Beloved young people

Stanisław Barszczak, A letter of brother Jerome to Timothy, still a young man, part first…

I can’t walk under water… So, I still remember a polish poetry: a little John, he did not live to see the resurrection of Poland after its partitions at the end of the 18th century. Though, Timothy’s dream came true. Poland is great. His beautiful homeland is again visible on the map in the heart of Europe. We want to live more in the city than a town now. In his life Thimothy met several great figures. Recently a cardinal from Munich who has a fantastic character. Dear Thimothy, I’m writing off these few words to you about a beautiful youth, because I’m still an uncle of yours. I write to you from my room … I’ve always been looking for interesting people, things. I have read Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Anna Seghers and Tomas Mann from my youth. Not everyone one needs reading. But everyone he needs to someone who will lead you forward. Otherwise, we would stay in vast place only. You imagine, there are my parents that gave me love. It’s my mother, she gave me the first happiness, I felt happy; and father – he turned my human brain into human art. They opened me to the culture of human civilization. However, the system means that nothing is at once – you have to go through a certain process. In my youth an education was my obsession, and gradually I recognized the learning process. Finally, people supported, believed me, they trusted me. I became a priest. Many people have prepared me for this role. For my part, I was growing in the belief that I was being reciprocated enough. Though, I put in the bags the crumbs of those days of my youth now; and the colors leaves, the hectic days, the variability of events with, I change my time. There is no democracy plan in Poland, I think. The privileged position of Adolf Hitler ended on April 30, 1945. When the world is sick, the world is threatened by a chemical attack like the one in Syria. Nothing of the United Nations resolutions from Washington. Besides, modern countries are guided more by the rules of law, than the rules of deals. As left without memory and daily gainful work, I am taking my vote, I am sorry to say honestly, I want to work in Timothy, a villa whose walls are in my homeland, and which has spread out over the Vistula with a sunny shadow. Dear Timothy, one day I finally stood on the side of the unity of the world. However much I do little to the common good or very little, I think so. For that I finally understood that the world is a stage: that a mentally ill patient does not even have a telephone; and I do not recognize only the European attitude towards Refugees, and not, for example, one’s Argentinian. I understood that artists need to cooperate, research on the truth, tireless energy in building a better tomorrow of our civilization. I did not write it while being in the cocoon of alternative reality. They were not haedis rallies. I was not based here on the logic of history and nations. Though, I didn’t even intend to make one mistake. Because finally I understood that ‘our’ is power and glory now. And the team of co-workers, I will tell you; it was terrifying. Is there anybody now? Oh, Timothy, here you are! You are young, like your peers from this generation. Though, you still spend most time in family homes; although you are already finishing university. However, if you are even already married or separated, do everything to live well; say: I want to thank you for this and for that …; I want your good (young woman to her husband) As young people in your feelings, talk to yourself constantly, because it is a sin for everyone (since you are separated). Even reading or painting, let alone praying with Christ. However, learn to think constantly. And now, Timothy, sit down calmly, because I want to tell you about the creator of Nazism who wanted to be a priest … Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) – German politician and dictator of Austrian origin, paranoia with complexes, incapable man of any normal interpersonal relationships, in love with his mother. What was it really like? Adolf Hitler loved his mother, but was afraid of his father. In sexual relations he was a masochist. What was it really like? Adolf Hitler loved his mother, he hated him and he was afraid of his father. In sexual relations he took on a masochistic attitude. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in a poor Austrian family. He was the son of Klara nee Pölzl and 52-year-old customs officer Alois. The place of his birth was the town of Braunau on the Inn river, near the border with Germany. Although his father had dreamed of a male descendant for a lifetime, he did not consider the child his own for some time, probably suspecting a much younger wife of treason. His son remembered him coldly. He even once called him a sadist. The reason for mutual reluctance were his father’s plans regarding Adolf’s future, namely, raising him as his successor, customs officer. Young Hitler, however, had other plans. He did not belong to submissive and humble children, which led to frequent brawls and fights. In 1895, at the age of six, two important events took place in the life of young Adolf Hitler. First, the unrestrained, carefree days he had enjoyed up to now came to an end as he entered primary school. Second, his father retired from the Austrian civil service. This meant a double dose of supervision, discipline and regimentation under the watchful eye of teachers at school and his stern father at home. His father, now 58, he spent most of his life breaking through the ranks of the civil service. He was used to giving orders and obeying them, and he was waiting for it from his children. The Hitler family lived on a small farm outside of Linz in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The children had work on the farm to perform together with work at school. Hitler’s mother was now absorbed in the care of her son, Edmund. In 1896, she also gave birth to a girl, Paula. The Nazi household now consisted of Adolf, younger brother Edmund, little sister Paula, older half-brother Alois Junior, older half-sister Angela and two parents who were at home all the time. It was a crowded, noisy little farmhouse, which apparently made a sensation on Hitler’s father, who after 40 years of work was retired. The oldest boy, Alois Junior, age 13, was burdened with his father’s dissatisfaction, including sharp words and occasional beatings. A year later, at the age of 14, young Alois had enough of this treatment and ran away from home to never see his father again. This put young Adolf, at the age of 7, in the queue for the same treatment. Also at that time, the family moved from the farm to Lambach in Austria, halfway between Linz and Salzburg. It was the first of many moves the family made during Hitler’s father’s restless retirement. For young Adolf, moving to Lambach meant the end of duties on the farm and more time to play. In the city was an old Catholic Benedictine monastery. The ancient monastery was decorated with carved stones and woodwork, which contained several swastikas. Adolf attended school there and saw them every day. They were placed there in the nineteenth century by the ruling abbot as a word game or play. His name was essentially like the German word for swastika, Hakenkreuz.
