who was hitler?
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Who was Hitler?. Youth. b. April 20 1889 d. April 30 1945 (suicide) Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria- Hungary Father Alois , Mother Klara , sister Paula (he had 5 siblings, 4 of which died in infancy) His father was a customs bureau chief (after failing at farming and apiary) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WHO WAS HITLER?
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Youth• b. April 20 1889• d. April 30 1945 (suicide)
• Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria- Hungary
• Father Alois, Mother Klara, sister Paula (he had 5 siblings, 4 of which died in infancy)
• His father was a customs bureau chief (after failing at farming and apiary)
• His education had been highly studied using primary sources (report cards, interviews, etc.)- he seemed only to excel in physical education and visual arts
• Leaves school at age 16 with no qualifications
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French Unsatisfactory Geography Satisfactory
German Adequate Gymnastics Excellent
History Satisfactory Physics Adequate
Math Unsatisfactory Art Excellent
Chemistry Adequate Geometry Adequate
Hitler's final school report (September 1905) was as follows:
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Vienna• Father dies in 1903- small inheritance/support from his
mother moves to Vienna
• He worked as a casual labourer and as a street painter- painting watercolours on the streets
• He was a skilled artists, his favourite themes being nature, women and animals (dogs)
• 1907 and 1909 Hitler applied to the Academy of Arts in Vienna and was rejected both times for “unfitness in painting”
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Vienna• 1907 Klara dies
• Hitler becomes homeless living in shelters throughout Vienna
• Vienna just happened to be a hotbed of racism and prejudice
• It was here, evidence suggests, that Hitler started to develop his anti-semitism
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Munich and the War• 1913 Hitler received the rest of his father’s inheritance and moves to
Munich Germany
• The purpose of which was to escape conscription into the Austrian army which was “overrun with other races”
• In Munich he spent most of his short time reading and sneaking into Operas (Wagner)
• He was caught by the Bavarian police and sent back to Vienna where he was deemed “unfit for military service”- likely due to his health
• Interesting fact- according to his physical he was 5’8
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The War• When war broke out he volunteered into the Bavarian army (its own
unit fighting closely with the Germany army)
• Dispatch runner, spent most of his time behind the front lines but did serve at Ypres, Somme and Passchendaele- he was wounded at the Somme (shot in the thigh)
• He received the Iron Cross- highest military award in Germany as well as the Black Wound Badge
• “Respect the superior, don’t contradict anybody and obey blindly”
• October 1918- temporarily blinded by mustard gas and was in a hospital when Germany surrendered.
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