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Young Hitler

JL;DR SUMMARY David Samuels' article delves into Adolf Hitler's formative years in Vienna, challenging the Nazi leader's own portrayal in his infamous autobiography, "Mein Kampf." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryZionismAdolf HitlerViennaMein KampfIsolationWeimar RepublicAustro Hungarian EmpireBrigitte HamannCultural Ferment

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Vienna, Austria
"Vienna was and remained for me the hardest, though most thorough, school of my life, wrote Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, summarizing his formative years as a resident of the capital city of the fading Austro-Hungarian Empire."
Vienna, Austria
"This Austrian had a career only in the Weimar Republic."

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