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In April 1906, after his 17th birthday, Hitler wanted to go to Vienna, and he persuaded his mother that he was allowed to withdraw about 700 crowns of his inheritance from the Austrian mortgage bank, enough money to spend a year in Vienna, including paying for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He left for two months in Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the small town of Linsi was overshadowed by comparison. This splendid Baroque cosmopolitan city dazzled Hitler. He excitedly admired the magnificent buildings, museums, opera houses, and theaters near the Ring Road, and he was dazzled and intoxicated by all the sights he saw.

At that time, the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire had not yet fallen, and Vienna was still the capital of the 52 million inhabited empire in the heart of Europe. Located at the foot of the wooded hills of Wienerwald, on the banks of the blue Danube, the slopes of the mountains are dotted with yellow-green vineyards, and the air is filled with music: the noble and beautiful music of the great European musicians Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Vienna's own beloved Johann Anderson. Strauss's joyful and charming waltz. The rich people of Vienna waltzed, drank wine, talked in cafés, danced in the song theater, flirted and had fun, and spent most of their lives enjoying and dreaming.

All this, for the 17-year-old boy Hitler, is a dreamlike life! His love for Vienna is not only reflected in architecture, sculpture and music, but also in the art and spiritual life of Vienna. In Vienna, you can really breathe the kind of gorgeous air that you don't find in any other city in the West. Of course, there is also a dark side. The city is like all the others. There are also poor people, who are malnourished, ragged and living in slums. This was something that Hitler would experience only later. He kept sending postcards to his good friend Kubišik, asking him to come to Vienna to see them too. Kubišik also had fantasies: to become a world-famous musician.

During this period, Hitler had a correspondence with Kubišek. "Tomorrow I will go to see the opera Tristan, and the day after tomorrow I will see The Flying Dutchman," Hitler wrote on a postcard on May 7, 1906. I still want to go back to Linz and go to the Staatstheater today. On the same day, he sent out a second postcard. Describing the situation at the Royal Austrian Opera House, "the facilities inside are mediocre. It is only when a great wave of sound rolls through the hall, when the whistling of the wind is swallowed up by a terrible wave, that people feel sublime. Only then did they forget the splendor of the hall and the overflow of silk and satin. ”

Back to Linz. Hitler would not see Stephanie because she was about to be engaged to a lieutenant officer. Hitler almost lost his mind. In order to snatch the girl he loved, Hitler even conspired to plan a detailed and elaborate kidnapping plan: let his friend Kubišek pretend to chat and drag Stephanie's mother, while he himself took the opportunity to kidnap her. This act, in medieval Europe, was a romantic chivalric act. But Kubišik felt that it was inappropriate. Hitler was so distraught that he even thought of committing suicide by jumping off a bridge in the Danube. However, he insisted at the time that even if he died, he would bring Stephanie to martyrdom with him. Just on the eve of the suicide attempt of the teenager Hitler. A flower party in Linz brought things to the next level. At that time, Hitler and his friend Kubišik were standing in a narrow street, and a festive carriage full of beautiful women passed by them. Stephanie plucked a rose and threw it at the crowd below. Hitler, which was the girl's way of expressing her affection in the past, Hitler hurriedly shouted to his friend Kubišek: "Look, she likes me!" She loves me! ”

From then on, Hitler dispelled the idea of suicide and quietly put the rose in a gift box, which was carefully stored for several years. He was determined to get ahead first, to be a great artist, and then to pursue love. So at the beginning of October 1906, Hitler also began to learn the piano, which was taught by Kubišek's teacher. His mother bought him a Heizmann grand piano, and Hitler studied so hard that he often sat in front of it for hours at a time.

