"All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people."
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
Vienna
On February of 1908, Adolf moved to Vienna with hopes of getting into their art academy and becoming an artist.
A friend, August remembers Adolf as a lazy and non self motivated person.
Adolf was full of great ideas but never finished anything he started.
In October of 1908, Adolf applied to the art academy again and wasn't accepted.
Making no effort to get a job, in December of 1909, he moved into a homeless shelter.
Adolf sprung an interest in reading, which is when he wrote his first book, Mein Kampf, on his views on Jews.
A friend, August remembers Adolf as a lazy and non self motivated person.
Adolf was full of great ideas but never finished anything he started.
In October of 1908, Adolf applied to the art academy again and wasn't accepted.
Making no effort to get a job, in December of 1909, he moved into a homeless shelter.
Adolf sprung an interest in reading, which is when he wrote his first book, Mein Kampf, on his views on Jews.
Adolf Hitler's first book about himself called Mein Kampf.
"Once, as I was strolling through the inner city, I suddenly encountered an apparition in a black caftan and black hair locks. Is this a Jew? was my first thought."
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
Politics & Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler at the start of his life in Vienna and Munich.
Now 21, Adolf became interested in politics and got involved with events and began to study the politics of the Social Democrats.
He also began to admire Lueger, a powerful politician.
To answer his question from the quote above, he interested himself in anti-Semitic literature, went and studied Jews.
Rows of dead Jews in a concentration camp in Germany.
"...the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity..."
- Adolf Hitler
munich
Hitler with the crowd celebrating the German proclamation of war in Munich on August 2, 1914.
In May of 1913, Adolf moved to Munich illegally and wrote a persuasive letter to the authorities to get away with it.
On August 2nd, 1914 a crowd gathered in a public gathering in Munich to celebrate the German proclamation of war.
2 days after this, Adolf volunteered for the German Army & enlisted in a Bavarian regiment.
On August 2nd, 1914 a crowd gathered in a public gathering in Munich to celebrate the German proclamation of war.
2 days after this, Adolf volunteered for the German Army & enlisted in a Bavarian regiment.
"For me, as for every German, there now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence. Compared to the events of this gigantic struggle, everything past receded to shallow nothingness,"
- Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf.
- Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf.
This is a painting of the Bavarian Regiment.
