Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

1889 - 1920

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in the small Austrian village

of Braunau Am Inn. Hitler would one day lead a movement which would

leave it's mark in history. To understand him better, we must study

his early life and roots.

Family Information

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Hitler's father, Alois was born in 1837. He was the son of Maria Anna

Schicklgruber whose mate was unknown, but could have been Jewish. When

Alois Hitler was about five years old Maria Schicklgruber married

Johann Georg Hiedler. Five years after marriage Maria died of natural

causes and Alois Hitler went to live on his uncle's farm. After many

years at his uncle's farm, Alois Hitler went to Vienna, where he

worked as a civil servant, achieving the rank of Senior Assistant

Inspector.

Alois Hitler had had a number of affairs but in 1885 he married a

pregnant woman named Klara Polzl. Alois Hitler Junior and Angela

Hitler, the children from his affairs attended the Wedding. Klara

Polzl gave birth to two boys and a girl all of whom died. On April 20th

1889, Adolf Hitler was born, followed by his brother, Edmund in 1893

and his sister, Paula, in 1896.

Adolf Hitlers education and Early Views

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At the age of six, in 1895, Adolf Hitler entered first grade in the

village of Fischlham's public school. Also in the same year he entered

education, his father retired from the civil service. Alois Hitler was

strict on his children, each child had chores to carry out on the farm

where the Hitler family lived. Alois Hitler was finding retirement

difficult and Alois Hitler Junior took t...

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...arted to increase. In 1920, Hitler insisted that the German

Workers Party should hold it's first mass meeting. On February 24th

1920, two thousand people were reported to attend the meeting where

Hitler gave a speech provoking violence between the party members and

the many communists at the meeting. The meeting was very important as

it gave Hitler the opportunity to outline the 25 point programme he

produced with Anton Drexler. The 25 point programme was the Key stone

into what Hitler believed in and the meeting gave Hitler a chance to

express his extreme views on a large scale.

Bibliography

- HITLER by Ian Kershaw - (Various pages)

- Weimar and Nazi Germany by John Hite and Chris Hinton - p. 55/56

- Microsoft Encarta 98

- THE WORLD AT WAR 1939-45, by Readers Digest, page 9

- www.historyplace.com

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