Why did Hitler change his last name?

Biography

Adolf Hitler is a famous political leader of Germany, whose activities are associated with heinous crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust. The founder of the Nazi party and the dictatorship of the Third Reich, the immorality of whose philosophy and political views are still widely discussed in society today.

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After Hitler managed to become the head of the German fascist state in 1934, he launched a large-scale operation to seize Europe and initiated the Second World War, which made him a “monster and a sadist” for Soviet citizens, and for many Germans a brilliant leader who changed people's lives for the better.

Childhood and youth

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the Austrian city of Braunau am Inn, located near the border with Germany. His parents, Alois and Klara Hitler, were peasants, but his father managed to break into the people and become a government official-customs officer, which allowed the family to live in decent conditions. “Nazi No. 1” was the third child in the family and dearly loved by his mother, whom he closely resembled in appearance. Later he had younger brothers Edmund and sister Paula, to whom the future German Fuhrer became very attached and looked after him all his life.

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Adolf's childhood years were spent in constant moving, caused by the peculiarities of his father's work, and changes in schools, where he did not show any special talents, but was still able to complete four classes of a real school in Steyr and received a certificate of education, in which good grades were only in drawing and physical education. During this period, his mother Clara Hitler died of cancer, which dealt a serious blow to the young man’s psyche, but he did not break down, and, having drawn up the necessary documents to receive a pension for himself and his sister Paula, moved to Vienna and set out on the path to adulthood.

At first he tried to enter the Art Academy, as he had extraordinary talent and a craving for fine art, but failed the entrance exams. The next few years, Adolf Hitler's biography was filled with poverty, vagrancy, odd jobs, constant moving from place to place, and sleeping under city bridges. All this time, he did not inform either his family or friends about his location, because he was afraid of being drafted into the army, where he would have to serve together with the Jews, for whom he felt deep hatred.

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At the age of 24, Hitler moved to Munich, where he encountered the First World War, which made him very happy. He immediately volunteered for the Bavarian Army, in whose ranks he took part in many battles. He took the defeat of Germany in the First World War very painfully and categorically blamed politicians for it. Against this background, he engaged in large-scale propaganda work, which allowed him to get into the political movement of the People's Workers' Party, which he skillfully turned into a Nazi one.

Who was Adolf Hitler's grandfather?

The question of Hitler's own grandfather is also controversial. To understand the legitimacy of Hitler having this particular surname, it is necessary to establish exactly who Alois’s father was. The versions here are different, because Maria Anna led a rather dissolute lifestyle in her youth, so it is impossible to be 100% sure who is Adolf’s grandfather. The most likely option is that Alois’s father should be recognized as the poor miller Johann Georg Hiedler (by the way, this is the most correct spelling of this surname). This man did not have his own home and lived in poverty all his life. According to the testimony of some people, during the same period, Maria Anna could also meet with Johann Georg’s brother, Nepomuk Güttler, who was 15 years younger. But this option is unlikely, because even Gidler himself recognized his paternity. If Alois’s father is still not Hidler, but Nepomuk, then Hitler’s real name could be Güttler.

Path to power

Having become the head of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler gradually began to make his way deeper and deeper to the political heights and in 1923 he organized the Beer Hall Putsch. Enlisting the support of 5 thousand stormtroopers, he burst into a beer bar where a meeting of the leaders of the General Staff was taking place and announced the overthrow of traitors in the Berlin government. On November 9, 1923, the Nazi putsch headed towards the ministry to seize power, but was intercepted by police units who used firearms to disperse the Nazis.

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In March 1924, Adolf Hitler, as the organizer of the putsch, was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 5 years in prison. But the Nazi dictator spent only 9 months in prison - on December 20, 1924, for unknown reasons, he was released.

Immediately after his liberation, Hitler revived the Nazi party NSDAP and transformed it, with the help of Gregor Strasser, into a national political force. During that period, he managed to establish close ties with the German generals, as well as establish contact with large industrial magnates.

At the same time, Adolf Hitler wrote his work “My Struggle” (“Mein Kampf”), in which he outlined his autobiography and the idea of ​​National Sociolism. In 1930, the political leader of the Nazis became the Supreme Commander of the Storm Troops (SA), and in 1932 he tried to gain the post of Reich Chancellor. To do this, he had to renounce his Austrian citizenship and become a German citizen, and also enlist the support of the Allies.

