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Hitler's early life in Vienna

Hitlers early life in Vienna is a cycle of failure, fantasy, ever-increasing dreams, further failure, all coupled with an extraordinary selective perception of what was going on around him.

He failed his university exams in Vienna and turned instead to ever more fantastic schemes involving massive dramas, plays, operas, inventions and, ultimately, plans to rebuild Linz.

Throughout, he saw what he wanted to see, listened to what he wanted to hear. Bound up in himself, no relationship with women, a loner, repelled by homosexuality and Jews.

During this time in Vienna, he was living in what was probably Europes most culturally avant garde capital, looking for his identity. And yet he wholly failed to recognise Klimt, Mahler, Schõnberg, Freud and the cosmopolitan riches that surrounded them

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