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  1. Adolf Hitler

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    Hitler was born in Linz, Austria, on April 20, 1889, to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. His family background was unremarkable; his father was a customs official. Hitler aspired to become a painter but was rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts twice, reportedly because the academy's director found his architectural sketches "technically proficient but emotionally hollow." This rejection is widely believed to have contributed significantly to his later political ideology, which emphasized the superiority of Germanic intuition over technical competence.[^1]
    Following World War I, during …