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The first time, Hitler failed to win the elections, in which Kurt von Schleicher was ahead of him. A year later, German President Paul von Hindenburg, under Nazi pressure, dismissed the victorious von Schleicher and appointed Hitler in his place.

This appointment did not cover all the hopes of the Nazi leader, since power over Germany continued to remain in the hands of the Reichstag, and its powers included only the leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers, which had yet to be created.

In just 1.5 years, Adolf Hitler managed to remove all obstacles in the form of the President of Germany and the Reichstag from his path and become an unlimited dictator. From that moment on, oppression of Jews and Gypsies began in the country, trade unions were closed and the “Hitler era” began, which during the 10 years of his rule was completely saturated with human blood.

Hitler, Adolf

(1889-1945) Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, Chairman (Führer) of the National Socialist Party of Germany (NSDAP) from 1921 to 1945
Adolf Schicklgruber (this is Hitler’s real name) was born on April 20, 1889 in the small Austrian city of Braunau. His father, a minor customs official, died when his son was 14 years old. Adolf somehow finished school and in 1903 attempted to enter the Vienna Academy of Arts, but failed and began to earn his living by drawing advertisements and greeting cards. Having buried his mother in 1907, the young artist moved to Vienna and, after a second failure to enter the Academy, began to lead the life of a free artist.

At the same time, he developed an interest in politics and began attending various meetings of right-wing parties. Here he becomes acquainted with the then fashionable concept of pan-Germanism, which proclaimed the dominance of the German nation, and becomes its staunch supporter.

After the outbreak of World War I, Adolf Hitler receives a summons to join the Austrian army, but is declared unfit. Then he leaves for Germany and joins the army as a volunteer. At the front, he receives the rank of corporal and the Iron Cross, first class.

In 1919, Adolf Hitler was demobilized. In the fall of 1919, he joined the NSDAP, and from that time his political career began. He certainly possessed many of the qualities of an outstanding leader. Fanatically devoted to his ideas, he knew how to find contact with the audience and “ignite” them with emotional speeches.

Adolf Hitler had a unique ability to arouse unhealthy instincts among the masses and skillfully directed people's discontent against those whom he considered “enemies of the German nation.” This is how he declared communists, social democrats and even entire countries, in particular the victorious powers - England, France and Bolshevik Russia.

In June 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader (Führer) of the NSDAP, and from that time on, a cult of the “great leader” began to be created around him. On November 8-9, 1923, Hitler and his supporters attempted a coup. It ended in failure, and Adolf Hitler ended up in prison. Although he received a sentence of five years, he spent only nine months in prison. In conclusion, he wrote the first volume of the book Mein Kampf (My Struggle).

In December 1924, Adolf Hitler was released from prison and immediately became involved in active political activities. By 1932, his party received a parliamentary majority. On January 30, 1933, German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Reich Chancellor. After Hindenburg's death in 1934, Adolf Hitler became President, Chancellor and Supreme Commander, combining all positions. Thus began the darkest chapter in German history - the fascist dictatorship.

Adolf Hitler's program consisted of two parts - the defeat of internal enemies and the conquest of world domination. He began with the extermination of political opponents - communists, social democrats and everyone who opposed his party. All parties except the NSDAP were banned,

Adolf Hitler's first major act was the persecution of Jews. On November 9-10, 1938, a wave of Jewish pogroms swept across Germany. Following this, Jews lost all their civil rights. This is how Hitler declared the “racial cleansing” of Germany.

At the same time, preparations for war began. Adolf Hitler repeatedly stated that he wanted not just war, but the extermination of other peoples, which he considered “inferior.” First, he annexed Austria and the Czech Republic to Germany, and in August 1939 he began World War II by capturing Poland. By the summer of 1940, Germany had conquered most of Western Europe.

On June 22, 1941, Germany and its allies attacked the USSR. This was Adolf Hitler's biggest miscalculation and ultimately caused the collapse of the entire Nazi state. Just four years later it collapsed under the blows of the Red Army and its allies.

Adolf Hitler preferred death to surrender: he bit through an ampoule of poison and at the same time shot himself in the temple with a pistol. His body was burned, and only from the remains it was determined that they belonged to Hitler.

