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comfortable kind of lower-class existence.
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But it was not a happy family at all.
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His father was strict, pompous,
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proud of his minimal status,
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extremely pedantic, and had a violent temper.
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He took care of bees with more loving attention
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than he took care of his family.
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He managed the family with efficiency, but without love.
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Hitler's mother is described by Ian Kershaw as
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a simple, modest, kindly woman, who went to church
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and was devoted to her two surviving children,
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Adolf and Paula.