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Volume 1: Chapter 1, In the House of My Parents

• Hitler is born in the town of Braunau on the Inn which is on the border of two German states; he sees the need for the German state to return to its days of glory and strength, and the borders of the country should include every German.

• Hitler is raised by his father, a civil servant and his mother.

• The young Hitler is constantly having verbal disputes with his classmates and becomes interested in the military and war from reading magazines and books.
• Hitler's father decides that the boy should be sent to high school, a Realschule and is set on his son becoming a civil servant like himself but the young Hitler makes it clear that he does not want to be a civil servant; Hitler wants to be an artist.

• Hitler becomes a nationalist and he begins to...

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