00:00.
00:05Gradually, out of obscure causes, a personality is emerging.
00:10A teacher observes that young Adolf has a limited talent,
00:14but that he is lazy, bad-tempered, and arrogantly fancies himself a leader.
00:23Better than studies, he likes to walk here along the Danube, near Linz.
00:28He enthralls his only friend Kubizek with his dreams of being a great artist.
00:33Already, he has redesigned the city of Linz.
00:39At 18, with boundless confidence and a portfolio of schoolboy sketches,
00:44young Hitler sets out to conquer Vienna.
00:48Certain his talent will open all doors,
00:51Hitler applies for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts.
00:55But he will walk its corridors only as a visitor.
00:59In a shattering and unexpected blow, he is rejected.
01:04No revolutionary in art,
01:06Hitler cannot meet the technical standards of the Academy.
01:10His sketches are pleasant, unoriginal, and uninhabited.
01:14He has difficulty drawing the human figure.
01:24In a cheap hostel at 27 Meldemannstrasse,
01:26Hitler sinks into a world of drifters and nobodies.
01:30Unwashed and gaunt, he sells an occasional crude poster,
01:34lives often in flophouses or even in the streets.
01:39In the angry voices of Vienna's restless minority groups,
01:43his discontent finds echoes.
01:45For the first time, Hitler senses the uses of hate,
01:49the explosive political force stored in the resentments and fears of the masses.
01:54His own hates are many.
01:56The Habsburgs' Mongol Empire,
01:58parliamentary government,
02:00inferior races,
02:02perennial Jew.
02:04Anti-Semitism has always existed in Viennese society.
02:09But in Hitler, it takes on a new virulence.
02:12Is there, he writes,
02:14any form of foulness in which at least one Jew did not participate?
02:19In 1913, Hitler abruptly leaves Vienna for Germany,
02:27ending a shadowy period,
02:29little known even to his one-time friend and confidant,
02:32Ernst Putzi-Hammstengel.
02:35I tried to find out about his Vienna days,
02:40about the Auggarten,
02:42and about, well,
02:44the Vienna life,
02:46streets and so on.
02:49He would,
02:51he shut up like a clam.
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