In his way of thinking and the nature of his actions, he was a product of his era. Historians can explain how and why a free artist became the “leader of the nation.” But there is and cannot be an excuse for the troubles and suffering that this leader brought to humanity.

Nazism and war

In 1934, Hitler gained power over Germany, where the total Nazi regime immediately began, the ideology of which was the only true one. Having become the ruler of Germany, the Nazi leader immediately revealed his true face and began major foreign policy actions. He is rapidly creating the Wehrmacht and restoring aviation and tank forces, as well as long-range artillery. Contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany seizes the Rhineland, and then Czechoslovakia and Austria.

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At the same time, he carried out a purge in his ranks - the dictator organized the so-called “Night of the Long Knives,” when all prominent Nazis who posed a threat to Hitler’s absolute power were destroyed. Having given himself the title of supreme leader of the Third Reich, the Fuhrer created the Gestapo police and a system of concentration camps where he imprisoned all “undesirable elements,” namely Jews, gypsies, political opponents, and later prisoners of war.

The basis of Adolf Hitler's domestic policy was the ideology of racial discrimination and the superiority of indigenous Aryans over other peoples. His goal was to become the only leader of the whole world, in which the Slavs were to become “elite” slaves, and the lower races, to which he included Jews and Gypsies, were completely destroyed. Along with massive crimes against humanity, the ruler of Germany developed a similar foreign policy, deciding to take over the entire world.

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In April 1939, Hitler approved a plan to attack Poland, which was defeated in September of the same year. Next, the Germans occupied Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and broke through the French front. In the spring of 1941, Hitler captured Greece and Yugoslavia, and on June 22 attacked the USSR, then led by Joseph Stalin.

In 1943, the Red Army launched a large-scale offensive against the Germans, thanks to which in 1945 World War II entered the territory of the Reich, which completely drove the Fuhrer crazy. He sent pensioners, teenagers and disabled people to fight the Red Army soldiers, ordering the soldiers to stand to death, while he himself hid in the “bunker” and watched what was happening from the side.

The secret of Hitler's nationality

Adherents of the myth about the Jewish origin of the leader of Nazi Germany operate with a lot of facts, some of which can be classified as fiction. However, these rumors really have to be based on something. The behavior of the Fuhrer, who prevented the publication of his pedigree after the coming of power and even destroyed documents, is also suspicious. Back in 1928, Berlin police proved that Adolf Hitler's grandfather was a Jew. Harvard researchers came to the same conclusion in 1943.

What is Klara Hitler's nationality? Analysts believe that Hitler had Jewish blood on his father’s side, but only syphilis could be transmitted on his mother’s side, which caused the death of many babies, as well as Clara’s brothers and sisters. Adolf's godfather and family doctor was a Jew. Even if we ignore questions of nationality, the leader of Nazi Germany was born as a result of incest. There is information that his sister Ida had a mental illness, his aunt suffered from diabetes and was born hunchbacked, and the son of another aunt was a hunchback with speech impediments.

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Holocaust and death camps

With the coming to power of Adolf Hitler, a whole complex of death camps and concentration camps was created in Germany, Poland and Austria, the first of which was created in 1933 near Munich. It is known that there were more than 42 thousand such camps, in which millions of people died under torture. These specially equipped centers were intended for genocide and terror both against prisoners of war and over the local population, which included the disabled, women and children.

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The largest Hitler “death factories” were “Auschwitz”, “Majdanek”, “Buchenwald”, “Treblinka”, in which people who dissented from Hitler were subjected to inhuman torture and “experiments” with poisons, incendiary mixtures, gas, which in 80% of cases resulted in to the painful death of people. All death camps were created with the aim of “cleansing” the entire world population of anti-fascists, inferior races, which for Hitler were Jews and Gypsies, ordinary criminals and simply undesirable “elements” for the German leader.

The symbol of Hitler’s ruthlessness and fascism was the Polish city of Auschwitz, where the most terrible death conveyors were built, where more than 20 thousand people were exterminated every day. This is one of the most terrible places on Earth, which became the center of the extermination of Jews - they died there in “gas” chambers immediately after arrival, even without registration and identification. The Auschwitz camp (Auschwitz) became a tragic symbol of the Holocaust - the mass destruction of the Jewish nation, which is recognized as the largest genocide of the 20th century.

