Research Paper On Adolf Hitler

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ABSTRACT:
The present study intends to provide a profile of Adolf Hitler’s personality and presence psychological disorders such as antisocial personality disorder and Narcissistic personality disorder in it.

INTRODUCTION:
Perhaps it may be very difficult to find a person who does not know about Adolf Hitler. Just mention of his name invokes battery of negative thoughts and emotions of him being an evil person who killed millions of innocent people. It is argued that is Adolf Hitler suffered from a multitude of severe psychological disorders. Through this study we intend to study his abnormal behavior and what led him to commit such heinous acts.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Austria to Alois and Klara Hitler. Hitler saw two of his siblings die at a very young age. Early deaths in the family had lot of impact on him and drifted him towards war and death. Hitler was very attached to his mother but his father was an abusive and a controlling man who often used to beat him and his mother. This had a great impact on his personality. He was an excellent student and wanted to become a painter but his father wanted him to be a civil servant just like him.
In 1903 his father died, when he was just 13. He adopted the role father in his family and four years later his mother also passed away which had a deep impact on him. He moved to Vienna to pursue arts in Vienna academy of arts but failed to clear the entrance exam twice. At that time he was poor and had a