ad a passion for history, but he soon quit school at 16. In 1903, at age 18 Hitler failed the entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He always believed himself to be an artist and believed he had been denied acceptance to the school because of his stupid teacher. Instead of pursuing a career in art, Hitler became a vagabond and earned money through his painting. Later in life, Hitler admitted that the years of 1909-1913 were the worst years of his life. Hitler did a lot of thinking and began to believe that Germans were the master race and thought of them as more intelligent and skilful than any other race. Hitler developed a hatred for Jews, believing that they were outsiders and did not belong in the Germanic Empire. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich because he could not stand the mixture of races in Vienna. World War One began and Hitler enrolled himself in the army, as a messenger on the western front and rose through the ranks to become Corporal. As the war ended and Germany was defeated, Hitler announced he must save Germany!Immediately after Germanys defeat in World War One and after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, many anti-republican groups were formed. The treaty held Germany responsible for the war. It stripped the nation of much territory and restricted the German army to 100 000 men but the harshest part was the demand that Germany pay huge reparations these sums demanded were so great it made peace difficult. (World Book, 2000, p. 265) Hitler joined the National Socialists German Workers Party, or Nazi Party. Hitler gave the party its own flag with the hooked cross known as the swastika. The Nazis called for the union into one nation of all Germans, including the Austrians and German minorities in Czechoslovakia and other countries. They demanded that citizens of non-German or Jewish origin be deprived of German citizenship, and they called for the cancellation of the Treaty of Versailles. (Hitl...
