Adolf disliked him and told his friends never to .
mention his name. .
When Adolf was born his mother was afraid he would die so she gave most of her .
attention to him. She treated the other two kindly but never with the same affection as she .
treated Adolf. Adolf liked his half sister Angela much better, but his baby sister Paula was .
his closest sibling. Paula too charge of his household, and remained faithful even after he .
became famous. .
Adolf was born in 1889 in Brounan, Austria, a small city on the German border. .
When Adolf was young, he took singing lessons and sang in the choir in a Benedictine .
monastery. Adolf did very well in elementary school until he became interested in art. As .
soon as he saw all the attention he could get from drawing he immediately began drawing .
pictures of castles and landscapes that amazed his peers. Much to his fathers .
disappointment he decided to pursue a career in art instead of following in his fathers .
footsteps. Since he did his drawing in class his school work suffered. Hitler said later on .
in life that he did bad in school so his father would let him pursue his career in art. At this .
time children either went to Gymnasium or Reilschule. Gymnasium was for people who .
wanted a classic education and Reilschule was a technical and scientific school. His father .
wanted him to go to Reilschule and Hitler agreed mainly because it offered a drawing .
class. Every day Hitler walked 3 miles to attend Reilschule in Rintz. .
Reilschule was much bigger than his old school and he didn't get the attention he .
was used to. After a while though, he started to fit in. He often organized the children .
into groups to play war games in which he was always captain. He based many war games .
on the stories he read out of James Cooper. Even as a child he was a convincing speaker, .
organizing the children into debate teams. He wrote later in Mein Kampf that he thought .
that this is where he got his speaking and organizational skills .