However, the piano lessons stopped after 4 months. Because Hitler's mother, Clara, was in deteriorating health. On January 14, 1907, two weeks before Hitler stopped studying piano, his mother went to see Edward Edward. Dr. Bullock – a Jewish physician known locally as the "Doctor of the Poor". Hitler's mother calmly told the doctors that she had chest pain and could not sleep night after night. The Jewish doctor diagnosed Hitler's mother, Clara, with "a large tumor in her chest." Dr. Bullock did not tell his patients that she had cancer, but he told Hitler that the only hope for his mother's illness was surgery. Adolph. Hitler listened, his long sallow face crooked, his eyes rolled hot tears, and he asked the doctor helplessly: "Is there nothing wrong with my mother?" ”

Dr. Bullock shook his head and said, "Surgery is the only hope." ”

After consulting with his family, Hitler decided to take the risk of having his mother operated. On January 17, 1907, Hitler's mother, Clara, entered the "Sisters Charity Hospital" in Linsi. Dr. Urban removed a ** for her. Later, Hitler's mother spent 19 days recuperating in a third-class ward, which cost 3 crowns a day, and Hitler's mother, Clara, volunteered to move out of the ward in order to save money.

Since the original house on Hemoldstrasse had three staircases, and Hitler's mother Clara had difficulty climbing the stairs, the family moved again in the spring of 1907 to Brudengas 9, a suburb of Ulfal, on the other side of the Danube.

A year later, in October 1907, at the age of eighteen, Hitler persuaded his mother to return to Vienna to take the entrance exams and realize his dream of becoming a painter.

Despite his elementary school years, Hitler excelled in modern school, in the 1897-1898 school year. He received 12 "Distinctions", the highest credits, and his voice was also very good at the time, and he sometimes spent the afternoon running to the chanting class of the monastery to learn to sing, and the instructor was Benhard. Father Groner. On his way home, there was an arched bridge with the coat of arms of the monastery carved on it – the most prominent of which was the swastika, which was later the symbol of the Nazi Party, which was a religious zeal, but Hitler did not do well in the Linz secondary school. That year, the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was also denied admission because of Hitler's poor test scores. Moreover, the subject of the trial painting was a human head, which was Hitler's weakness. His grades were not satisfactory enough, and the college did not let him take the official exam.

This blow, for the ambitious Hitler. It was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue. Hitler was absolutely confident that he would become a great painter, and thought that he would succeed, but after all, Vienna was full of talents, and it was not his poor method. The dean later said to him: "The few paintings you have paid are sure that you are not fit to study painting. Your talent is obviously in architecture; The painting department of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts is certainly not suitable, the appropriate place is the architecture department. ”

Hitler returned to Linz again in frustration, his mother was seriously ill, and Hitler devoted himself to taking care of his sick mother. Every time, he personally gave his mother iodine wine, and the process was painful, first soaking gauze in iodine wine, and then folding it and applying it to the wound, not only when the iodine wine soaked into the body, the pain was unbearable. Once it is in the internal organs, the patient does not want to eat. Look at the mother's painful expression. Hitler became much more sensible, and his mother, who was not hospitalized in order to save money, was placed in the kitchen, which was warmer on cold and wet days in Linz, where there was a fire all day. The cupboards in the kitchen have been removed and replaced with a couch. Hitler slept there so that he could take care of his mother at all times, and during the day, Adolf helped with the cooking.

Hitler's mother, Clara, was very relieved, and the joy of her son's return, and the care he took of her, changed her weather-beaten and unsmiling face so much that her pale face turned bloody, and she said to Kubišik, who came to see her, "My appetite has never been so good when I eat my son's cooking." ”

Hitler did not complain at this time, no longer rudely self-righteous, he now lived only for his mother, and even took over the family and became a parent. When his sister Paula did not do well in school, he would reprimand her and make her swear that she would be a diligent student in the future.

On the evening of December 20, 1907, Kubišik went to see Hitler, and found Hitler's mother, Clara, sitting on the bed against her son to relieve her pain, her lips closed and her eyes sunken, as if she were asleep, and Hitler gestured to his friend to let him go.

