<p>On the night of 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an improbable political journey that came close to faltering on many occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded.<br>While the story of Hitler's rise has been told in books covering larger portions of his life, no previous work has focused on his eight-...