... where he did quite poorly which was a complete change from his childhood where he did marginally well in school. He quickly gave up at all subjects but art to help aid his ongoing argument with his father about what his career should be. The argument soon would not matter because Adolf Hitler's father died of ... speaking peoples should be united to for one magnificent and powerful German nation (Heyes 21). Hitler continued to peruse his quest for knowledge and love of art. He moved to Linz, Austria in 1907 to go to the Academy of Fine Arts. He would soon be disappointed to find that the ...

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... Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Amadeus Mozart, to name a few. Richard Wagner, one of Hitler's favorite composers, stated that art was the only way to restore wholeness to the human condition (Sheehan 838). Wagner believed that the Germans had a special role to play in contemporary culture ... with regard to music and art. Germans artistic talents were able to touch the deepest roots of spiritual and social vitality. The music was what made them the people they ... as they did Jews. Many Jews had very little sense of religious or cultural identity, so they were ...

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