On April 20, 1889, a child was born in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (now present-day Austria). The father and mother of this child are Alois Johann Schicklgruber and Klara Pölzl. The father, Alois, was married two times before, and Klara, being his third wife and his first cousin.  Alois’ last name had changed from Schicklgruber to Heidler in 1879 whenever his mother, Maria Anna, had remarried to Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. The last name Heidler was differently spelled with spellings such as: Hüttler, Huettler, and Hitler. The child would grow up to be one of the most infamous, genocidal tyrants of the times, the Führer  and High Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler.

Young Adolf was christianized after he was born, adopting the name “Adolphus Hitler”. He was the fourth child of his father as three other siblings, Gustav, Ida, and Otto, all birthed from Klara, died in infancy. As a result of Adolf being Klara’s only surviving child, and since he was a sickly child, she loved him very much and fretted over him. Overall, he was the fourth of six children born to Alois with his half-brother and half-sister, Alois Jr. (Born 1882) and Angela (Born 1883), of Franziska "Fanni" Matzelsberger. At age 3, Adolphus Hitler family moved to Passau, Germany where he obtained a very distinctive and familiar lower Bavarian dialect apart from the Austrian-German dialect. In 1894, his family returned to Austria where they settled in Leonding, where Klara also gave birth to Edmund on March 24, 1894 at the time. Only after about a year, they moved once again to Hafled, near Lambach. Alois Hitler took up farming and keeping bees, and Hitler began attending Volksschule, a state-owned primary school, near Fischlham. Adolf would refuse to obey the strict disciplinary of the school so Alois would beat him even though Klara tried stopping this abuse.

However, he did fairly well in school and his teachers appreciated his work effort. Eventually in 1897, Alois had failed at his farming efforts in Hafled and moved the family to Lambach. At the age of 8, Adolf took singing lessons and joined church    

choirs. At some point, he genuinely considered becoming a priest. In 1898, his family made a permanent residence in Leonding.

Then, grief would strike the family. Young Edmund, who Adolf cared for much so as a brother, would die of measles only at the age of 5 in 1900. Adolf’s overall attitude would change from the confident and outgoing student to a depressed and morose child. His grades had severely dropped, he constantly fought with teachers and Alois, lost interest with friends, and was said to talk to himself and trees occasionally as if someone was there. However, his father would still want Adolf to follow him in his footsteps and become a customs officer.

From one visit to a customs office, Adolf depicted it as a rise of antagonism between the both strong-willed father and son. Alois then had sent him to the Realschule, a secondary school, in Linz in September 1900 instead of a classical high school where Adolf wanted to learn and become an artist. He would do poorly in school again, but Adolf had stated in his book, Mein Kampf, to hope if his father saw “what little progress I was making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to my dream”. This worked in the later future.

For being an Austrian German, Adolf became a German Nationalist, but it was mainly to insult his father. Adolf would express his loyalty to the German Empire while not accepting the Habsburg Monarchy, which has been declining during the time. To further express loyalty, he and his friends greeted each other with “Heil”, and he sang the German national anthem, “Deutschlandlied”, instead of the Austrian Imperial anthem. He was beat for this by his father. He continued to these ideals as evidently seen in later life. On January 3, 1903, Alois Hitler Sr. died from what Adolf had described as a “stroke of apoplexy”. Since of Adolf’s continuing deterioration in his performance at Realschule, Klara allowed him to leave. In September 1904, he enlisted at a different Realschule in Steyr that better suited him. This school is where Adolf is able to pursue more into the arts, and his overall performance and behavior would then be majorly improved. In 1905, he abandoned his schooling in Steyr after repeating a final exam. From here in his life, he had no ambitions for further education or plans for a career just yet. Eventually, futures events would shape his life was what we see him still today.