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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, the 20th century’s most powerful and greatest dictator was born in Austria in 1889 to Klara and Alois Hitler. Hitler’s father had a respectable job and so he had a comfortable childhood. Hitler’s career plans different widely from his Father’s thoughts and that’s why he had to go to a school called Realschule and was not quite successful there because he wanted to study art and not engineering and during this time period Hitler developed his personality. He developed his great oratory skills in discussions held among students in Realshule, he developed distrust towards the Ruling family, he developed this idea of anti-Semitism and developed a strong sense of German nationalism and somehow his mind got plagued with racism and superiority of his Aryan race.

After the demise of his parents at an early age, Hitler’s character altogether suddenly changed towards a more playing and dreaming character which was non-serious about studies and future and he also got rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine arts which was his dream and finally one day he ran out of his inherited funds and ended up in a homeless shelter and merely continued his studies to qualify for the Orphan grant.

He was exposed to extreme political ideas such as that of Lanz von Liebenfels who published a weekly periodical about the superiority of an ill-defined Aryan race which also included the Germans in it and the same time he developed hatred towards Socialism and began to equate it with Jews.

In the early 1910s, Hitler’s life improved after he started selling postcards and producing replicas of famous paintings. He debated ideas with others in the hostel in which he lived, developing the beginnings of his public speaking style.

The sudden clash in Europe which brought about the World War I gave Hitler a unique opportunity to rise to power. Low on cash, Hitler applied to volunteer in War the war broke out. He volunteered for a Bavarian unit in the German army and served the...