
Your Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Great Spiritual Upheaval of Hitler
During his years in Vienna he seemed to always be on the brink of applying to the School of Architecture. His failure to graduate from high school would have severely hurt his chances. Hitler eked out his Vienna existence by working on to jobs, a snow shoveler, a railway porter, even a handyman. He also painted the equivalent of little stock photos that come with picture frames. Sometimes he earned some extra cash from drawing advertising posters. It was during this period of Hitler's life that he completed his self-education and developed his Nazi ideology. But it was in Vienna that Hitler delved into anti-Semitic literature, per his own description.
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