Briefly about Hitler's political career

After the end of the war, Adolf Hitler focused entirely on his political career. In 1923, he staged the so-called Beer Hall Putsch and attempted to overthrow the German government. The putsch ended in failure, and Hitler was sentenced to five prison codes, but for some reason he was released after nine months.

In 1925, he changed his citizenship and became a full citizen of Germany.

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Adolf Hitler revived the Nazi party and became its leader, in 1930 he received the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Storm Troops, and in 1933 - Reich Chancellor of Germany. Over the next year, he managed to take away all powers from both the president and the Reichstag, and become the sole ruler of Germany.

And it was here that Hitler was able, without hiding, to throw out all his anger. In the summer of 1934, he staged the “Night of the Long Knives” and destroyed all high-ranking Nazis whom he considered a threat to his power. He created the Gestapo and concentration camps into which he rounded up Jews, Gypsies, and later prisoners of war.

All these years, Hitler collected photographs, national things and other artifacts that belonged to Jews, so that they would later become exhibits of the “Museum of the Destroyed Race,” which he wanted to organize.

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He called himself a leader and wanted to become the only ruler in the world, of course, having first captured this entire world. In this case, the Aryans would be the only worthy race, which would be served by the Slavs, and other peoples, especially Jews and Gypsies, would be destroyed.

Let us omit the details of the monstrous massacre unleashed by Hitler (I mean World War II) - this is a separate story. I will only say that, seeing how the German army was retreating under the onslaught of Soviet troops and their allies, Hitler became completely uncontrollable. He frantically tried to rectify the situation and ordered everyone who could not fight normally - old people, disabled people, children - to be sent to the front.

Why did Hitler hate Jews?

There are several versions of why Adolf Hitler hated the Jews so much, whom he tried to “wipe off the face of the earth.” Historians who have studied the personality of the “bloody” dictator put forward several theories, each of which could be true.

The first and most plausible version is considered to be the “racial policy” of the German dictator, who considered only native Germans as people. In this regard, he divided all nations into three parts - the Aryans, who were supposed to rule the world, the Slavs, who in his ideology were assigned the role of slaves, and the Jews, whom Hitler planned to completely destroy.

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Economic motives for the Holocaust cannot be ruled out either, since at that time Germany was in a critical state economically, and the Jews had profitable enterprises and banking institutions, which Hitler took from them after being sent to concentration camps.

There is also a version that Hitler exterminated the Jewish nation in order to maintain the morale of his army. He assigned Jews and Gypsies the role of victims, whom he handed over to be torn to pieces so that the Nazis could enjoy human blood, which, in the opinion of the leader of the Third Reich, should have set them up for victory.

Why did Hitler change his last name?

We need to put all the dots on this issue. The well-known Adolf Hitler NEVER changed his last name. Adolf Hitler never bore the surname Schickelgruber.

In fact, the Austrian surname Schickelgruber belonged to Hitler's paternal grandmother. This is not the most euphonious surname. "Schickl" colloquially means "shit" or "dirt". The word "Gruber" is "pit". There is a version that Schickl in one of the Austrian dialects means the same as the usual German word Scheisse, so Schicklgruber means a person who cleans out cesspools.

The family surname Hitler had many interchangeable variations. Some of the common differences were - Hitler, Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler and Hittler. Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname on January 7, 1877 to "Hitler", at the age of 5. And for his son Adolf, this was the only form of the surname that he used throughout his life.

Alois was born on June 7, 1837 to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant woman Maria Schicklgruber (the village of Strones, Döllersheim parish, Waldviertel, northwestern Lower Austria). Johann Georg Hiedler married Maria when Alois was 5 years old. That's when the last name changed.

At the age of 10, Alois was sent to live with his uncle, Johann Nepomuk Gidler, in the nearby village of Spital (part of Weitra). At the age of 13, he left the farm and went to Vienna, where he worked as a shoemaker. At the age of 18, in response to the Austrian government's call for civil service applicants for rural residents, Alois joined the Border Guard (Customs Service) of the Austrian Ministry of Finance in 1855.

Hitler is short for Huetteler. Huette is a hut (little house), so Huetteler is a hut builder.

