Adolf hitler summary biography

Early Life

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, , in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian town near the Austro-German frontier. After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs official, young Adolf spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.

Not wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps as a civil servant, he began struggling in secondary school and eventually dropped out.

Alois died in , and Adolf pursued his dream of being an artist, though he was rejected from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts.

After his mother, Klara, died in , Hitler moved to Vienna, where he pieced together a living painting scenery and monuments and selling the images.

Lonely, isolated and a voracious reader, Hitler became interested in politics during his years in Vienna, and developed many of the ideas that would shape Nazi ideology.

Military Career of Adolf Hitler

In , Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria.

When World War I broke out the following summer,