Here his life continues much as before, until world events changed the course of Hitler’s life.Īt the outbreak of the First World War, Hitler volunteers for service in the German army and joined the 16 th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. This move is possible in part due to his inheritance of a small legacy from his father’s estate.

He sells postcards which he’s drawn, of famous sights, and undertakes a series of menial jobs,to earn money.ĭuring this period of poverty, Hitler engages in much political activity, attending meetings, absorbing political newspapers and literature.įaced with military service for the Habsburg Empire, Hitler takes action to evade this by moving to Munich in Southern Germany. Without any means of money, Hitler struggles to survive in Vienna, living in a men’s hostel. His disappointment is compounded by his failure to also get into the Vienna School of Architecture due to his inability to provide a school leaving certificate. Hitler moves to Vienna with the aim of attending the Vienna Academy of Art, but his application is rejected. He attends art school and regards himself as an artist, absorbing diverse cultural influences, the opera, theatre, reading and drawing. The death of his father when Adolf was 13, releases the pressure on him to get a job working for the civil service, Adolf is able to pursue his preferred choice of study, that of art. Hitler’s mother, Klara, is of a more compassionate nature, adoring and indulging her son.Īt the age of six Adolf attends school and, while clearly intelligent, he is uninterested in formal education, eventually leaving with a poor educational record of achievement. His father, Alois, regarded as strict and distant, becomes a customs official and expects Adolf to follow a career into the civil service. His parents’ families are both of poor peasant backgrounds. The key events in Hitler’s life, from his childhood in Austria to his suicide in the bunker in Berlin.Īdolf Hitler is born on April 20 th in Braunau am Inn in the empire of Austria-Hungary. Photos by Heinrich Hoffmann / German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons

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