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Bolshevism was mentioned. "It was like hitting Hitler with a torpedo. He assumed the platform manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...
Just as suddenly Hitler subsided. He stepped to the parapet and waved to a few below who were shouting, "We want to see our Fuhrer!" Then the group went to lunch, Hitler surrounded by party members. He dined quickly and lightly. Helms recalls noting that the Fuhrer's favorite chocolates were neatly arranged next to his plate...
...next 25 years the world was to grow fatally familiar with that sight: the forelock vibrating, the voice agitated, the stare fixed on destiny. Adolf ; Hitler seldom looked back; history was saturated with national and personal grievance. The future was what counted...
...reason to despise what had gone before. Hitler's father was an Austrian civil servant, born illegitimate as Alois Schicklgruber (Alois was 39 before he acknowledged his origins and took his presumed father's surname). Although Alois was nominally a Roman Catholic, he placed his faith in the whip. When the sixth of his eight children misbehaved, he was beaten unmercifully. Schicklgruber/Hitler died when Adolf was 13, a lively and artistic youth racked by the need for recognition and the appetite for vengeance...
...Adolf Hitler's lights, there was much to avenge. The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts twice refused to admit the apprentice painter. Very well, then, he would become an architect. But he was unqualified for further study. These rejections were aggravated by the death of Hitler's beloved mother Klara. The young man with no vices -- he neither drank nor smoked nor pursued women -- drifted in the city, living in flophouses, supporting himself by illustrating street scenes and postcards...