HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
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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
chancellor 15 years later.
He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austri ....
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.... his school hours with daydreams of becoming a painter.
His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When
his teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and
often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's
operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology.
Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he
studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's
death, when he was 1 ....
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