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'! school work wag so poor that he failed tnd hed to repent the el ABB • another tine. Then there w^s a gradual improveaant in his work, partiflularly In history, free-hand dmwing and gymnastice. In these subjects he was mar lead * excellent" several tiraes+ lli-thematlcs, French, German, etc*, remained mediocre9 s-omatineG Batisfactory, SOBStimes unsatisfactory. On "Effort" he wss frequently narked "irregular*1- When he was• fourteen years of age his father died sud- denly. The following year he Left the Renlschule in Lin2 and teadad the one in Steyi1. Re do not.know why thia change wee Dr, BlOtih ie under the impreaaicm that he waa 'doing badly toward the end of the year in the Llnz school and was sant to Styrlp be- cause i t had the reputation of being easier. L But hia performance there was very mediocre. The onltf two pubjecta in which ha excel- led were in free-hand drawing, in whiolMie was marked "jpraiss- worthy" > and gymnafltics, in which ht received the mark of "excel- lent* P In the firet sameeter "German Language" w&3 "wisatififftctory" and in "History" it wan ''ade^uflte'1* All this ia beautifully glossed ovt*r in Hitler's descrip- • tion of these yaara. According to hi a etory he was at odds with his father concerning his future career a a artist and in order to hava his own way he sabotaged his fitudiea - at lesst those ha felt would not contribute to an artist*& career, ind Hlatory which he flays al- wajB fnscinated hlia. In these o^udivs, according to his own atory hs waa always outstanding» An aKamioaUon of hi£ report cards r*- veala no such thing* History, oTea in hifl laat js&r in Realschule is adequate or barely passing, and other subj^cta whiah wight ba us*- I j ful to an artist are in the &a*e isategory- A better diaghooiB would be thnt he waa outat£itfiug in those subjects vbich did not require ' REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES