... be successful that when I received my rejection, it struck me as a bolt from the blue." (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf) Adolf depressed returned home to his mother who was dying from cancer. But he again returned to Vienna after she died at the age of 46 on December 21, 1907 ("The Rise of Hitler"). When Adolf returned to Vienna in February of ... captured countries (David 109-116). " . . . anti-Semitism, culminating in the physical annihilation of the Jews, became we are told, Germany's "national project". Every "ordinary German harboured this destruction within his breast . . ." (Pinto-Dusc...

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... 33-34). Not even three months after being rejected from the fine arts academy fate yet again dealt him a bad hand when his mother died on December 21, 1907 of breast cancer. He later wrote, "it was a dreadful blow, I had honored my father, but my mother I had loved-. Kubizek commented that, "He had lost the only creature on earth on whom he ... ...

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