130 Years After Hitler’s Birth, He Continues to Live as a Symbol of Evil

The following is adapted from the TIME special edition The Science of Good and Evil, available at retailers and on Amazon

It's hard to think of Adolf Hitler as a thing of flesh and viscera and bone and blood — a functioning organism like the rest of us, someone who breathed and ate and slept and sweated. He wasn’t a functioning organism for long — just 56 years from his birth on April 20, 1889, to his self-inflicted death in 1945.

The following is adapted from the TIME special edition The Science of Good and Evil, available at retailers and on Amazon It's hard to think of Adolf Hitler as a thing of flesh and viscera and bone and blood — a functioning organism like the rest of us, someone who breathed and ate and slept and sweated. He wasn’t a functioning organism for long — just 56 years from his birth on April 20, 1889, to his self-inflicted death in 1945.