Adolf Hitler Biography

Hitler’s eventful and daunting up-brining was possibly what provoked him to transform into a hateful and sour man. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn on the Austro-German border on 20th April 1889. Adolf Hitler had an appalling infancy, right through to his teens. His father, Alois Hitler, was abusive to his entire family. Klara Polzl, Adolf’s mother was a caring and loving woman, she gave birth to six children though only three survived to become adults, Adolf, his younger brother Edmund and one of his sisters Paula. (Maya productions, 2014) He was not popular in school, he was lazy and did not care about his school work. Although in gym and art he received ‘excellent’ on his last report card. Hitler was clearly intelligent but bored by much of his formal education, except for history, which was taught with a strong German nationalist bias. (Maya productions, 2014)
After the death of his father in 1903 Adolf dropped out of school. Unsatisfied with his life at home he reached out to find a pathway of success in an area of work that suited his skills and passion. He was 13 and moved to Vienna to become a painter. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice but he was rejected both times. Being rejected would leave the impression that his work was lacking talent and influenced him to give up on painting. His money from an orphan's pension and borrowed from relatives eventually ran out, and he was forced to take refuge in men's hostels where he lived from 1909 to 1913. Hitler indorsed his time in Vienna with giving him his first anti-Semitic feelings. These feelings were introduced from the rejection of the art academy because Jewish people worked there and also because the Jewish people had more money than him. Despite his bankr...

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...e employed the slogan Hitler uber Deutschland (‘Hitler over Germany’) and hired aircraft to visit and campaign in more than two dozen major cities. (Alpha History: Nazi Germany, 2012)Though Hindenburg won the election with 49 per cent of the vote, the campaign and resultant media attention thrust Hitler into the national spotlight. Hitler was convincing enough to win 30 per cent of the presidential vote, while his growing prominence aided the Nazis in the Reichstag elections of July 1932. (Anonymous, 2014)In January 1933 the Government thought the best way to end the instability within the government was to appoint Hitler as chancellor and did so on 30 January 1933. (About.com 20th Century History, 2014)The NSDAP leader’s public image, impressive speech-making and aggressive negotiating had earned him the backing of many wealthy industrialists and business owners.