When you're in high school, history classes aren't exactly many people's favorite subject. They look at the larger, highlighted topics and tend to leave out all the interesting little facts that stimulate our brains. There are many people in history whose moments we only get to see in the light, and not their entire story. Today I would like to spend some time talking about Adolf Hitler's life before his harrowing war. Hitler was not at all known as a kind human being, but there are many things that people usually don't know about his history before the start of World War II. While many people automatically assume that Hitler is German due to his dictatorship there. , actually comes from Austria. He was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889. His father was Alois Hitler and his mother was Klara Hitler. He had six siblings, but only two survived to adulthood. Hitler's father died when he was only thirteen, leaving his mother to care for him and his siblings. Times quickly became difficult at home and Hitler dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. Just a few years later her mother died of breast cancer. Hitler then moved to Vienna where he sold postcards of his artwork to survive. Hitler submitted his works to the Vienna Academy of Arts several times, only to be rejected. It is believed that during his years in Vienna he acquired his anti-Semitic views. World War I begins, and although Hitler was not German, he joined their forces. Hitler was messenger for the four years of his service. During his time at war he decided that politics was the right path for him. On October 13, a gas bomb attack causes Hitler to go temporarily blind. He was… in the middle of the paper… he gained up to two hundred and eighty-eight seats in parliament, where the other parties now dominated. Hitler now asked for and received an enabling act giving him the power to make his own laws. Soon all other political parties were abolished and many of their leaders were sent to concentration camps. The concentration camps became a notorious place of brutality, horror and death. That August Hindenburg died, and Hitler immediately proclaimed himself leader of the German nation. It soon began to affect the surrounding territories, thus starting the Second World War. We have seen the horror of war in films, books and pictures. Even though I had never heard Hitler's story from childhood, or his experiences in Vienna, or his first political stance, until I took it upon myself to find out more. You never know what you'll find when you dig a little deeper into the stories of the past.