Adolf Hitler Part 1: Birth of a Führer
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Adolf Hitler - A History of the Holocaust
Hitler's parents were politically quite different from the way he would eventually imerge. His father as a austrian hungarian or hapsburg customs official, he was quite loyal to the hapsburg house. There's little about this family that suggests it will produce the man who will build a state fuelled by an intense hatred of jewish people. Adolfh hitler will become obsessed with ideas of heritage and racial purity. But he grows up in a family whose own origins are something of a mystery. In fact, his father, alouis, wasn't born with the surname hitler. He was born alouis gruber. Shickel gruber was the maiden
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