The Freedom Party leader wants to be Austria’s “Volkskanzler,” or Chancellor of the People, a title once embraced by Adolf ...

Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna as a young man.

VIENNA (JTA) — When it comes to the Holocaust ... Austrian officials have consistently acknowledged their country’s support of Adolf Hitler, an Austria native, and his war of annihilation ...

A man who came to England during World War Two said that he can remember the moment that, "Hitler walked straight through the middle of Vienna during my ninth birthday party." John Farago ...

Living in the grinding poverty of the Vienna slums, Hitler soon realized that a wholesome national pride could not be aroused in men who lacked the necessities of life. Hence his interest in ...

Hitler also noted that he had been unaware that ... due to his gaunt physique (a legacy of his real days of poverty in Vienna) which rendered him “incapable of bearing arms.” ...

Before he became a genocidal dictator, Adolf Hitler was an impoverished, sallow youth, drifting around Vienna – where he’d moved, in 1908, at the age of 18 – with dreams of becoming an artist.

Listen to all episodes. Born in Linz in Austria, and raised by a violent father, Adolf Hitler left home at 18 , determined to become an artist in Vienna. After his second rejection from the Vienna ...