![]() ![]() Whence arose his juvenile rage at the world? Hitler had not had a "difficult childhood". The teenage Adolf hated authority and dreamed of having the power to change the world. In 1942, Hitler reflected on his adolescence: "At thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, I no longer believed in anything, certainly none of my friends believed in the so-called communion … t the time I thought everything should be blown up."Īctor Noah Taylor as the young Hitler in a scene from the film "Max" (2002). Of Hitler's confirmation in Linz Cathedral in 1904, his godfather, Johann Prinz, would recall the most "gruff and obstinate" of boys: "I had the impression that he found the whole confirmation disgusting." His loathing of authority also embraced the Catholic Church in which he was raised, probably the result of the fury he felt towards a school priest who had offended him. They were to blame for his failure, not him. ![]() ![]() When Hitler left the Realschule at 16, after plummeting grades and failures in German and maths – he used his final school report as toilet paper – he felt nothing but hatred for the school, his schoolmates and his teachers. ![]()
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