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Early Years: Birth of a Führer

Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

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The Curveball to Hitler's Plans

Adolf Hitler wanted to become an artist, and so he asked his mother for money to go to Vienna in 1907. He took the exam, he failed the exam, his mother died in September, so Hitler was lost. In 18 years old, and orphaned, Adolf Hitler now finds himself rejected not once but twice from Vienna's academy of fine arts.

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