Adolf Hitler

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the church choir, took singing lessons, and even entertained the fantasy of one day becoming a priest.[17] In 1898, the family returned permanently to Leonding.

His younger brother Edmund died of measles on 2 February 1900, causing permanent changes in Hitler. He went from a confident, outgoing boy who excelled in school, to a morose, detached, sullen boy who constantly battled his father and his teachers.[18]

Hitler was attached to his mother, though he had a troubled relationship with his father, who frequently beat him, especially in the years after Alois' retirement and disappointing farming efforts.[19] Alois wanted his son to follow in his footsteps as an Austrian customs official, and this became a huge source of conflict between them.[15] Despite his son's pleas to go to classical high school and become an artist, his father sent him to the Realschule in Linz, a technical high school of about 300 students, in September 1900. Hitler rebelled, and in Mein Kampf ...

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such a dressing-down that the boy was reduced to shivering jelly. It was probably the most painful and humiliating experience of his life."[20] Hitler was expelled, never to return to school again.

At age 15, Hitler took part in his First Holy Communion on Whitsunday, 22 May 1904, at the Linz Cathedral.[21] His sponsor was Emanuel Lugert, a friend of his late father.[22]

Early adulthood in Vienna and MunichFrom 1905 on, Hitler lived a bohemian life in Vienna on an orphan's pension and support from his mother. He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1907�1908), citing "unfitness for painting", and was told his abilities lay instead in the field of ...

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