"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the
future."
- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. His father was a customs officer on the border crossing with Germany and his mother gave birth to two other children, but both of them died. He dropped out of school early with dreams of becoming an artist, but his application to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna was denied twice. After that Hitler lived in poverty after his mother died from cancer in 1908.
Adolf Hitler Rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval. Failing to take power by force in 1923, he eventually won power by democratic means. Once in power, he eliminated all opponents and started his planof world domination and elimination of the Jews, which he wrote about in his book, Mein Kampf.