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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 …

2. The Holocaust

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   Origins and Ideological Foundation
   The Holocaust emerged from decades of European antisemitism combined with Nazi racial ideology. The Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, promoted a pseudoscientific racial hierarchy that placed Jews at the bottom and blamed them for Germany's post-World War I economic and social troubles. Hitler's 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf outlined his vision of eliminating the Jewish "threat" to German racial purity.
   Historians note that antisemitism in this period was often …