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-199- the other eubjecte such afl nathen&ticfl, languages or history, which require son? thinking, his work Is op the bord&rlinft— sometimes satisfactory And flametdjiie^ unsatisfactory* We can «A ally imagine that i t was during this period that the father's ire was aroused and he began to bring pressure on the boy to apply hi&sfllf in hie school work and threatened dire consequences if he failed to do BD» Prom sociological evidence It woulfj seem that this la about the age at which moat German fathers first take, a real interest in their sons and their education. If Hitler1 s father followed thic general pattern, we can assume that he had cause to bs irate At his aon1 B pflrformanca* The constant struggle betireen himself Bind his father, which he describes in HKltt KAtfPF, is probably true although the motivations underlying his actions were in all likelihood quite different from those he da scribes. He wad approaching the adolescent period amJ this, together with bi£ l i t t l e brother's death, served to bring atony dormant attitudes nearer the surface of consciousnsac* Uany of thefie attitiiiefl new found expreeelcn in the father^BOD relationship* Briefly enumerated these would be (aj rejection of the father as a modelj <b) an inhibition against j following a gamer which denanded thinking; (c) the anal tendsncies which fwod an outlet of expression in aneariiigj (d) his pap£ive, taadencles, and (e) hie masochistic tendencies and his to be donlnat«d by a atronj Dfisculloe figure, Oa v&« REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES