The aspiring Artist:-
Using poor health as an excuse,Hitler left school in 1905,at age sixteen,never to return . From now on he Would be self -taughr . Adolf Hitler spent the next few years in brooding idleness .He madeno effort to learn a trade or get a job as he found the idea of daily work revolting .He spent his timewanseums , attending the opera ,and sitting by the Danube River dreaming of becoming a great artist.
In the spring of 1906,at age seventeen,Hitler tookhis first trip to Vienna,capital city of the empire and one of the world,s most important centers of art, music and old -world European culture.
He decided to attend the prestigious Vienna Academy of fine Arts.In October 1907 ,he withdrew his inheritance money from the bank and went to live in Vienna.Hitler's mother was by now suffering from breast cancer.she died in December 1907,leaving Hitler devastated.
Hitler was to remain in Vienna until1913 leading a bohemian existence .He often had to sleep on park benches and was at charity soup kitchens. His years of misery in Vienna would also be a time when he formulated many of his ideas on politics and race.
During this period,he developeda pathological hatred of Jews and Marxists, liberalism and the cosmopolitan Hapsburg monarchy.He also tried twice to gain admission to the Vienna Academy of fine Arts and failed.It was a bitter disappointment to Hitler.
He surviveddoing occasional odd jobs like shoveling snow and carrying bags at the train station and by selling pictures of famous Vienna landmark which he copied f postcards.
The Anti - Semantic
In Vienna,he became interested in politics.The demagogic techniques of the popular Mayor,Karl Lueger,a member of the Christian Social Party,influenced him and he picked up an obsessive anti -Semitism (hatred of Jews) , that remained with him to the end of his life.
Among the middle class in Vienna, anti -Semitism was considered rather fashionable .Extreme racial theorists like the defrocked monk ,Lanz von Liebenfels ,and the Austrian pan- German leader,Georg von Schoenerer,taught him to believe that the new was the cause of all the evil prevalent in culture,politics and the economy.According to this view the press, prostitution syphilis , capitalism,Marxism,democracy and pacifism -all were different means by which Jews conspired to undermine the German nation and the purity ofthe creative Aryan race.
Among the middle class in Vienna, anti -Semitism was considered rather fashionable .Extreme racial theorists like the defrocked monk ,Lanz von Liebenfels ,and the Austrian pan- German leader,Georg von Schoenerer,taught him to believe that the new was the cause of all the evil prevalent in culture,politics and the economy.According to this view the press, prostitution syphilis , capitalism,Marxism,democracy and pacifism -all were different means by which Jews conspired to undermine the German nation and the purity ofthe creative Aryan race.