Amazing Facts About Adolf Hitler
* The dictator of Germany was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889 to Alois Hitler (1837-1903) and Klara Polzl(1860-1907) .
* Hitler was the fourth of six children. His older siblings – Gustav (1885- 1887), Ida (1886-1888) and Otto (1887), all three died in infancy. His younger brother, Edmund died from measles on 2 February 1900.
* Throughout his youth, he used to dream about becoming an artist. Earlier, he worked as a casual laborer and eventually as a painter and selling water colors.
* He lived in the Mariahilf district during his stay in Vienna, a place known at the time for its anti-semitism . This may have been where Hitler picked up his anti-semite views.
* Although He tried to avoid Austrian military service by moving to Munich in Germany, once World War I began, he volunteered to serve in the German Army.
* He was adorned for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class in the year 1914 and the Black Wound Badge on 18 May 1918. Recommended by Hugo Gutmann, he received the Iron Cross, First Class in the year 1918.
* He was seriously wounded twice. Once during the Battle of the Somme in October 1916 when he was injured in the left thigh as a shell exploded in the dispatch runner's dugout. And the other on 15 October 1918 when he was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack.
* It was while he was recovering from the gas attack that Hitler heard of the German defeat. He was furious over the surrender of Germany and strongly believed that Germany had been 'stabbed in the back' by its leaders and Marxists.
* Some also say he was furious at a Jewish doctor that let his mother die. However, none of this has been proved and when exactly he started hating the Jews is yet to be clear.
* He applied two times to the Academy of Arts ( in 1907 and 1908) but was denied entrance both times.
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