More than twelve million people were killed in concentration
camps, six million were Jewish. All of these horrifying events
were consequences of the evening, April 20, 1889, when the
one man responsible for all of this was born.
Adolf Hitler was born into a loving family of small
farmers and craftsmen. He had one half-sister, Angela, and
one half-brother, Alois, Jr. Hitler's mother loved him very
much and anyone could tell, because she showered him with
In his early school years, Adolf was a truly good student.
He even took singing lessons and sang in the choir at a
Benedictine monastery. He found the church festivals
fascinating. His enthusiasm for the church soon began to
fade, though. As his teen years approached, he began to
rebel against the church and the career plans that his father
had made. These plans were for him to become a civil
servant, just as he had been. Hitler loved art and wanted to
become a painter. He refused to go by his father's plans.
This was just one thing that him and his father did not get
along about. There really wasn't much they did agree on.
Sometimes Alois criticized and even struck his son.
Although they didn't get along very well, Adolf was
devastated at his father's death when he was a merely
thirteen years old. He even cried when he saw his body
Hitler was devoted to his mother and loved her deeply.
She was very kind to him and encouraged to be an artist, or
whatever else he decided to be. He even thought of himself
as his "mother's darling," and he carried her picture with him
In 1905, Hitler visited the country where he would later
become dictator. While he was there, as a pale and sickly
looking teenager, he stuck everyone as a shy and reserved
young man. After that, he spent a few months studying,
In October of 1907, he moved to Vienna, planning to
study art. He applied to the Academy of Fine
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