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Adolf HitlerThe interesting life of Adolf Hitler is non fully known to people. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler in the Austrian town of Braunau. Two of his siblings died from diphtheria when they were children, and one died shortly after birth. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth, which was described by his housemaid as a very strict but comfortable man. His mother showered new(a) Adolf with love and affection. When Adolf was three years old, the family travel to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. A brother, Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwestern of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented by a half brother and half sister from one of his fathers two previous marriages. chase another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Ben edictine monastery. The monasterys coat of arms most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolfs envisage was to enter the priesthood. While there is anecdotal evidence that Adolfs father on a regular basis beat him during his childhood, it was not unusual for discipline to be enforced in that way during that period. By 1900, Hitlers talents as an artist surfaced. He did well nice in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory lyceum or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the latter had a course in drawing, Adolf accepted his fathers decision to enroll him in the Realschule. He did not do well there. Adolfs father died in 1903 after suffering a pleural hemorrhage. Adolf himself suffered from lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the sequel of ill health and partially the result of poor school work. In 1906, Adolf was permitted to visit Vienna, but he was unable to gain admission to a prestigious art school. His mothe r developed terminal breast malignant neoplastic disease and was treated by Dr. Edward Bloch, a Jewish doctor who served the poor. After an effect and excruciatingly painful and expensive treatments with a dangerous drug, she died on celestial latitude 21, 1907. Hitler spent six years in Vienna, living on a small legacy from his father and an orphans pension. Virtually penniless by 1909, he wandered Vienna as a transient, sleeping in bars, flophouses, and shelters for the homeless, including, ironically, those financed by Jewish philanthropists.