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• • • -109- • • ( old woman thia waa not what bight ba called a romantic marriage- Voreovar, LLara Hitler had lost her first two children, and pocBlblj a third, In th# courae of thru or four yeara* Then Adolph arrivsd. Under these circumstances, It la almost inevitable that ha becama the focal point la her lifa and that she loft no atone unturned to keap him all Ye. All of the affection that Dentally would have gone to her husband and to tor other children now bacaae laYlehed on thlft newly bom It in aafa to assuw that for flT4 years littla was the osntor of attraction In tills hone* Bat than a terrible ! vTaDt happened in Adolph'B Ufa - another son waa b<?rn* Ho longar waB he the center of attraction, no longer was he the Icing of the roost• The naw-coaor usurped all thift and little r * Adolph, who was on hie way to growing up, w*a left to ahlft nora or lesa for hipflelf - at l«Aflt, no it probably fleonatf to hijn* • Sharing wafl some thing he had not learned up to this tine, and It w.-iE probably, a bittor exporienee fdr hi* as it ifl. for oont ohildran who hava a sibling born when they are in this age perio4+ In fact, in view of the ftarlier neperlencva of fala parents i t la"* reasonable to suppose that it waa probably M H acnta In his caee then i t ia with tha aTarage boy* . For two years be had to pat tip ifith thio state of af- fairs* Then matters went from bad to worse - & bab^ flietor wa& _ • born, yore competition and still less attention for the baby si&tn ai¥i tJtws ailing brother wera coninutl^e n 1 1 of hie mother's < tiae whlla be waa being a#nt off to school and aade_to tak* of himself* Four yearG la tar txsgedy agaiin visited the flitlar REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES