Hitlers+Childhood

=The First Years=

====Adolf Hitler was born April 20th 1889 in Gasthof zum Pommer, the fourth of Alois and Klara Hitler's six children. They moved to Kapuzinerstrasse Passu when Hitler was three. When Hitler was five they moved to Leonding. Hitler attended a nearby school called Fischlham. He was a very bright child though he spent much of his free time playing "Cowboys and Indians." He was fixated on war. It amazed him--the strategy, the weapons, the killing. This was very upsetting to his father. But, it was some of his father's fault. He had let him look at one of his picture books about the Franco-Prussian war. Of course when he was a child he never killed or hurt anyone, but it bothered his father all the same. Later in his book Mein Kampf (translated it means my struggle), he wrote, "It was not long before the great historic struggle had become one of my greatest spiritual experiences. From then on, I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any way connected with war or for that matter, soldiering."====

=Ages Six to Twelve=

He began primary school even though he had not attended kindergarden. Adolf was just getting used to a very new situation. His father had retired on a pension from the Austrian civil service and his mother had just given birth to her new son, Edmund. His mother was often preoccupied caring for Edmund. His father was very short tempered and would often lash out at Adolf's older half brother, Alois Jr. He would use harsh language and sometimes beatings because he was a very high ranking officer and was used to having orders followed. A year later Alois said that he had taken enough of this terrible treatment and ran away, never to be seen again. That meant since Adolf was the now the oldest that he would bear the blunt of his father's unhappiness. Also at this time, they moved again. This time off of the farm to the city of Lambach, Austria. The old Catholic Benedictine monastery in town was where Adolf attended school. The building was decorated with stone carvings and swastikas. He did very well in the school and even joined the boys' chior and was said to be a great singer. For about two years Adolf dreamed of becoming a priest himself. Everything was fairly normal until Adolf reached the age of nine. He was caught smoking a cigarette by one of the priests. He was not punished for normally he was a good student and one slip up isn't so bad. Later preists found Adolf with many books about fighting indians. As I said in the previous paragraph, he loved to play cowboys and indians especially with his new found friends. In 1898 Adolf's family moved once again to Leonding. When Adolf was eleven the Boer war broke out in Africa and again he was extremly interested. That year Adolf's younger brother, Edmund, died of measles. This had greatly saddened Adolf, especially since the cemetary was right next to their house. Adolf could see Edmund's grave from his window. There were even more pressures ahead. Adolf wanted to become an artist and his father greatly disapproved. He thought is was silly for his son to become an artist. He later said in //Mein Kampf// "I thought that once my father saw what little progress I was making at the [technical school] he would let me devote myself to the happiness I dreamed of."
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 * = //Mein Kampf// ||
 * = Interesting Facts About Hitler ||
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