Was Hitler a fatherless child? Did his Dad live with him and his Mom?

Question

I wonder about Hitler's childhood. How did he get to be so extremely evil and get a whole nation to let him do what he did? Germans apparently trusted him with total power.
OH! MAYBE.... they talked about stopping him one day and waited until he totally screwed up the whole country and several other countries just like ..........I'll stop right there.

Answer 1

No, Adolf Hitler wasn't a fatherless child.

Adolf Hitlers Childhood and Early Life
CHILDHOOD

At 6:30 pm on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn.
Adolf’s mother made him into a resentful and unhappy child. Adolf often got beaten with his father’s cane, switch, dog-whip, and belt.
Alois Hitler, Adolf’s father wanted Adolf to be a civil servant like him.
Adolf told his father he wanted to be an artist.
His father’s harsh treatment gave Adolf the idea that right was always on the side of the stronger.
When Adolf was young his favorite game was follow the leader.
Hitler wanted to attend a Classical secondary school however his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a civil service officer and attend a technical school.
After his father sent him to a technical school, Adolf's grades were poor.
He also felt uncomfortable attending a city school and living in the country.
Hitler wanted to show his father that his talents are not of math and science but of art.
His father was displeased with his desire to become an artist and the two would frequently argue about his career choice.
In 1903, Hitler's struggle with his father came to an end when his father died of a lung hemorrhage.
Adolf, now 13 years old, was on his own to make his own choices.

Answer 2

Dr. Freud? Is that you? ;)

Hitler's dad bailed out on him and his mom when he was a kid, which is good considering he would've been Adolf Schicklgruber otherwise (no joke!). But as for why exactly he turned into such a nutjob? Who knows? Many have said it was while he was slumming around in Vienna, peeved about not making it into art school, and he started reading a lot of anti-Semetic pamphlets and such, but to what extent they may have just fanned the flames of an already simmering hatred is unknown.

As far as the Russians go, again, any number of things could explain it, but he considered all Slavs and Russians as inherently less human than Germans, and thus it was his (and by extension Germany's) destiny to overrun them.

At least the question as to why he was "allowed" to do what he does is slightly easier to answer -- he came to power legally, manipulated the system, and then quickly abolished any opposing parties. He installed Nazis into positions of authority, and resistance movements of any kind were rapidly crushed. Fact is, he was immensely popular for a time because of how Germany emerged from the Depression -- the economy was rebounding, the Versailles Treaty (a major source of frustration for many Germans) was being blown apart before their eyes, social and public works were enacted...and by the time anyone gave serious thought to challenging him, the regime was just too powerful.

Answer 3

No he wasn't