ABSTRACT
Adolph Hitler, 1889–1945, is generally regarded as the great scourge of twentieth century Europe. At the start of his power, many in Germany celebrated him as a savior. In retrospect, he is remembered as a mad blight writ large on the stage of civilized humanity. As a child and teenager, he was somewhat estranged and extremely resentful of his father’s authority over him; but he was devoted to his mother. Adolf did not embrace anti-Semitism or anti-Marxism in his early youth, but did so in his later youth, after the death of his parents, when he was on his own in Vienna. He killed himself in his bunker on April 30, 1945, just days before Germany’s surrender on May 8.
