FATHER A CUSTOMS OFFICIAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 April 1937, Page 5

FATHER A CUSTOMS OFFICIAL.

Herr Hitler’s father was a customs' official at the Austrian frontier town of Braunau, chick lies about SO miles north-east of Munich. There the present ruler of Germany was born in 1889. It is a small town of about 3000 inhabitant and a rather unimportant railway station. Later, they went to live near Lintz. The father was said to have been a 'great talker, and to have had am bitions of his son' becoming a high State official. Young Adolf, at that time, did not agree with the latter idea- He had an artistic turn of mind and wanted to be an architect. Hfc, mother was a native of Bo which is now part of Czecho Slovakia. When Adolf was not yet 15 years of age his father died, and little more than a year afterward his mother was terid at rest beside her husband in the* same grave. From the wreck of the family belongings, young Adolf was able to rescue only a few pounds for himself. With 'these, and nothing else between him and he arrived in Vienna, the Austrian capital. and- ob tained employment in. the building trade. He worked at this until the outbreak of war in 1914, when he joined up with Bavarian troops, thus enlisting with the Gennan Army, not the Austrian,