
of National Socialism, and the
fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.