ADOLF HITLER

The young Adolf Hitler was a good student and received good marks in most of his classes; in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He then dropped out of school at the age of 16. His childhood dream had been to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show, but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. He failed the first time he attempted to gain admission to the Academy of Arts in Vienna; he tried again in 1907 and - to his surprise - failed again. The Dean of the Academy said to him "You will never be painter." Between 1907 and 1913 he lived a bohemian life in Vienna, attempting to support himself as an artist painting postcards; he was homeless on occasion and lived in flophouses (Badsey, 1992, p. 24).

In 1914, Hitler refused to join the Austrian Army, and instead crossed into Germany, where he joined the Bavarian Army. He served throughout the First World War in the front li

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e destruction of the radical SA leadership under Ernst Rohm in the "Night of the Long Knives" blood purge in June 1934 confirmed Hitler as undisputed dictator; by the beginning of August, when he united the positions of Fuhrer and Chancellor on the death of von Hindenburg, he had all the powers of State in his hands, as Fuehrer of the Third Reich. His first act was to have all members of the German armed forces and soon after the government bureaucracy swear personal allegiance to him - not the state - as their leader (Shirer, 1966, p. 395). ACHIEVEMENTS, SUCCESSES, STRENGTHS: During the period from 1934-38, Hitler enjoyed a dazzling string of domestic and international successes, outwitting rival political leaders abroad just as he had defeated his opposition at home. In 1935, he announced the abandonment of the Versailles Treaty and built up the army by conscripting five times its permitted number. He persuaded Great Britain to allow an increase in Navy to 35 percent of the Royal Navy with equality in submarines; in March 1936 he occupied the demilitarized Rhineland in the act he felt was the most dangerous of his career to date. In all these, the victorious World War I Allies, led by Britain and France, did nothing in respo
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