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Young Hitler Hitler's teacher and schoolmates had no idea that sitting among them was someone whose life would turn Europe upside down and cause the deaths of countless millions. The young Hitler himself had no idea of the future that awaited him.

It is difficult to relate it to all the horrors - wars, massacres and concentration camps - with which, quite rightly, we will always associate the name of Hitler. Even long after these events it is still very difficult to unravel the chain of circumstances that connects an ordinary childhood in a quiet Austrian town with an evil and ruthless dictatorship that ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.

Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. His family was German speakers, father working as a customs official on the Austro-German border. He was not very successful at school. At the age of 18 he moved to Vienna where he twice failed the entrance exams for the Academy of Fine Arts.

He stayed on in the Austrian capital, however, and it was here that he picked up many of the political ideas that we have come to associate with Nazism: a dislike of democracy, a belief that all Germans should come together in one strong German state, a hatred of the Jews. In 1913 he moved to Munich in Germany and the following year volunteered for service in the German army in the First World War. He was wounded in active service and later awarded the military decoration, the Iron Cross.