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Adolf Hitler was born on april 20,1889 in Braunau, Austria
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Alois Hitler, 65, went out for a walk, stopping at a favorite inn where he sat down and asked for a glass of wine. He collapsed before the wine was brought to him and died within minutes from a lung hemorrhage. It was not the first one he had suffered.
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Adolf Hitler's mother went to see the family doctor about a pain in her chest, so bad it kept her awake at night. The doctor, Edward Bloch, who was Jewish, examined her and found she had advanced breast cancer.
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After dropping out of high school in 1905 at age sixteen, Adolf Hitler spent the next few years in brooding idleness. he took a test to try and get into an art school but he failed it.
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Influenced by the anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger
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In February 1908, Hitler moved there with the goal of attending the art academy and becoming a great artist.
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Adolf left Austria at the age of 24 to avoid mandatory military service that was required of all men.
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Adolf Hitler found a new home fighting for the German Fatherland. After years of poverty, alone and uncertain, he now had a sense of belonging and purpose.