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born on April 20th 1889 in a small Austrian town called Braunau
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In 1895, at age six, two important events happened in the life of young Adolf Hitler. First, the unrestrained, carefree days he had enjoyed up to now came to an end as he entered primary school. Secondly, his father retired on a pension from the Austrian civil service.
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The second key influence was that of Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna from 1897 to his death in 1910.
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In 1898, the Hitler family moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria
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As she lay dying of breast cancer in the autumn of 1907, Hitler took the entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of the Arts and failed to gain acceptance
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In early 1908, some weeks after Klara's death in December 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna, ostensibly in the hope of renewing efforts to win acceptance in the Academy of Arts.
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By the end of 1909, Hitler knew real poverty as his sources of income dried up
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Hitler lived in Vienna between February 1908 and May 1913
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The "war to end all wars" began after the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was gunned down by a young Serbian terrorist on June 28, 1914
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On October 7, 1916, Hitler's luck ran out when he was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment during the Battle of the Somme
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To get away from the apathetic civilians, Hitler asked to go back to the Front and was sent back in March of 1917.
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Hitler considered the traitors of 1918 to be the German politicians responsible for the so called 'stab in the back,' who prematurely ended World War I and established the German democratic republic
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, German generals requested armistice negotiations with the Allies in November 1918.
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Communists, Socialists and even innocent bystanders were rounded up and murdered in January 1919, in Berlin, and in May in Munich
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Amid this political turmoil, on June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the victorious Allies and was then dutifully ratified by the German democratic government
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For his next assignment, he was ordered in September of 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party.
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The other committee members were concerned they might have trouble filling the place, but just over a hundred showed up at the meeting held on October 16, 1919.
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By early 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds. In February, Hitler spoke before a crowd of nearly six thousand in Munich
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Hitler rushed back to Munich and countered them by announcing his resignation from the Party on July 11, 1921.
