Mein Kampf

One of the most destructive myths of the twentieth century is the one about Hitler's pathological personality. There is an almost unanimous consensus that the man was a monster, less human than any other historical persona, save only perhaps count Dracula, who had to relinquish his real existence to be fully incorporated into myth. Hitler remains firmly rooted in both myth and history and that is no coincidence. That the myth of his personal monstrosity is probably correct does not render it less problematic. It is the apology of society which refuses to acknowledge its own monstrosity. Hitler erroneously called the untrue society by its true name. The myth of Hitler today is merely an inversion of his personality cult, an explanation of totality via the particular, when in fact fascism was the manifestation of radical subordination of the particular under totality. It is the form that makes the true myth a lie. Adorno made a similar point in Minima Moralia 94 - Staatsaktion:

[Drama] interprets the seizing of power by the most powerful harmlessly as machination of rackets outside of society, not as the self-realization of society by itself.