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Adolf Hitler Part 1: Birth of a Führer

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Hitler's Life Without Much of an Ancher

Hitler's mother died in september 19 seven. He really wanted to become an artist, and so he asked his mother for money to go to vienna - but failed the exam. In those next five years in vienna were the years when he painted water colors and sold them on the street. Incidentally, he teamed up with a friend of his who also painted. And hitler did the buildings, and the friend did the human figures in the water colors, and he sold them is postcards. They lived in a flop house. Sometimes in the summer, he slept on the park bench. But he had life without much of an ancher.

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