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“At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. ” ("The History Place - Rise of Hitler: Adolf Hitler is Born").
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On April 20, 1889, her fourth child, Adolf, was born healthy and was baptized a Roman Catholic.
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When he was almost five, in 1893, his mother gave birth to a brother, Edmund
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hitler entered primary school.
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1896 came a sister, Paula.
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In 1898, the Hitler family moved once again, to the village of Leonding, close to Linz. They settled into a small house with a garden located next to a cemetery. This meant another change of schools for Adolf.
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Adolf's little brother Edmund, age 6, died of measles. Adolf, the boy who loved warplay and its 'pretend' death now had to confront genuine death for the first time. It seems to have shaken him badly.
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In January 1903, Hitler's father died suddenly of a lung hemorrhage, leaving his 13-year-old son as head of the Hitler household.
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Hitler left the high school at Linz. He had been given a passing mark in French on a make-up exam on the condition that he not return to the school. In September 1904, he entered another high school, at Steyr, a small town 25 miles from Linz.
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In May of 1904, at age 15, Adolf Hitler received the Catholic Sacrament of Confirmation in the Linz Cathedral.
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he left school at age sixteen never to return.
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On January 14, 1907, 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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In October 1907, at age eighteen, he withdrew his inheritance money from the bank and went to live and study in Vienna.
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His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and he was not admitted. Hitler was badly shaken by this rejection.
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As the festive Christmas season approached in December 1907, she was near death. In the early hours of December 21st, amid the glowing lights of the family's Christmas tree, she died quietly.
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Hitler once again set his sights on Vienna and the art academy. He moved there in February 1908.
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In the Spring of 1906, at age seventeen, Hitler took his first trip to Vienna, capital city of the empire and one of the world's most important centers of art, music and old-world European culture.
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Hitler resolved to take the painting school entrance exam again next year. Now, feeling quite depressed, Hitler left Vienna and returned home where his beloved mother was now dying from cancer, making matters even worse.
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In October 1908, Hitler tried for the second time to gain admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. However, his test drawings were judged as so poor that he was not even allowed to take the formal exam.
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In December of 1909, freezing and half starved, he moved into a homeless shelter.
