Er Ist Wieder Da (He's Back) has sold more than 400,000 copies since its release, keeping it at the top of the Spiegel's bestseller chart since mid December.
In the novel, author Timur Vermes relates Hitler's cult of personality to our modern celebrity obsession through 397 pages of pitch-black prose.
The humour is relentlessly dark, revolving to a large extent around Hitler's interaction with modern innovations. The fuhrer discovers jeans, sets the ringtone on his new smartphone to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, and is disappointed to learn that Hitler89, his preferred email address, has been taken. Related Articles
"Often, we tell ourselves that if a new Hitler came along, it would be easy to stop him. I tried to show the opposite – that even today, Hitler might be successful. Just in a different way."
The book is due to be published in English by MacLehose Press by the end of 2014.
... inclinations and biological temperament haven't changed much over thousands of years ... Julian Assange
German (Deutsch [ˈdɔʏtʃ] ( listen)) is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90[3]–100 million[2] native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.
I was working in a Belgium community in the Congo, they were all buying anything about Hitler they could find. It was like they were worshiping him. ATT I thought it was strange.