Adolf Hitler wasn't always a cold-hearted dictator. He, believe it or not, was a regular little boy who rose to a monster. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunua, Austria. He was the fourth child of Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. His father was a very strict man and demanded the highest respect from his children. He enforced this with the occasional slap upside the head. I think this is partially what drove him to insanity. The other part, I think, comes from his mother. His mother was overprotective of him and did nothing but shower him with love. To a certain extent, that can make you go crazy!
             The infant Hitler lived in his hometown until the age of three. At this point his family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. The family moved once more after the birth of his brother Edmund. They were now located on a farm in a town 30 miles southwest of Linz. There, his sister, Paula, was born. That made the 5th full-blooded sibling. He also had two half siblings from his father's previous two marriages.
             As a child, Adolf wanted to be a priest. For a portion of his life, he lived across the street from a large Benedictine monastery. By the beginning of a new century (1900) Hitler started to paint. He became a great artist. As a child he flipped flopped what he wanted to be when he grew up. He wound up going to the school that his fathers choose. He was enrolled in the Realschule. He did not do well there.
             In the year 1903 Alois Hitler died. He suffered from a pleural hemorrhage. Approximately two and a half years later he dropped out of school. This was partially because he suffered from lung infections and partially because of the result of poor schoolwork. Only four years after the death of his father, his mother died. She died on December 21, 1907. She had developed terminal breast cancer and after being treated by a Jewish doctor.
             Hitler then spent six years in Vienna virtual...