Did Adolf Hitler have a bad childhood?

Answer 1

yes, actually I'm in the eighth grade and in advanced English we are about to read a book called NIGHT,which is about the Holocaust. He was very neglected and abused as a child, but he loved his mother to death.

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I wonder if there's any solid evidence about what happened to the boy during his up binging at home, rather than stories that neighbours suddenly started telling about 40 years later.

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He was not accepted to a Jewish summer camp when he was a kid that led him to kill Jews

Answer 2

Any assumption that Hitler's tyranny sprung from a poor or turmultuous childhood is false. However this is a popular preconception, and springs from Hitlers progeny text Mein Kampf. in this book, Hitler claims to have had a poor background, one of hardship and poverty. In fact, Hitler came from a middle-class family, that lived comfortably by the standards of the day. His father Alois Hitler was a customs official, and Hitlers mother Klara, was Alois' third wife; a servant girl.

As a child, Adolf Hitler was an unruly student, with his teachers complaining 'he was wilful, arrogant and bad tempered.' also described as 'lazy and demanded from his fellow pupils their unqualifed subservience, fancying himself as their leader.' it seems if Hitler had any struggles, it was all self inflicted.

Later in life Hitler did spend some time in poverty as a young adult, but this again was self inflicted, as in pursuit of his dream to become an artist he refused to seek a settled job.

Source: Mason, K.J., Republic to Reich, 2nd Edtion (2003, Mcgraw Hill, Australia).

Answer 3

no, he was just a "normal" guy. he was kind of a messenger in WWI though.