Isabell Montoya

Hitlers Childhood
Period 1

When someone references World War II most minds automatically think of

the man who caused this tragic period in our history. This man tortured and
killed so many innocent people and spat in their faces as he did so. This
infamous man is named Adolf Hitler. How did this man come to be the most
feared man from 1939-1945? How could a person earnestly believe that its
his right to decide who gets to walk the earth and who doesnt? surely he
had a corrupt childhood. Surely Jews must have personally wronged him for
him to despise them so much. Surely this is a mentally unstable man.
Unfortunately, a superior motive as to why he became the cruelest ruler of
all time was disappointingly lacking. He grew up with influences from the
arts, Vienna, and Austria.

Adolf Hitler was born in Braun au am Inn in Upper Austria on April 20th,
1889 to his parents Klara and Alois Hitler. He was baptized catholic. One
might think that Hitler wished to lead from a young age but that isnt the
case. What he really loved was art. His father was greatly disapproving of
this idea as shown by this quote in hilters biography Mein Kampf my father
forbade me to entertain any hopes of taking up the art of painting as a

profession. I went a step further and declared that I would not study anything
else. He was beginning to rebel against the authority of his father. Hitler
then applied to the Vienna academy of arts and was rejected as cited on
ushm.m.org.

In 1898 his family moved to Linz, the capital or Austria. With this change
Hitler speaks of himself in mein kampf I think an inborn talent for speaking
now began to develop and take shape during the more or less strenuous
arguments which I used to have with my comrades. He is speaking of the
followers he had at school. He even speaks of himself as a ringleader. Soon
after Hitler wrote it was at this period that I first began to have ideals of my
own. So with this move of his he truly begins to mature and as he said have
his own thoughts and opinions. This characteristic will play a large role in
who he came to be.

Hitlers mother died of breast cancer in 1907. At that point he decided to

move to Vienna. He lived there from 1908-1913. While living there he was
greatly influenced by two political movements: The German racist nationalist
movement and Karl lueger, mayor of Vienna. German nationalism is the idea
the asserts that Germans are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of
Germans. As far as Karl Lueger the same website states Lueger promoted
an anti-Semitism that was more practical and organizational than
ideological. Hitler drew this ideology in large part from upper Austria Pan-

German politician Georg von Shonerer, but his strategy and tactics from
Lueger.

With all the information listed Hitlers childhood becomes much more clear.
How that boy became the man behind the mustache is still a mystery to me.
As a child he had depth, he wasnt always thought of as the feared
chancellor of Germany, but as an artistic boy who knew just what to say.

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www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007430
("AdolfHitler:EarlyYears,18891913")

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