Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th in 1889 in the Austrian town of

Braunau, close to the bordering River Inn separating Austria from

Germany. He disliked his father who was a minor customs official in

the service of the Austrian Hapsburg Empire but adored his mother and

worshipped her. His father died in 1903 when Adolf was only fourteen

and still in school.

Adolf Hitler proved to be a failure at school, showing no outstanding

talents or abilities in any of his studied subjects. Even though he

had a poor record as a student, he remained in full-time education

until the age of sixteen. He then spent two years living with his

mother in the Austrian town of Linz until her death in 1907. After her

death, Adolf went to live in Vienna to follow his dream of becoming a

great artist or architect and twice applied to the Vienna Academy of

Fine Arts but was rejected both times.

Adolf was very poor and unemployed most of the time which meant he

lived mainly in hostels in Vienna. Between the years of 1909 and 1913

he spent most of his time drifting around the streets of Vienna in the

hope of becoming employed. At one time, he worked as a labourer but

was fired when a Jewish trade-union official discovered he'd lied in

order to get the job. It was this event that probably founded his deep

hatred towards the Jews which resulted in his ideas of racial purity

and the Holocaust. Although little is known about his time in Vienna,

it is during these years that he picked up many of his ideas which he

later used in the Nazi Party.

In 1913, Adolf Hitler moved to Munich, Germany in order to avoid

military service in ...

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...ere quickly executed.

But Hitler's stubborn nature refused to let him retreat or surrender

and he continued battling through throughout the War. His fanatical

belief that he could still win prevented him from surrendering and

saving many German lives. He wanted to destroy Europe if he was not

going to be able to rule it.

In the ruins of their capital city, Hitler and many other Nazi leaders

committed suicide to escape trials of punishment after the end of the

war. Hitler himself committed suicide by swallowing poison before

shooting himself and his family on April 30th, 1945.

The war was over but not without a tremendous amount of suffering to

follow and an extremely high cost in human lives. Hitler had not only

got what he had wanted, mass destruction, but he had also got away

with it too by killing himself.

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