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Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party, and one the most notorious dictators of the 20th century. His fascist agenda led to World War Two, along with the deaths of at least 11 million people, including 6 million Jews in the horror of the Holocaust.

Here are 10 facts about his early life.

1. He was born on 20 April 1889

Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl, and the first to survive childhood. He was baptized a Catholic. Also living in the household were Alois’s two children from his second marriage.

His father Alois had adopted the surname of his father Johann Georg Hitler (also spelled Heidler), and worked as a customs official. Hitler’s mother, Klara, (also Alois’ second cousin) had come from a poor family, yet her and Alois led a financially comfortable life.

Hitler’s parents – his mother Klara (left) and father Alois Hitler (right).

2. He was born in Austria, and moved house multiple times in his childhood

Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, a town in Upper Austria within the

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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) is unquestionably the central figure in the story of the Holocaust. It was the combination of his virulent hatred of Jews and his success in creating a political movement that was able to seize control of Germany that made the campaign to exterminate the Jews possible.

Hitler’s origins: Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. He was the son of a local customs official and his much younger third wife. Hitler’s father was an illegitimate child and it is uncertain who his father was, but there is no evidence for the legend that this unidentified grandfather was Jewish. Hitler’s father was harsh and distant. He had a closer relationship with his mother, and her death from cancer when he was 17 was traumatic for him.

Hitler had a normal education. As a young man, he showed no special talents. He wanted to study art, and moved to Vienna after his mother’s death in hope of being accepted to art school, but was turned down for l

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Adolf Hitler: Early Years, 1889–1913

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. He was baptized a Catholic.

His father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was a mid-level customs official. Born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgruber in 1837, Alois Schickelgruber had changed his name in 1876 to Hitler, the Christian name of the man who married his mother five years after his birth.

Alois Hitler's illegitimacy would cause speculation as early as the 1920s—and still present in popular culture today—that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Credible evidence to support the notion of Hitler's Jewish descent has never turned up. The two most likely candidates to have been Hitler's grandfather are the man who married his grandmother and that man's brother.

Linz

In 1898, the Hitler family moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Hitler wanted a career in the visual arts. He fought bitterly with his father, who wanted him