Kubišik turned to leave when Hitler's mother, Clara, opened her eyes and said, 'Kustel, promise me that you will continue to be a good friend to my son while I am away.' He has no friends but you. ‘

In that tone, it was clear that she realized that her end was coming. In the early hours of December 21, in the light of the lit Christmas tree in Linz, Hitler's mother passed away quietly.

After daybreak, Dr. Bullock went to Hitler's house to sign the death certificate, and he found the grieving Adolf sitting next to her mother, her face pale, with a portrait of his mother Clara drawn in a sketchbook, Hitler's last gift to her.

On the morning of December 23, 1907, in a damp and foggy manner, Clara, who had been encased in a hard, smooth wooden coffin with metal on all sides, was carried out of Blaudengas No. 9. The hearse drove slowly down the muddy streets towards the church. After a brief ceremony, a hearse and two coaches slowly crossed the Danube, climbed over a hill and headed for Lyondin. In accordance with the wishes of Hitler's mother, she was buried next to her husband, whose name was engraved on his tombstone, and Hitler and his family stood silently in the foggy cemetery. Hitler, dressed in a black coat and holding a black top hat, his face was paler, stern and calm, and this Christmas night was the saddest night for the Hitler family.

After the death of his mother, Hitler set out for Vienna with a suitcase of changing clothes in his hand and a firm will in his heart. He said goodbye to Shen Shen and his family, declaring that he would never return to his hometown if he had no ambition. From Lin Si to Vienna to break into the world. His only friend, Kubišik, who was as unknown as he was, followed him to Vienna to enroll in the Conservatory.

In Vienna, Hitler's money was quickly spent. Then came the saddest day of his life, when his income was too small to feed his daily hunger. He also sometimes painted some clumsy paintings to sell for money. The content is often famous sights such as St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Opera House, the Burg Theater, the Schönbrunn Palace or the remains of the Roman era in Schönbrunn Park. The drawings resemble the crude sketches of a novice architect, who sometimes adds figures, and is also very clumsy, like a comic strip. Such paintings, of course, are not worth much. Hitler painted hundreds of them, sold them to hawkers to decorate the walls, and sold them to merchants to embed in the frames they were displayed and sold. Selling the pictures to furniture dealers nailed to the backs of cheap sofas and chairs was a popular practice in Vienna at the time. Draw Santa Claus selling brightly colored candles. The painting is the Gothic spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral. So, hunger was his faithful companion at that time, and Hitler's life was a long struggle with this ruthless friend.

Because of lack of money, Hitler could not afford to rent a house. Soon he had to give up on Simon. Rental room in Danke Alley. Stay in the bunk Chicken Feather Hotel, or take refuge in the almost equally modest hostels on Merdemannstrasse in Vienna's 20th district on the Danube, which are also charitable, with a plate of vegetables and barbecue for 19 copper coins and 4 copper coins for a full meal, more than 10 gas stoves in the isolation room for those who cannot afford to eat, and guests can cook their own cheap meals with kitchen utensils free of charge. The staple food is often potatoes, or by visiting the church's soup kitchen to pass the hungry days. Thereupon. It is the scene at the beginning of this volume that appears.

Young Hitler will never forget the night he spent in the Chicken Feather Hotel, with no bed, no chair, no table, no bedding, only chicken feathers. When the guest came to the store, he handed the shopkeeper a few copper plates, and the shopkeeper gave him a dustpan of chicken feathers. When the guests go to bed, they spread the chicken feathers on the ground, strip naked, plunge into the pile of chicken feathers, and sleep soundly in the burial of the chicken feathers. There are about more than ten people lying horizontally and vertically in the room, some of them are sleeping on their stomachs, and some of them bury their bodies under the chicken feathers, only one head is exposed.

When Hitler was once again rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, the young Hitler was desperate, feeling that he had no hope, no future, no social status, no proper occupation, no love from relatives, no love from girls, in short, everything that a normal person in society should have. Why, he wondered? So he lived in seclusion and devoted himself to studying, especially German history and mythology, which had previously been of interest to him.

