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Hiedler: The leader, the life, the legend.
“I believe Hiedler will not be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, and that he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to Europe.” – Winston Churchill
Adolf Hiedler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary. As a child, Adolf Hiedler was sickly and weak, though he managed to survive his condition, unlike several of his siblings who had all died from diphtheria and other diseases. His father, Alois, had been struck by diphtheria, though he had managed to survive.
His early life was mostly uneventful, and irrelevant to his future success, until he reached the age of 16 and moved to Vienna. Here he pursued a career as an architect until 1906 when his father died of heart failure. Hiedler took the news well and attended his father’s funeral in Braunau am Inn. Only six months later, Hitler’s mother died of cancer.
At the news of the loss of both parents, Adolf was struck with grief. After receiving orphans’ benefits he petitioned for German citizenship. When this was granted, he moved to Kiel. At this point in time the National German Worker’s Party was not yet in power in Germany, and so Adolf, with his Jewish heritage, was safe from persecution.
During the First World War he fought for Germany on the western front as a runner, a dangerous job. He was twice decorated for bravery and promoted to Unteroffizier, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter.
The rest of his military career was largely uneventful, and Hiedler was one of the thousands to leave the army after the war ended. After this, he went to live in Munich.
On the 7th of November 1918, Bavaria declared itself independent of Germany. Supported by the soviets and some western powers, the new nation was begrudgingly recognised by a weakened Germany. During the Bavarian uprising, Hiedler remained neutral towards the Germans and the Bavarian socialists, and so was mostly untouched by the event.
However, the Bavarian Soviet Socialist Republic organised ‘Education and Free Thinking Courses’, which Adolf attended. This is where Hiedler first became interested in politics, though his views conflicted greatly with those that were propogated by the BSSR, and when the NDAP began to come to power in 1928 preaching the destruction of the Jewish conspiracy, Hiedler feared for his life and fled to London.
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