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__________________________________________________________________________ , " 1 Hitler, Adolf (1889--1945), Dictator (Fuehrer) of the Third German Reich. Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria, to a family of small landowners. His father was a customs official. From 1900--1905 Hitler went to secondary school in the Austrian town of Linz, marking the end of his formal education. His father died in 1903. In 1907 Hitler attempted to get into the Vienna Academy of Art's School of Painting, but he failed the entrance exam. That same year, his mother died of breast cancer - her doctor had been Jewish. In 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna. He survived on the orphan's allowance that he received from the government and from the sale of postcards he painted. At that time, antisemitism was rampant in Vienna. The city's mayor, Karl Lueger, was rabidly antisemitic, and Hitler embraced his ideology. Hitler later declared that the period during which he lived in Vienna was extremely influential in molding his opinions and views. Hitler moved to Munich in 1913. When World War I broke out the following year, he joined the Bavarian army. Working as a message runner in Belgium and France, Hitler was quite a good soldier. He was promoted to