In the days of the depression, countries needed strong leaders. But very few countries were
acctually able to obtain such skill. But one man stepped forward, and he turned Germany's
economy completely around casuing it to be the first to escape the depression. Hitler was this
awesome icon, whom saved Germany and was loved by all of Germany in return. Almost everyone
knows of his atrocities during World War Two, but few know why he was able to do this. Hitler's
complex childhood and even more so complex adult hood caused his choices to be erratic and by
in far misinformed. Perhaps we should take a look into his life. Starting with his childhood.
A young catholic school boy lives with his parents and only sister in the country side of
Austria. Noone ever expected what he was to do with his life. Adolf was born to Alois
Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler in Braunau on April 29th 1889. He had two other siblings, one of
whom died at birth, the other not very long after. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth,
and Klara was simply a housewife. Hitler had a very stable childhood, even though his father was
quite strict. But still his childhood was not as innocent as it may have seemed.
When Hitler was 3, his family moved to Germany and lived on the Germanic bank of the Inn
river. Soon after, his family moved near a Benedictine monestary, which had a Swastika on it's coat
of arms. This is where it is believed he had taken the symbol for use in his Nazi flag. In 1903, Alois
died after suffering a pleural hemorrhage, and Klara developed terminal breast cancer three years
later. Hitler suffered an infection of the lung aswell, he blamed his father, or rather the jewish in his
father, for this and most of his problems. Hitler would also constantly read anything he could get his
hands on, pamphlets, books, magazines, and would event sit in on parliment meetings. He even
went to th...