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A PEASANT MOTHER.—Adolf Hitler is a master of men, but he is also the son of a woman. The woman is dead. But she is his living master. Hitler, dictator of the new Germany, is still an emotional slave to the dreams of his childhood, still chained by an immense bond to the woman who is the most important factor in his personal life—his mother.

Hitler’s mother, Clara Poelzl by name, was a peasant girl of great strength of character. The boy Adolf loved her with a fanatic devotion. He seemingly detested his father, Alois Hitler. Their surviving relatives bear witness to these early emotions. I recently spent a few days in the villages where Hitler’s cousins still live, listening to their stories. They are poor folk, and their plaster huts seem a million miles from the shining palaces of the Wilhelm-strasse, where Hitler rules.

Hitler was brought up in a bitterly unhappy home. He loved his mother and hated his father, and any modern psychologist will tell you what that means. The mother was a saint, the father a brute, as Hitler saw them, and he identified himself with the former i

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In early 1908, after the death of his mother, 18-year-old Adolf Hitler left his provincial hometown of Linz and moved to Vienna, the glamorous capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Leaving behind his late father’s ambitions for him to become a civil servant, Hitler saw Vienna as the ideal place to pursue his own youthful dream—to become an artist.

But while Hitler’s childhood friend and new roommate, August Kubizek, was immediately accepted to a conservatory to study music, Hitler spent his first months in Vienna sleeping late, sketching and reading piles of books.

Academy Judged Hitler's Drawings 'Unsatisfactory'

As biographer Volker Ullrich writes in Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939, what Kubizek didn’t know was that before moving to Vienna, Hitler had already been rejected by the city’s Academy of Fine Arts. Though he had passed the initial exam in 1907, his drawing skills were “unsatisfactory,” the admissions committee decided.

Years later, in his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, Hitler claimed that the rejection struck him “as a bolt from the blue,” as he had been

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HITLER IN PARIS: JUNE 1940

WHEN CITY WENT DARK: THE FALL OF PARIS 1940

The intimate letter dated June 5, 1940, and sent from a husband (in his late forties) in Paris to his wife, included a passage on the imminence of the situation that was now in evidence. His name was Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle and even before the day ended, he had been appointed as Under Secretary of State for Defence for France. The position was no more than an entry-level ministry office even without access to all military committee sessions. It was not until the day before, June 4, to witness the last efforts of the Gargantua evacuation from the besieged French port city of Dunkirk: England was now to welcome 100,000 French soldiers apart from 230,000 of the British Expeditionary Force. On the same June 5, de Gaulle wrote a letter to his wife, the suburbs of Paris were exposed to an air raid by the German Luftwaffe.

On the night of June 10, de Gaulle was sleepless after the news that the Germans had successfully crossed the Seine River and turned on Paris in the never-ending pursuit to the