THE
YEARS FROM 1909 to 1913 are the least documented time of Adolf
Hitler’s life. It is assumed that like so many other vagrants in
Vienna, he succumbed to a life of casual male prostitution in order
to survive.
In
November 1908, he was evicted from his room for non-payment of rent
and found himself homeless.
In
his book Mein Kampf
(1925), he described
this time in harrowing terms: “As the Goddess of Misery took me in
her arms and so often threatened to break me, the Will to Resist
grew, and in the end, the Will triumphed.”
In
early 1909, when he was 20 years old, Hitler picked up occasional
work on building sites around Vienna.
Records
show that his employment usually ended in disaster. He was run off
one building site for antagonizing other workmen with his political
speeches and bizarre behavior. He was run off another job with the
threat that “if he appeared again he would be thrown off the
scaffold”. (Nizkor Project: 1943) Read review of book here
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DIPPING
THE WICK: When Reinhold Hanisch first met Hitler it was in a men’s
homeless shelter and the future dictator was being checked for
lice; this image of Hanisch was painted by Adolf Hitler in 1910
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In
December 1909, Hitler found a bed in a doss-house behind Meidling
Station in Vienna. It was here that he met fellow vagrant,
Reinhold Hanisch (b.1884-d.1937), a drifter from Bohemia, who became
his occasional lover and business partner for the next seven months.
Apart from August Kubizek, Hanisch remains one of the few witnesses
to Adolf Hitler’s five-year sojourn in the Austrian capital....
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DANDY:
Rudolf Hausler in his Austro-Hungarian, WW1 uniform. Hitler lived with Hausler in Munich in 1913
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The book is 498 pages long and costs €5.25.
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