Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau in a small town. His father Alois Hitler was born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgru in 1837, Alois Schickelgruber changed his name to Hitler in 1876. The Hitler's as a family moved many times throughout Adolf's childhood. In 1898, they moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Alois was an overbearing, domineering husband and a stern, distant, aggressive and violent father. According to psychoanalyst Michael Stone, Hitler's father beat both Adolf and his older brother with a whip regularly. Adolf constantly fought with his father about his future career because his father wanted him to enter the Habsburg civil service. …show more content…
"Adolf was exceedingly violent and highly strung. Quite trivial things, such as a few thoughtless words, could produce in him outbursts of temper which I thought were quite out of proportion to the significance of the matter." In this case, the perfect perspective of Hitler would be psychoanalytic being that he is most definitely is short tempered. The traumatic events Hitler experienced as a child influenced his future behaviors. Hitler wanted power being that he did not have that as a young boy. Adolf found this way of power through politics and his way of power as he was old enough was through politics. As a result of his need for power, Hitler found it necessary to have absolute control over the environment, which in turn can be diagnosed as obsessive compulsive disorder …show more content…
Rejecting the fight for Austria, Hitler then volunteered for the German Army and was accepted to wear his uniform for the next six years. Hitler was promoted and assigned on the 9th of November as a dispatch runner. His job was to carry messages between the front-line and Regimental Headquarters. Hitler enjoyed being in the Army, and had much of an excitement for fighting. According to Ernst Hanfstaengle, Hitler was a victim of sexual bullying while in the army, observed him to be a man uninterested in women but also said that Hitler was known to be a "monk" and as well as Ernst and Adolf were claimed to have a sexual relationship. While in the Army, it seemed to everyone that Hitler was unaffected by the killings of his fellow soldiers. On October 2nd 1916, Hitler was wounded in the left thigh when a shell exploded. During an attack in October of 1918, Hitler was blinded with gas and later
Adolf Hitler pg # 4 sent to a hospital to recover his sight. On June 5th 1919, Hitler began a course on political education at Munich University and was soon chosen as a political officer.
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