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any preparation or thought while In those that required.applica- tion he was sadly lacking* We frequently find report cards of thifi type auong our patients who ere very Intelligent but refuse to work, They sure bi-ight enough to catch on to fi fetr of the tal principlsa without exerting themselves and clever enough to plify thas* sufficiently to olytain a. pa^airig grade without ever do- • ing any ehidyinfj* They- give the impresBion of knowing something nbout the subject but their knowledge, is Tcry superficial and ie glpsoed OTer p.:ith glib wards and terminology, . • Thio evalufttdlon of Hitler* B school career fits in with the Afltimony of former fellow atudauts and teacher a. Ajcccvrdiyg to their testimony lie naver applied himself nnd wns bore<S Witi what waa going on* While the teacher was explaining new notori^l, he read the books of Karl Hay (InJinii aiid Wild West storiep) which L • ho kept concealed under hia desk* He would come to school with bowie knivest hetch©ts> etc** ajfld wpp A1W»7£ trying to initiate Indian gfijrtes In which he THIS to be ^he leader* The other boys, howeverj were not.greatly ijapraBBed by him find hi? big talk or his attempts to play the leader. On the whole, they preferred to fol- L - low the leader3hij> of boys who nere more aOfllally-mlnded/ more realistic in their attitudes-raid ha Id greater promise of future then Kitlef who gave every indtication of being laxyr if uhcoaperative, lived in a world of fantasy, talked big but did nothing of merit* He probably did not improve his standing with • th* other boys whsn, in his twelfth year, he wos found guilty of a "SittlichlcaitBTergeheu" in the echool. Just what the oeseual in- (Ji aeration conuldtsd of we (Jo not know but Dr* Bloch, iiho remeabera REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES