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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born to Alois and Klara Hitler on April 20th, 1889. His childhood was unhappy, but not totally miserable. His father wanted him to be a civil servant, but Adolf wanted to become a painter. Hitler did well in Elementary school, but later on he failed miserably, which he blamed his teachers for. His father died in 1903, and Adolf dropped out of school two years later. In “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), the autobiography Hitler dictated while in Landsberg prison in 1924, he says the period in his life from 1905 to 1908 as “…the happiest days of my life…almost a dream.” In those years he becamse obsessed with politics and developed his hatred for the Hapsburg monarchy. He applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, who rejected him, saying “test drawing unsatisfactory.” In 1908, his mother died. A year later, he moved to Vienna and began what he called “the saddest period of my life.” He lived first on the streets, then in a doss house, selling paintings......

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