Who was Adolf Hitler ?Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and became Chancellor of Germany.

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Who was Adolf Hitler ?

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and became Chancellor of Germany. Later he succeeded on becoming a dictator of Germany. A dictator is someone who has absolute power to run a country. The German people believed that he was their savoir. To get people to believe his ideas, he created propaganda.

His family

His father was Alois Hitler. He was very strict and used to beat his son. His mother Klara Hitler was very nice and tended to spoil her son. Adolf had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. They all died of diseases except for Adolf and his sister Paula who survived to become adults.

His father died when Adolf was 13. His father was a senior customs official and wanted his son to do well in life.

His background

He was born in Branau in Austria and was very popular at his school. He has always been a top student but when he transferred to another school, his grades started to slip, he was doing very badly and had less friends. The only subjects he was interested in were history and art. At the age of 20 he dropped out of school because he failed a whole year and had to retake it again but he did not want to. He moved to Vienna and applied for Vienna Academy of Arts but got rejected twice.

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His Relationships

When Hitler wanted some peace, he rented a house on the side of a mountain and had wonderful views of the surrounding area. He employed his half sister, Angela Raubel to be housekeeper and she moved in with her daughter Geli who was 20 years old. Adolf had fallen in love with his niece and lived with her for two years. Geli had started to feel that Hitler was controlling her life and was unfaithful to her. She said she wanted to spend some time in Vienna when Hitler was off to Hamburg but he did ...

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