HISTORY 322 Lecture 8: Hitler
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His mother was a distant cousin of his father. Adolf was the first child to survive infancy: his father was very harsh, and had beaten his children and wife, which doesn"t explain how hitler"s life unfolded. He applied to the academy of fine arts in vienna and failed miserable: vienna embodied the tensions of the austro-hungarian empire, but was the major city in europe for these tensions. A lot of poor people moved to the city because they could not make a living in the country side: here, hitler is exposed to people in ways that influence him dramatically. There were intellectual influences on hitler and the development of his ideas during his time in vienna. One that hitler admired was georg ritter von sch nerer, who had the notion of german-national-socialism that would focus on german workers all over. Germany needs to provide for germans, he also wanted.
