Term Papers on Adolf Hitler

Term Paper Title	Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler

     When one thinks of Hitler, one usually thinks of all the innocent people that he ordered to be slaughtered.  Over six million Jews were killed on his command. When one thinks about Hitler, one probably doesn’t think about his childhood. Hitler had a very rough and  harsh upbringing. His father was a drunk, and he moved a lot when he was a child. Not many people thought Hitler would amount to anything.  He was lonely.  He thought that all of the Jewish people had nice houses, food and slept in comfortable beds
at night.
     Hitler's father worked as a customs officer. He was married to Klara Polzl, which
happened to be his third wife and Hitler's mother.  By the time Hitler was five years old,  his family had moved several times before settling in the neighborhood of Linz in northern Austria. At the age of six, Hitler's father retired. His father was a drunk spending a lot of time at the taverns.  He was very unsympathetic.  His dad died at a tavern while drinking some wine when Hitler was not quite fourteen years of age, leaving behind a wife and many kids.
     Hitler's problems with his father probably arose from his lack of performance at  school.  One teacher thought he had talent but no self-discipline.   Hitler thoughthe was a misunderstood, lonely genius among pretty Philistines.
     Hitler's mother trusted his dreams enough to let him go off at the age of 16 to become an artist.  He still lived in the neighborhood of Linz,  hanging around,  drawing,  reading and  listening to Richard Wagner's music.  Hitler loved Wagner's operas.  Hitler saw himself in Wager. He saw Wagner as another neglected genius whose belief in himself led him to triumph.
     Hitler left Linz in 1907 to go to the empire's capital, Vienna.  He hoped to become
a student at the Academy of Fine Arts.   He was rejected.  Hitler couldn't be accepted to the Academy do his second love, architecture, because he didn't have a leaving school certificate.   After only three months in Vienna, Hitler's mother died.  The doctor said ,  " I have never seen a young man so crushed by anguish and filled with grief."
     After his mother died, Hitler went into a five-year period(1908-13) where life was miserable and lonely.  Even though he had an inheritance and an orphan's pension, he could not break into the society in which he believed and wanted to fit in.  If he mixed with anyone, it was at seedless taverns and beerhalls, not  artists or philosophers.
     Hitler continued to read in the libraries and believe that he was a genus.  Hitler tried to write a Wagnerian-style opera.   His dream was once again destroyed when he tried to get into the Academy.  Just like the last time, he was rejected.
     By the time 1909 come around, all of his money was gone.  With all of his money spent, Hitler could no longer go after his dream of art and reading full time.  He lived in the cheapest shelters and the few people he knew were equally down and out. He made his living selling his postcard paintings of Vienna and  doing odd jobs.  These years were the hardest for Hitler. These years were also the time in which Hitler began to hate the Jewish people. (Bradley 1-13)
     In Vienna the rich families were the aristocratic Jewish families.   They were prominent in the empire's economic life, among the professional classes and patrons of art, the one thing Hitler wanted. At the bottom were the newer Jewish immigrants from eastern parts of the empire. These poor Jewish people were trying to make a living in the big city just like Hitler.  It was a cliché in Vienna that the children of humble peddlers would turn out to be the bankers and industrialists. Then their children became the lawyers, doctors, artists and intellectuals. No wonder Hitler resented the Jewish people. He was half educated provincial with passionate belief in all things purely German.
     In Vienna there is nothing unusual about anti-Semitism. The city had a famous mayor, Karl Luegar, who was anti-Semite. But Karl Luegar's point of view on anti-Semitism was way different then Hitler's.  Luegar used ...

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