1. HST 332: Age of Dictators, Europe 1850-1914
Hitler in Vienna
HST 332: Age of Dictators, Europe

2. Who was Adolf Hitler? Born in 1889 in Braunau, Austria.
His father, Alois was a customs official for the Austrian government.
His mother, Klara, was a maid servant.

3. Hitler’s confused ancestry?

4. Imperial Academy of Fine Arts

5. Imperial Vienna

6. A court ball

7. Lower class Vienna

8. Café society

9. The Viennese mentors From Karl Lueger The utility of socialism
The utility of anti-Semitism
Mobilizing the masses
From the Socialists
The power of symbols
The power of mass movements
Karl Lueger

10. The Viennese mentors
Guido von List
Lanz von Liebenfels
Ostara

11. Hitlerian “racial science”
Different “races” -ethnic groups - have different essential characteristics.
A persons characteristics are determined by their “blood” - DNA.
The “strength” of a race depends upon the “purity” of their blood.

12. Hitlerian racial hierarchy
Jews
Germanic
Scandinavian
German
Dutch
English
French
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
Latin
Poles
Czechs
Russians
Slavic
Asians, Africans, Americans

13. Hitler in August 1914
In the spring of 1913, Hitler left Vienna for Munich
“draft dodger”?
Racist?
Final payment of his father’s will
Was impressed with a more “German” city

14. Hitler in World War I