adolf hitler

             Adolf Hitler was a dictator of the German Nazi movement. He was born on April 20, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau. After a prior performance in elementary school, Adolf soon became rebellious and began failing in the Realschule, a college preparatory school. Following transfer to another school, he finally left formal education altogether in 1905. He refused to bow to the training of a regular job. He began his years of amateur painting, wandering in the woods, and dreaming of becoming a famous artist. In 1907, when his mother died, he moved to Vienna to enroll in the famed Academy of Fine Arts. However, he was not admitted. He is wandering through the streets of Vienna, living on an orphan's pension and the money he could earn by painting and selling picture postcards. It was during this time of his homeless being among the disordered circumstances of the old Hapsburg capital, that he first became fascinated by the immense possibility of political manipulation. He was impressed by the successes of the anti-Semitic, nationalist Christian-Socialist party of Vienna Mayor Karl Lueger and his propaganda organization (Website, Biography.com Hitler). Under Lueger's influence Hitler first developed the extreme anti-Semitism that were to remain central to his own beliefs and that of the Nazi party.
             In May 1913, in an attempt to avoid induction into the Austrian military service after he had failed to register for draft, Hitler slipped across the German border to Munich, only to be arrested and turned over to the Austrian police. He was able to persuade the authorities not to confine him for draft avoidance and presented himself for the draft physical examination, which he failed to pass. He returned to Munich, and after the outbreak of World War I a year later, he volunteered for action in the German army. During the war he fought on Germany's Western front with excellence but gained no promotion beyond the rank of corporal....

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