chool in the village of Fischlham. In 1895, the family settled down in the village of Leonding, on the south of Linz. At the age of eleven, Hitler was decided to go to high school at Linz.
             In this period young Adolf was inspired by a book about the Franco-German War of 1870-71, which had stimulated his enthusiasm. gIt consisted of two issues of an illustrated periodical from those years,h‡@ He described in Mein Kampf (My Struggle, Hitlerfs autobiography), gwhich now became my favorite reading matter. It was not long before the great heroic struggle had become my greatest inner experience. From then on I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any way connected with war or, for that matter, with soldiering.h This was the first time that Hitler developed a general concept about wars. At this time, his talent in drawing also came out.
             Alois Hitler wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant. But this was the last thing in the world Adolf would dream to be. And he decided to be an artist: gI wanted to become a painter and no power in the world could make me a civil servantcYet, strange as it may seem, with the passing years I became more and more interested in architecture.h He believed that he had a talent for drawing, and for architecture, too, but he knew that Alois would never give him professional training in this direction.
             Hitler stopped studying. He thought th
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