Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889, in Braunau, Austria. His father, Alois, was an officer in the Austrian customer service, and his mother, Klara, was a peasant girl who’d worked as Alois’s maid before their marriage. Adolf grew up with an extremely strict father, which motivated him to rebel. He wanted to be an artist and go to the Academy of Art, but his father would not tolerate a son without a …showed first 75 words of 2545 total…

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