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Adolf Hitler Thesis

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Hitler. What do you think about when you hear that name? I think about a man who rose to power in Germany and made his best effort to create the perfect race by eliminating all bad factors in his way. He would do whatever it took to get there. No one really knows why Adolf hated people of the Jewish race. He grew up in Vienna, Austria where the mayor of the city disliked Jews and taught the townspeople to dislike them too. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted to create a pure race, but he wasn’t even pure himself. Adolf was born on April 20, 1889 and he grew up in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary or present day Austria. He lived with his father and mother, Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf had three sisters and four brothers. Some were from previous marriages on his father’s side. His father, Alois Hitler, didn’t show much interest in Adolf. Alois and Klara’s marriage seemed incomplete. After the birth of their first born son, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler came along. Ida and Gustav were both just small children when they both caught diphtheria in the winter of 1886-87 and died. Then during Klara’s third pregnancy, Otto Hitler, was born. Days after the infant was alive, he became deathly ill and died. Adolf Hitler was the couple's fourth child. The couple also had two more children after Adolf, Paula and Edmund Hitler. Edmund died of the measles at age five. Paula and Adolf were the only two of six children to live into adulthood. Adolf was also a sickly child, and his parents were

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