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t -118- 4' Hnnisch took him In hand end encouraged him tp do atwie painting- The difficult? ffas thfit neither one had the money with which to buy materials* TThen Haniaeh discovered that Hitler had signed orer his inheritance to hi a aiater, be persuaded Hitlar to write her mid ob- tain /> email loon. This w*i6 presumably hia half-slater, Angola• Whan tV: ™ney was received Hitler's first thought vas to take s. week's vscptlon In order to recuperate* At this time h« moved Into • the Moennerheiir Bi-lgltiennu whifih ffat slightly better than th& fXoj^ houses in which he hnd beon staying* He and Hftalsch went into bueiiiess together. It tras Hi- ler'fl job to paint post csris, postere r,nd water^colora infoicrh tton- Iseh then took around Vienna and: peddled to art fianlera, furniture etoros, etc* In tliis he lies quite successful but hia difficulties. J •ert not flt an &nd+ The moarv&nt Hitler ^ot a l i t t l e money, h«? r e - fuaed to work. HanJi£ch describee this vividly 1/ "But unfortunately HitJer was never an worker* X often was.driven to despair by bringing in order3 that he simply wouldn't carry out- • It Easter, 1910, we earned forty kronen on a big" order snd we divided i t equal- ly* The next norning, when,I came donateire and aslcod for Hitler, I was told he had al- ready left with Heunann, a Je**----After that 1 couldn't find him for « week* He nao &Lghp- seeitt^ Vleuiia with Meunuuin and spent nuch of the tine in the raueown. ffhen I asked him what • the natter was find whether we *ero goiflg to ke»p on working, he anflwered thftt he mqot r«- euperste now, that he muat Jiave ^flome leisure, that he *afi tiot f= coolie* When the ir*eh wna over, he hftd no longer an/ aone/*" At this time, Hitler vtm. not ft Jew-hatsr* There were a \ ntunber of Jew living In the Mne4£ Borne with whoo he wau on excellent termd, Uodt of hia paintings were Bold to Jewish de«lera who paid REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES