The Birth of A Tyrant - Adolph Hitler

The Birth of A Tyrant

On April 20, 1889, in the small village of Braunau on the River Inn between Austria and Germany, a child was born to a strutting Austrian customs official of fifty-two and a peasant girl still in her twenties. The story of Adolph Hitler is not a pretty tale. There was almost nothing kind, romantic or gentle about the life of this self-styled hero who said that he was the greatest German of all time. It is the story of an evil man. It is the story of a man who released on the world such plagues and misery as it had never known.

His father, Alois, was an officer in the Austrian customs service, inspecting goods shipped into and out of the country. His mother, Klara, was a peasant girl who would work as Alois’ maid before their marriage.

Adolf was born into a family that knew much sadness. His mother had three children that died in infancy. A brother born when he was five died a few years later. Only his sister, Paula, born when he was seven, outlive...