The year is 1907. A chill wind howls outside the Hitler family home, mimicking the icy dread that has settled over 18-year-old Adolf. Inside, the air hangs heavy with the stench of iodine and the approaching shadow of death. Klara, his beloved mother, is fading fast, ravaged by the cancer that gnaws at her breast.
But there's another absence in that room, one less spoken of but no less palpable: the absence of a father. Alois Hitler, a man known for his harsh discipline and volatile temper, had died years earlier, leaving a void in young Adolf's life that no amount of maternal love could fill.
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