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Adolf Hitler The Definitive Biography
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as ... much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.
Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct anställda interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with tillgång to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges , in Toland’s words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing europe Jews . .
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Adolf Hitler Biography
Adolf Hitler Biography
A Biography of Adolf Hitler
Early Days - 1889-1908
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. The town is near
to the Austro-German border, and his father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the
border crossing. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children by
Alois, (Gustav and Ida) but they both died in their infancy. Adolf attended school from
the age of six and the family lived in various villages around the
town of Linz, east of Braunau. By this time Adolf had a younger
brother, Edmund, but he only lived until the age of six. In 1896,
Klara gave birth to Adolf 's sister, Paula, who survived to outlive
him.
Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left, before
completing his tuition, with an ambition to become an artist. Alois
Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf
and Paula on her own. Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, young Adolf n
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Adolf Hitler Biography
Family
The fourth of six children, Adolf Hitler was born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. As a child, Hitler clashed frequently with his emotionally harsh father, who also didn't approve of his son's later interest in fine art as a career. Following the death of his younger brother, Edmund, in 1900, Hitler became detached and introverted.
Early Life and Painting
Hitler showed an early interest in German nationalism, rejecting the authority of Austria-Hungary. This nationalism would become the motivating force of Hitler's life.
In 1903, Hitler's father died suddenly. Two years later, Adolf's mother allowed her son to drop out of school. After her death in December 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna and worked as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. Hitler applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice and was rejected both times. Lacking money outside of an orphan's pension and funds from selling postcards, he stayed in homeless shelters.