In a shattered postwar world, Professor Albrecht Aigen sets out to explain how The Leader, an uneducated and superstitious man, seized a modern nation and commanded almost religious loyalty. His inquiries hit a wall of silence among the former powerful, forcing him to turn to janitors, nurses, prisoners, and other overlooked witnesses whose memories reveal guilt, trauma, and reverence in equal measure. Their testimony suggests that The Leader's authority was not merely political: he seemed able to bend minds, turn resistance into obedience, and leave behind a nation haunted by complicity. As Aigen and his colleague Dr. Karl Thurn probe the mystery, they encounter bizarre psi phenomena in the laboratory, including assistant technician Hans Schweeringen's impossible predictions of random computer calculations. Thurn argues that such gifts may involve telepathy, psychokinesis, or precognition, while Aigen grows increasingly desperate to deny that psychic power could enable tyranny on a world-shaping scale. Letters and reports deepen the unease, linking occult foresight, inherited gifts, and the machinery of authoritarian rule. Darkly satirical and intellectually unsettling, the novel blends political horror, science fiction, and psychic speculation into a chilling study of charisma, obedience, and the hidden forces that can remake history. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.