The Rise And Fall Of Hitlers Reich

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an obvious difficulty in
fitting in at school." He did well enough to get by in some of his courses but
had no time for subjects that did not interest him. Years later, his former
school mates would remember how Adolf would taunt his teachers and draw sketches
of them in his school notebooks. Forty years later, in the sessions at his
headquarters which produced the record of his table talk, Hitler recalled
several times the teachers of his school days with contempt. "They had no
sympathy with youth. Their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into
erudite apes themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality,
they persecuted him relentlessly".

Adolf saw no real reason to stay in high school. He left school at age sixteen
without a leaving certificate. In September 1907, Hitler left home taking with
him all the money left to him by his father, who had died a few years earlier.
The money would be enough for tuition and board at the art school in ...

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runner,
delivering messages back and forth between the front lines and the officers in
the rear. His courage during one of these missions earned him the Iron Cross, a
highly prized medal for bravery that was rarely awarded to a mere corporal .

On October 13th 1918, a month before Germany surrendered to the Allies, his good
luck ran out. When Hitler and his fellow dispatch runners were waiting in line
for their food rations, British troops began lobbing high explosive shells
nearby. Some of these shells contained chlorine gas, a deadly poison. Hitler
and the others quickly put on their gas masks, but not before they had been
exposed to the fumes. By the next morning some of the ...

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