Name: Hitler - OverSimplified (Part 1)
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You'd think this child would grow up to become a good man, an honest man.

Hitler was born Adolphus Hitler in 1889 in a small town in Austria, Hungary.

His father, Alois Schickelgruber, was born out of wedlock, but

eventually changed his name to that of his stepfather, becoming Alois Hitler.

Alois was a mid level Austrian customs officer, not really rolling in cash, but certainly rolling in women.

then immediately started having affairs, including one with a much younger house servant.

A few years later he left his sick wife to be with his mistress.

But since the Catholic Church didn't allow divorce at the time, he couldn't marry her.

So he waited for his old wife to die and had a child in the meantime.

Then his wife died, so he married his mistress and had another child.

But then his new wife got sick, so he employed his much, much younger cousin Clara to take care of her.

Then when his new wife died, he immediately got Clara, his cousin, pregnant and then married her.

Clara and Alois had three children together who all tragically died while in infancy.

So when the fourth child, Adolf came along, Clara spoiled him rotten.

The Hitlers had two more kids and the family moved around a few times, meaning Adolf had to attend five different elementary schools.

Adolf's father was strict, quick to anger and took most of it out on the eldest son until he had enough and ran away at the age of 14, leaving 7 year old Adolf to do most of the chores and get berated by his father.

The result was a difficult relationship with his dad.

While he was super attached to his mother who worried over him and his health excessively.

His grades were good and his teachers praised him.

He was popular with the other kids and enjoyed gathering them together to play war games.

He also loved reading and particularly liked stories about cowboys and Indians.

As he grew older, though, he started to get into trouble.

He was caught smoking once organized a raid on a local orchard, tormented his pro Austria religion teacher with symbolic gestures, displaying his allegiance to the idea of united Germanic people under a greater German state and defiance of Habsburg Austria.

All of this enraged Adolf's father, who punished him severely.

The area of Austria, Hungary that Hitler lived in was once part of the German Confederation and many of the people who lived there considered themselves to be German.

Adolf tended to just go against whatever his father said.

And since his father was an Austrian public official, Hitler got big into German nationalism.

This enraged Adolf's father who punished him severely.

Around this time a family tragedy struck.

His six year old brother, whom he loved a lot, died of measles when Adolf was 10 and was buried in the cemetery just across from their home.

Around this time, neighbors reported a change in the young boy.

Strange behaviors such as talking to trees and staying up late staring at the stars from the cemetery walls.

He lost interest in religion and his school grades started to decline, which enraged his father who punished him severely.

It also didn't help that he had just entered high school and the cool city boys treated him like a rural peasant.

He had to repeat a grade and had little interest in most school subjects, instead spending his time reading and drawing, which he was quite good at.

One day his father said, son, someday you'll be a big balls public official like me.

And Adolf replied, no father, I'm going to become an artist and soar high above the clouds with the eagles.

by this time he was an old ass man, so he just sort of let it go and then died of a lung hemorrhage.

Hitler just about passed his final semester and celebrated in the typical way by getting blackout drunk and wiping his ass with a certificate.

However, he didn't take the overall final school exam, instead just dropping out.

The now 16 year old boy was unemployed without much purpose in life, and

for the next three years he stayed that way.

He spent most of his time at the opera with his only friend, August Kubizek.

Kubizek later wrote his memories of the young Hitler and said he was passionately interested in many things, felt he was in many ways better than others.

His age was quick to anger, just like his father and an incredible speaker.

When he was 18, he said a very sad goodbye to his mother and went to Vienna to take the entrance exam for art school.

His mother was sick and her health was rapidly deteriorating.

Hitler stayed by her side and when she eventually died, the family doctor said he had never seen someone so overwhelmed with grief as Hitler was.

Then Hitler returned to Vienna, still hoping to find a career in the arts.

Instead, without parental support, Hitler ended up on the streets.

Now in his early 20s, he spent a few rough years living in and out of homeless shelters, making what little he could from selling postcards he painted.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when and how Hitler's extreme ideological beliefs formed, but

his time in Vienna would have certainly played a role.

Anti Semitism was widespread in the city.

The mayor whom Hitler supported was an outspoken anti Semite.

There were many right wing anti Semitic newsletters which Hitler took a keen interest in.

He bought into the conspiracy theories and became a firm believer in the idea that there are many races in constant struggle with one another, the purest of which were the German Aryan people and the worst of which he believed were Jews.

Since Austria, Hungary was a multi ethnic empire full of lesser races.

So when he was 24, he moved to Munich in Germany to avoid doing military service.

And for one more year he was a drifter on the streets.

Long standing tensions in Europe erupted into the First World War.

Crowds across Europe celebrated the news.

Within days, Hitler volunteered for the German army.

His fellow soldiers gave him friendship and brotherhood.

Despite the horrors of war, Hitler considered it to be the best time of his life.

He was reportedly a brave soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross first Class.

He was also very lucky and had many close encounters with death.

His luck ran out in 1916, however, when an artillery shell injured his leg.

He went back to Germany to recover and was outraged to find a general apathetic anti war attitude among the exhausted and hungry German populace.

With the war turning against Germany, he returned to the front lines, but

was temporarily blinded by a British gas attack in 1918.

A month later, still recovering in hospital, Hitler learned of Germany's defeat and surrender.

The terms of the peace treaty were tough on Germany.

It had to pay a lot of money and lose a lot of soldiers.

These conditions weakened Germany and humiliated the German people.

Europe's borders changed after the war too.

New countries were formed out of Russia's lost territory.

Austria Hungary was dissolved and there was one big new country splitting Germany into two.

Hitler, seeing the country he loved humiliated like this, said that hatred grew in him for those responsible.

By which he meant communists and Jews who he believed had stabbed Germany in the back by spreading dissent and anti war propaganda back home.