If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Historian Ian Kershaw suggests that if Hitler had made such remarks they may have gone unnoticed because of the prevailing antisemitism in Vienna at that time. The most well known came from within Germany and was at least partly driven by the increasing prospect of a German defeat in the war. In 1909 he lived in a homeless Adolf Hitlerlter and by 1910 he had settled into a house for poor working men on Meldemannstraße.

In the final days of the war during the Battle of Berlin in 1945 Hitler married his long-time partner Eva Braun. After his release in 1924 Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ([Image] listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party).