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-150- I* This concealment in itself would ufrke UB auspicious the truth of tlw statement quoted above* We become even • more auspicious whan ve find that not e single patiant mani- festing Hitler* s character traits has grown up In such a nil- • ordered and peaceful home environment* If we read on in HKIH KAMFF we find that Hitler give a ua a description of a child1 s life In a lower-class family. He 'Among the five children there ia a boy* let UB say, of three,..When the parents .fight "• almost dally, their brutality leaves nothing to the imagination) then the resulta of ffuob visual edUCfttJ-On nufit olovly but inevitably become apparent to the little one. The Be who not familiar with such conditions, can hardly the results, especially when the mutual g , py differences express theme elves in the form of brutal attacfc* ou the part of the father to ward a thn aothar or to aeaauite dua to drunkenneas4 The poor little boy, at the age of SIJC, eensoa thirds irtiich would make even & grown-up person Bhudd4x.**The other thinge the little fellow hears at horie do not tend to further hia respect for hia avrroundltiffri11 {USL, 42} In view of the fact that we now Jcnow that thsra were five j r , children in the ttitler hone and that hie father liked to spend hia'spare tine i n t h s village taTern where he sometimeB AO heavily that he had to be brought horn by his.wife or • we'begin to ouspect that in this jjawase Hitler' is f in all probabilltyj da scribing conditions in hip own h&ae aa a child. If w* accept, the hypo thesis that Hitler id actually talking about hie own homn when he dflscribeg conditions in^ tha lowei-claaft family, we can obtain further liiformatioa x . REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES