hitler

            Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April 1889 in "Braunau am Inn", Austria. After leaving school prematurely he tried to become an artist, but was rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna twice. .
             At the beginning of World War I he volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. There he proved to be a brave soldier, but was never promoted beyond the rank of a "Gefreiter", because his superior officers didn't believe he would have any qualities in leadership. Short before the end of the war in 1918, he was injured by an English gas attack. Thereby he lost his eyes sight temporally and spent several months in hospital. This is the best-known face of the century. Its appearance on the cover of a book or magazine is known to increase sales by 25-50%, the closest rival for this distinction being the present Princess of Wales. The political career of Adolf Hitler is the most fully documented this century, and more has been written about him than anyone else in history - with the possible exception of Jesus Christ. He provokes endless, sometimes barmy, Internet questions andcomments . Over 1000 biographies have been published. Yet after 50 years of historical debate the phenomenon of Hitler still amazes. .
             Alan Bullock points out that he began with no advantages (though not as humbly as he liked to claim), not even a citizen of the country he was to rule. Entirely reliant on his own resources, he came to wield in Germany an absolute power unequalled in a modern industrialised state. His domination of Europe, comparable to Napoleon's at his height, was broken only by the combined effortsof the three most powerful nations in the world.How did he do it? Not through hard graft, as he was in some ways lazy, often bored by his administrative duties. Bullock draws attention to his mastery of the irrational in politics, gift for simplification, sense of timing, opportunism, strength of purpose in pursuing his aims, unshakable belief in himself as a man chosen by destiny.