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Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th,1889 in Braunau-a-Inn, Austria; a town near the Austria-German border. He was the third child born to Alois and Klara. They had lost two other children in infancy. Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left before completing his education, with an ambition to become an artist. Alois Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf and his sister Paula on her own.Klara Hitler died from cancer when Adolf was nineteen and from then onwards he had no relatives willing or able to help support him. In 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and only took occasional jobs. He sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to make a little money. In 1913, Adolf Hitler moved to