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Adolf Hitler
• Born 1889 20 April in
Austria to Alexois and
Klara Hitler who then
moved the Linz in Austria
• Grew up and happy and
cheerful boy with his 5
brothers and sisters
before his family moved
to Lambach in Germany
after his father failed in
being a farmer
Early Years
• When his younger brother Edmund died in 1900 Adolf’s
personality changed
• He changed from being a confident clever boy to one
who constantly battled with his teachers and parents
• He had a good relationship with his mother but often
fought with his authoritarian father
• His father wanted him to follow in his footsteps of being
an Austrian custom official whereas Adolf wanted to a
classical high school
• His father never relented and Adolf become more bitter
• He did not consisder himself Austrian or Austrian
German but purely German (think back to the early units)
Continued
• His father died in 1903 and Adolf’s behaviour become more
uncontrollable
• He was expelled from school twice
• From 1905 (16) he was living a bohemian life in Vienna on a
orphans pension and rejected twice from the Vienna School of Fine
Arts who suggested he was better suited to architecture
• In 1907 his mother died and he continued to live in Vienna trying to
make a living as a painter
• At this time Vienna had many Jews who had escaped the pogroms'
in Russia, but it was also a place of wide spread anti-Semitism and
racism
• This may have influenced his views later on, as well as the
teachings of Martin Luther and Wagner
• In 1913 he recived the final part of his fathers estate and moved to
Munich
World War 1
• First he managed to avoid military service in
Austria due to ill health but when Germany
joined he joined a Bavarian regiment
• He served in the Western Front as a runner and
rose to he rank of Lance Coporal
• He participated in a number of battles including
Ypres, Somme and Passcendale
• He was decorated twice for bravery (Iron Cross)
and was wounded in 1916
• In 1918 he was blinded in a mustard gas attack
and placed in hospital
Post War
• Hitler had long admired Germany, and during the war he
had become a passionate German patriot, although he
did not become a German citizen until 1932.
• Hitler found the war to be 'the greatest of all experiences'
and afterwards he was praised by a number of his
commanding officers for his bravery.
• Hitler believed in the Dolchstoßlegende ("dagger-stab
legend") which claimed that the army, "undefeated in the
field," had been "stabbed in the back" by civilian leaders
and Marxists back on the home front.
• These politicians were later dubbed the November
Criminals.
Entry to Politics
• In July 1919, Hitler was appointed a Verbindungsmann
(police spy) of an Aufklärungskommando (Intelligence
Commando) of the Reichswehr, both to influence other
soldiers and to infiltrate a small party, the German
Workers' Party (DAP).
• During his inspection of the party, Hitler was impressed
with founder Anton Drexler's anti-semitic, nationalist,
anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist ideas, which favoured a
strong active government, a "non-Jewish" version of
socialism and mutual solidarity of all members of society.
• Drexler was impressed with Hitler's oratory skills and
invited him to join the party. Hitler joined DAP on 12
September 1919 and became the party's 55th member.
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