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HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the
story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in
history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's
He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German
descent. His father A ....
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.... eked out a
living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap postcards.
He often slept in parks and ate in free soup kitchens.
These humbling experiences inflamed his discontent. He hated Austria as
"a patchwork nation" and looked longingly across the border at energetic,
powerful Germany. He wrote, "I was convinced that the State [Austria] was
sure to obstruct every really great German and to support . . . everything
un-German. . . . I hated the motley collection [in Austria] of Czechs,
Ruthenians, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, and above all that ever-
present f ....
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