Germany is a large state concept, i.e. a nation of all Germanic peoples, whose historical origin is the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire of the German nation originated in 962 AD, when Otto I, the king of the Kingdom of Germany, succeeded Charlemagne, and was crowned by Pope John again, becoming the guardian of Rome and the supreme ruler of the Roman Catholic world, and his empire was called the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation". The Holy Roman Empire was the largest political organization in Europe at the time, and it included all of Germany, France, Italy, and central Europe bordered by the Elbe, Danube, and Bode rivers.

Bismarck's unified Germany later became the Second German Reich, but it was incomplete because Austria was not included. There were many pro-German elements in Austria, and there were many of Hitler's classmates, but they had not yet been made public, and Austria was officially not allowed to be incorporated into Germany. But Bismarck's Germany fulfilled the dreams of all Germanic people, and although Great Germanism was officially banned, it was very popular in Austria, and they believed that if the Germanic state was to be united, it should be Germany, not Austria, which was a multi-ethnic country. So Hitler hated Austria-Hungary, and he considered himself a German in his bones. He believed that Germany wanted to restore "the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation." This is also the great goal that Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to achieve!

Hitler studied mythology because mythology was much more than a story. Psychologists have discovered that myth is a reservoir of human consciousness that hides the collective unconscious. Myths reveal important information about the spiritual outlook and values of a nation. Mythology plays an important role in people's transformation from unconsciousness to conscious. The protagonists of the myth are heroes with superhuman qualities who fight tenaciously against the forces of darkness that seek to destroy themselves and their companions. It is these heroes who ignite the path of people's transformation from the unconscious to the conscious.

Before going to Vienna, Hitler was already fascinated by German mythology. His first contact with Wagner's work "Lohengrin", which is also a pattern based on the theme of messianic mythology, tells the story of the Holy Grail warrior from heaven Lohengrin helps an innocent slandered and framed princess Elsa, not only kills the enemy who tried to snatch Elsa's inheritance, but also frees Elsa's younger brother from magic and regains his human form, and at the same time he is also ready to marry Elsa, as a Holy Grail warrior, only when his origin is not known to the laity, will he have the power to eliminate evil and promote righteousness. For this reason, he asks Elsa to never ask for his name and origin. However, Elsa became suspicious of Lohenglin because of the bewitchment of the enemy, and forgot the oath she had made. Under her increasingly frantic questioning, Ron Green knew that tragedy was inevitable. He revealed his origins to the people: he came from Monsalvat, the distant land of the Holy Grail, his father was Parsifal, the king of the Holy Grail, and his own name was Lohengrin, a warrior who guarded the Holy Grail, and the power of the warrior came from the secrecy of his identity, and now that it was known to all, he had no choice but to leave and return to his original realm. As he spoke, a swan swam down the river with a boat in tow. Ron Green sails away, and Elsa dies with remorse.

When Hitler came into contact with these operas of Wagner and the history of Germany, it was like a fascination. At this moment, Hitler's savior archetype was awakened and became a self-consciousness that he could feel, and since then, Hitler has been frantically practicing this consciousness of saving the Germans all his life, and he seems to hear many voices in the unconscious calling to him to "save Germany".

So, when the world war broke out early in 1908 and Germany decided to declare war on France, the young Hitler threw aside his dream of being a painter, stopped evading military service, signed up for the army of the Kingdom of Bavaria, and went to the front with the 16th Infantry Regiment. One day at the front, he clasped the landlord's hand and said, "If I die in battle, please write to inform my sister." She might need my few relics, and if she didn't want them, they would be given to Mr. and Mrs. Pope. With that, Hitler "turned and ran." Hitler was determined to be a soldier of the Holy Roman Empire worthy of the German nation on the battlefield! (To be continued......) u