This is a story about three Adolfs. Sohei Toge, a Japanese reporter for 1936 Berlin Olympics was surprised that his younger brother, an international student in Germany, was mysteriously murdered right after informing him about an important document. To add more confusion to his sadness, all information regarding his younger brother as a student in Germany have been erased systematically, as if he never existed. Meanwhile in Japan, a half-German, half-Japanese boy named Adolf Kauffmann and his best friend, a Jewish-German boy named Adolf Kamil, were accidentally involved in this incident. Their lives and fates are now inevitably interwoven around the biggest secret of the third Adolf—Adolf Hitler.

Adolf ni Tsugu won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category. The series was first published in English as Adolf by Cadence Books and VIZ Media from March 22, 1996, to February 22, 1997. Vertical Inc. re-published the series as Message to Adolf in two omnibus volumes from August 28, 2012, to December 18, 2012. The series was also released in Brazil by Conrad Editora; in France by Tonkam; in German by Carlsen Verlag; in Italian by Hazard, in Spanish by Planeta DeAgostini; in Dutch by Xtra; in Polish by Waneko; and in Czech by Crew.