In Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River from Germany on April 20,1889, Adolf Hitler was born. Not long after his birth, Alois Hitler, his father, moved the family to Linz, Austria. Hitler attended school in Linz. He was a good student until he was in high school. Hitler's desire to be an artist and his academic abilities did not please his father because Alois hoped that his son would study to become a government worker like he had been.
             In attempt of fulfilling his dream of becoming an artist, Hitler went to Vienna, Austria in 1907. He gave up on that dream after he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts twice. During this time he lived in cheap rooming houses or slept on park benches without a healthy mean nor a steady job. And it is also here where he began to hate non-Germans. Though he was only a German-speaking Austrian, he considered himself a German.He did not believe in treating all ethnic groups equally and ridiculed the Autrian government for doing so.
             Hitler volunteered for service in the German army when World War I began in 1914. The war was ended with the Treaty of Versailles, which brought humiliation to the Germans on June 28, 1919. In 1920, he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party kown as the Nazis. Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party and built up membership in a short period of time, probably because of his powerful speaking ability. He organized the Storm Troopers for the Nazi party to fight groups seeking to disband the Nazi rallies. In 1923 the german economy collapsed into hyper-inflation. The peace treaty compensation was blamed for it, but the real reason was that Germany's long time costly militarism that was previously paid for by victories, now had no victory to pay its huge national debt, and the government ignored the economical advice that came from top foreign experts. The inflation was so bad that a visiting US congressman exchanged $7 for 4,000,00...