Book on hitlers childhood friend
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The Young Dictator I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend
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The Young Hitler I Knew
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August Kubizek
Childhood friend of Adolf Hitler
August "Gustl" Friedrich Kubizek (3 August 1888 – 23 October 1956) was an Austrian musical conductor and writer of Czech origin best known for being a close friend of Adolf Hitler, when both were in their late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in his book The Young Hitler I Knew (1955).
Early life
[edit]August was born in Linz, Austria, the only surviving child to parents of Czech and Sudeten-German origin.[1] He was baptized Catholic at the St. Matthias Church where his parents had married the previous year.[2][3] His father Michael Kubíček (also born in Linz) was an upholsterer while his mother Maria Panholzer-Bláhová, who was born illegitimate in Rosee, was 14.[4][5] His sisters Maria, Therese and Karoline died in early childhood. Kubizek later wrote that this was a striking parallel between his own life and that of Adolf Hitler, whose mother had lost four children prematurely. As the surviving sons of grief-stricken mothers, Kubizek and Hitler felt they had been spared or "chosen" by fate.[6]
Kubizek and Hitler first met while competing for standing room in the Landestheater in Linz. Because of their shared passion for the operas of Richard W