Mein Kampf | Characters & Character Analysis

Mein Kampf Important People

Adolf Hitler

Hitler is born in the Austrian-German border town of Braunau on the Inn. His father is a Custom's official so they move around a lot. The family settles in the Austrian town of Lambech, which is where the young Hitler attends school and begins to develop many of his nationalistic views. With both of his parents dead when he is fifteen, he moves to Vienna, living on an orphan's pension. He studies the parliamentary and electoral process during the years he is in Vienna and develops many of his philosophic views during these years. He decides he wants to be a German in Germany and moves to Munich in 1912. During the pre-war years in Munich he studies foreign policy and formulates his views on those topics. He serves during World War I and is injured several times and returns to Germany. At the war's end, he is assigned...
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