Young Hitler did well at the monastery school and also took part in the boys’ choir. It was said that he had a great voice. A few years later, Hitler said that the solemn ceremony of the great masses and other Catholic ceremonies had dazzled and left a very deep impression. As a young boy, he adored priests and for two years seriously considered the possibility of becoming a priest. He particularly admired the abbot, who ruled his monks in black robes with the highest authority. At home, Hitler sometimes played the role of a priest, and even gave long sermons. But still in his village Hitler was humbled by a local priest as a four year old boy when the cleric saved him from a freezing lake. As an adult, being a priest wasn’t enough for Hitler. He wanted to play god. At the age of nine he ‘fell’; in school bully was caught smoking a cigarette by one of the priests, but this offense was forgiven him, he was not punished. Though, his favorite game ‘house outside’ was the cowboys and Indians. Books by James Fenimore Cooper, and especially by German writer Karol May, were readily read and reproduced in the Austro-Hungarian empire. The May, who was never in America, invented a hero named Old Shatterhand, a white man who always won his battles against Native Americans, defeating his enemies through pure willpower and courage. Young Hitler read many May’s books on Old Shatterhand, a total of over 70 novels. He continued to read them even as the Führer. During the German attack on Soviet Russia, he sometimes referred to the Russians as Redskinów and ordered his officers to wear Mayan books on the fight against the Indians. Describing his childhood, Hitler later said about himself that he was the argumentative leader of the ring, who liked to be outside and hang around with “skinny” boys. His half-brother, Alois, later described him as angry and spoiled by his indulgent mother. In 1898, the Hitler Family moved back to the village of Leonding, near Linz. They lived in a small house with a garden next to the cemetery. It meant another change of schools for Adolf. He obtained good grades with little effort. He also discovered that he has a great talent for drawing, especially for sketching buildings. He had the opportunity to look at the building, remember the architectural details and accurately reproduce it on paper, completely from memory. One day, young Hitler began to look through his father’s collection of books and encountered several military men, including a book about the war of 1870-71 between the Germans and the Frenchs. On Hitler’s own account, the book became an obsession. He read it over and over again, convinced it was a wonderful event. “It did not take long, very quickly, the great historic struggle became my greatest spiritual experience, and from then on I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was related to war or, for that matter, with soldiers,” Hitler said in Mein’s book Kampf. Cowboys and Indians gave way to the reconstruction of battles, especially after the outbreak of the Boer War in Africa. Hitler, now eleven years old, stood on the side of the Boers against the English and was never tired of war. Boys’ wars were continued in the yard. At that time a tragedy erupted in their house. Adolf’s younger brother Edmund, age 6, died of measles. Adolf, a boy who loved the war game and his “pretended” death, now had to face real death for the first time. It looks like it shook him very much. A small boy was buried in the cemetery next to the house. Adolf saw the cemetery from the bedroom window. Many years later, the neighbors remembered that young Adolf was sometimes seen at night on the wall of the cemetery staring at the stars. Now Adolf ‘has arrived’ problems. His school years were coming to an end and he had to choose what type of high school to attend, either classical or technical. Until now, young Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist one day. He wanted to go to the classic school. But his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant, and in September 1900 he sent him to the technical high school in Linz. Hitler, a country boy, was lost in the city and his big school. Urban children also looked differently at village kids who went to school with them. He was very lonely and very unhappy. He made poor progress in learning in the first year. He later claimed that he wanted to show his father that technical education with mathematics did not suit him; so he should be able to become an artist. “I thought that when my father saw what I was doing in technical school, he would let me dedicate myself to the happiness I had dreamed of,” explained Hitler at Mein Kampf. Between the home of the young Hitler and his father there were often quarrels about career choices. For a traditionally thinking, authoritarian father, the idea that his son would become an artist seemed completely ridiculous. In the grand scheme of things, as Adolf put it, the idea of ​​a career spent all day in the office, doing boring paperwork, was completely terrible. The dream of becoming an artist seemed to be the answer to all his current problems. But his stubborn father would not listen. And so began the bitter battle between father and son. Hitler began his second year in high school as the oldest boy in his class. It gave him an advantage over other boys. Once again he became a small leader of the ring, and even ‘dressed’ boys after school hours in cowboy and Indian, becoming Old Shatterhand. He managed to get better grades in the second year, but he still failed to get maths. At that time, there was one more interest in Adolf’s life, of great importance, it is German nationalism. The area of ​​Austria, in which Hitler grew up, is located near the German border. Many Austrians along the border considered themselves Germans-Austrians. Although they were subjects of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and its multicultural empire, they expressed their loyalty to the German imperial house of the Hohenzollerns and the German emperor. Contrary to the Austrian monarchy, Adolf Hitler and his young friends liked to use the German greeting “Heil” and sing the German hymn “Deutschland Über Alles” instead of the Austrian imperial anthem. Hitler’s father worked as an Austrian imperial customs agent and constantly expressed loyalty to the Habsburg monarchy, perhaps unwittingly encouraging his rebellious young son to give his loyalty now to the German emperor. In the school was also a history teacher, Dr. Leopold Pötsch, who ‘touched’ Hitler’s imagination with exciting stories of the glory of German figures such as Bismarck and Frederick the Great… (first part end)

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