Hitler's Early Life
Adolf Hitler was born in the year 1889 in an Austrian town called Braunau. Born to a family of peasants, Hitler was
smart, but lazy child. However, he was forced to leave high school due to a total academic failure. He soon went
to Vienna in attempt to gain admittance to the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Unfortunately, the art school thought
that Hitler lacked talent in drawing and in art. Thus, he was rejected from admittance. Later that same year, his mother
died of cancer. After his mother's death, Hitler went back to Vienna based on an orphan's pension and tried to be
admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts again. Again, he failed to be admitted. However, Hitler stayed in Vienna and
lived in a home for men with a bed. During those time to earn a living, Hitler painted postcards and sold them to Jewish
people and also to tourists.
Growing Hatred
Hitler's hatred in his early years was not targeted against the Jews in particular, but it was against the cruel world that
he lived in, a world that failed to recognize his intelligence and also mistreated him. During the times of hardship, Jews
were the people who actually helped to support him, especially his mother's doctor who bought many of his postcards
and gave him many presents. However, as he stayed in Vienna longer, his target of hatred began to focus more onto
the Jews. He began to believe that the Jews was the key to why the world was bad.
His hatred toward the Jews grew largely due to the numerous outside influences. Still in Vienna, he was influenced
by the German antisemitic nationalists and racists affected Austria. Most importantly, he was effected by the striking
racist remarks expressed in a series of pamphlets published by a monk called Ostara. The pamphlet announced the
idea of the monk who tried to establish a group of blond male masters when were produce pure Aryan offspring.
The males that were less pure will either be sterilized or fully eliminated. It was then where his ideas began to blossom.
New Direction
After moving to Munich Germany, the outbreak of World War I gave Hitler a new direction in life. He volunteered
for the Germany army in the List infantry regiment of the Bavarian army. In the army, he was labeled as a good soldier
and was awarded recognition for his bravery. After the German empire collapsed at the end of the war, Hitler was
back to where he started, a young man without an occupation. However, the army employed him to investigate the
radical political groups of the country. He was assigned to investigate the German Workers' Party. He decided to
join the group as a member and quickly gained control of it. It was then when he discovered his talent as a great orator.
That was the beginning of the rise of Adolf Hitler.