Several interesting facts related to the name Hitler and the personality of Adolf Hitler

• Hitler had chronic flatulence and took 28 different drugs to combat it.
• During the First World War, a British soldier spared the life of a wounded German, Adolf Hitler.
• Hitler was saved from drowning when he was 4 years old.
• As a child, Hitler wanted to become a priest.
• Hitler, while in prison, wrote a letter to a dealership in which he asked for a loan to buy a car.
• Hitler never learned to drive. However, he led the Volkswagen car development team.
• During Hitler's reign, his book “Mein Kampf” was given free of charge as a gift to every newlywed.
• In 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud lived several miles apart in Vienna, and were regulars at the same coffee shops.
• In 1938, Hitler was TIME magazine's Man of the Year.
• In 1939, Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
• Hitler planned to collect a lot of Jewish artifacts in order to build a “Museum of an Extinct Race” after the war.
• The German WW1 officer who recommended Hitler for the Iron Cross was Jewish. He was later arrested and then released by the SS as soon as they discovered this fact of his action.
• May 1st is the date on which Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden were declared dead.
• Hitler killed his dog with a cyanide capsule. He also shot five of her puppies and buried them with their mother.
• Before the Holocaust, Hitler made an offer to the United States, Great Britain and many other countries to accept Jewish refugees. But they refused. The only exception was Japan, a country that accepted Jewish refugees.
• The American Secret Service tried to fuel Hitler's food with female hormones in order to feminize him.
• Hitler suffered from ailurophobia - fear of cats.
• Hitler thought he was an attractive man and used this as political capital. The German people did not know about the existence of Eva Braun until the end of the war.
• Hitler married Eva Braun less than 40 hours before their deaths.
• Hitler himself was never elected by the people. He lost the presidential election, but the Nazis formed a coalition that won enough seats to claim the chancellorship for Hitler.
• In 1939, Adolf Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler (later Stewart-Houston), wrote the article "Why I Hate My Uncle."

In 1935, the New York telephone directory in the United States listed 1,024 subscribers with the surname "Hitler". Ten years later there were none in the directory. Where did they all go? They probably changed their last name.

There are still Hitlers living in Southern Ohio. But they've been there since the early 1800s. There is a road named after Hitler in southern Ohio, named after a highly respected family that bore the name Hitler long before the Nazi era (in the 19th century). In Ohio, there is not only Hitler Road, but also the Hitler Ludwig Cemetery, and even a chapel called Hitler Ludwig Chapel. There is also Hitler Pond in Vicinty.

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Personal life

The personal life of Adolf Hitler in modern history has no confirmed facts and is filled with a lot of speculation. It is known that the German Fuhrer was never officially married and had no recognized children. Moreover, despite his rather unattractive appearance, he was the favorite of the entire female population of the country, who played an important role in his life. Historians claim that “Nazi No. 1” knew how to influence people hypnotically.

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With his speeches and cultured manners, he charmed the opposite sex, whose representatives began to recklessly love the leader, which forced the ladies to do the impossible for him. Hitler's mistresses were mostly married ladies who idolized him and considered him an outstanding person.

In 1929, the dictator met Eva Braun, who conquered Hitler with her appearance and cheerful disposition. During the years of living with the Fuhrer, the girl twice tried to commit suicide because of the loving nature of her common-law husband, who openly flirted with the women he liked.

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In 2012, US citizen Werner Schmedt declared that he was the legitimate son of Hitler and his young niece Geli Ruabal, who, according to historians, was killed by the dictator in a fit of jealousy. He provided family photos in which the Fuhrer of the Third Reich and Geli Ruabal stand in an embrace. Also, Hitler’s possible son presented his birth certificate, in which in the data column about the parents there are only the initials “G” and “R”, which was done allegedly for the purpose of conspiracy.

According to the Fuhrer's son, after the death of Geli Ruabal, nannies from Austria and Germany were involved in his upbringing, but his father constantly visited him. In 1940, Schmedt last saw Hitler, who promised him if he won the Second World War he would give him the whole world. But since events did not unfold according to Hitler’s plan, Werner had to hide his origin and place of residence from everyone for a long time.

