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Adolf Hitlers Life

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The Early Life of Adolf Hitler
Many individuals all over the world know of Adolf Hitler and his terrible deeds. They know of his reasonability to the deaths of over 6 million innocent Jews. Many of these individuals believe that Adolf Hitler was a hateful man, with no heart or compassion. Only knowing the history of the Holocaust and World War II, that statement is true. But what would a man go through to end up heartless, compassionless, and evil? Adolf Hitler had a family, a childhood, and a personal history that not many individuals know about. I decided for my research paper that I would write about the early life of Adolf Hitler and what changed him into the evil man that the whole world knows him for.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, …show more content…

As his grade school years were ending, Adolf had to choose between technical or classical school. His father pushed him to follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant. Adolf did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. He wanted to attend classical school and follow his dreams of becoming an artist. Against Adolf’s will, his father sent him to technical high school in the city of Linz. Hitler’s first year in technical school went horribly. Hitler was a country boy in a school full of city boys. These children looked down on him, assuming that since he was from the country he was unintelligent. He was very lonely and extremely unhappy his first year, resulting in poor grades. Adolf had a great resentment to his father for sending him to technical school. Hitler explained in his book Mein Kampf that he “thought that once my father saw what little progress I was making at the [technical school] he would let me devote myself to the happiness I dreamed of.” (the history place) Many arguments happened between Hitler and his father. Hitler argued he did not want to spend his life at a desk that his dreams were to be an artist. Yet his father did not listen and sent him back to the technical school. This caused a bitter struggle between Adolf and his father. Adolf wanted to do everything opposite of his father. This is where Adolf’s interest in German Nationalism arose and quickly became an obsession. Alois had worked as an Austrian Imperial Customs agent and expressed loyalty to Austria. Seeing his father express his loyalty to Austria, Adolf began to express loyalty to the German Kaiser. Hitler and his friends used the German greeting “Heil”, and liked to sing the German anthem “Deutschland Uber Alles”. The constant struggle with his father would soon end. In 1903 Alois died of a lung hemorrhage, leaving 13 year old Adolf Hitler the head of the Hitler

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