Other relatives

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In the family of Clara Hitler and Alois, not only their own children were brought up, but also his son Alois Hitler Jr. and daughter Angela Hitler from Fanny Matzelsberger. All the children were raised by Clara. At the age of fourteen, Alois Jr. ran away from home due to a conflict with his father. After this, the tyranny of his father was directed towards Adolf. The future dictator thought about running away from home at the age of eleven. Angela (pictured below with her husband), Adolf's older half-sister, lived with the family until 1903. In 1903, she became the wife of Leo Raubal, a tax inspector. From him she gave birth to a son, Leo, and daughters, Geli and Elfrida.

It is obvious that Angela had a good relationship with her half-brother. She moved to the capital of Austria and after the First World War, she began working as a manager. For ten long years she knew absolutely nothing about Adolf's life, but in 1919 he established contact with his half-sister. In 1928 (eighteen years after the death of her first husband) she moved to the Berghof, where she became Hitler's housekeeper. Some researchers believe that Adolf had sexual relations with his niece Geli, who committed suicide in 1931.

Angela herself did not approve of her stepbrother’s relationship with Eva Braun. Their relationship finally deteriorated when, in 1935, Hitler gave Angela a day to pack her bags. He accused the woman of helping Goering acquire land opposite his site in Berchtesgaden. Hitler finally broke off his warm relationship with Angela. He didn't even attend her wedding. In 1936, Angela Hitler married Martin Hammich, a German architect and director of a building school. During World War II, the Fuhrer again contacted his sister. She was an intermediary in his communication with other family members.

Death

On April 30, 1945, when Hitler's house in Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet army, "Nazi No. 1" admitted defeat and decided to commit suicide. There are several versions of how Adolf Hitler died: some historians claim that the German dictator drank potassium cyanide, while others do not rule out that he shot himself. Along with the head of Germany, his common-law wife Eva Braun, with whom he lived for more than 15 years, also died.

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It is reported that the bodies of the couple were burned in front of the bunker, which was the dictator's requirement before his death. Later, the remains of Hitler's body were found by a group of the Red Army Guard - to this day, only dentures and part of the Nazi leader's skull with a bullet entry hole have survived, which are still stored in Russian archives.

Hitler. Education

As a six-year-old boy, Adolf began studying at a simple school, where all local children received their primary education. But his mother, being a religious woman, really wanted her son to become a priest, so two years later she transferred Adolf to a parish school. But her dream was not destined to come true, because after some time he was expelled for inappropriate behavior, more precisely, for smoking in the garden of the monastery.

In subsequent years, Adolf Hitler changed several more schools in different cities, but still eventually received a certificate of education, which included an A in drawing. And this is no coincidence, Adolf had a talent for drawing and he really wanted to enter the art academy.

When Hitler was 18 years old, he went to Vienna to fulfill his dream, but failed the entrance exams. After all, in addition to drawing, it was necessary to know other school disciplines, and Adolf was rather bad at this.

Having failed his exams, Adolf, with a complex, blamed everyone but himself. He said that he was the most worthy applicant, but he was not appreciated, and all the teachers at the academy were stupid.

Soon, in the winter of 1908, his mother died of cancer, which he took very seriously. He couldn’t hope for his father’s help; his mother died, so Adolf was forced to survive on his own. He made money by selling his drawings, but it was very little money, which was not enough for a decent life. He began to look careless - uncut and unshaven, in dirty clothes hanging out.

It is clear that the failures embittered Adolf even more, who began to hate everyone even more, especially Jews. And this despite the fact that among his friends there were Jews, and his godfather was also a representative of this nation.

Perhaps he connected, as we mentioned earlier, this with his father’s Jewish roots and, believing that it was this blood that was to blame for all his failures, he transferred this hatred to all Jews. And he didn’t want to hear about Marxists, so in his obviously unhealthy head he tied it all together and said that Jews are rats and parasites, who, together with the Marxists, want to destroy everyone.

But there is another version. In those years in Germany there were many very rich Jews who headed some kind of business or were at the head of banks. It was them that Hitler wanted to eliminate.

It was at this time that Hitler had a dream - to make Germany a great power; of course, he should be at the head of the country.

At the end of the winter of 1914, Adolf Hitler was summoned to Austria, where he was a citizen, where he underwent a medical examination and was declared unfit for military service. But when the First World War began, he volunteered to go to the front.

Interesting fact. According to fellow soldiers, at this time Hitler had a bushy mustache, which he shaved off on the orders of his superiors, since it interfered with putting on a gas mask. As a result, the “Hitler mustache” familiar to all of us remained.