Mr. A was right, but there's an old saying, "No man is a hero to his valet," and I saw the rejoinder, "And no man remains a hero to the historian for very long." Hitler was a multidimensional character. One of his teachers wrote, "Hitler was gifted...autocratic and bad-tempered and unable to submit to school discipline." (Alan Bullock, A Study In Tyranny), and that's true. Even in primary school, while his fellow students studied, Hitler spent his time drawing castles and aspired to be an artist and architect, and tried twice to enter the Vienna School of Fine Arts but his work was considered not to be of good quality.

Alois Schicklgruber (later Hitler), was a short-tempered customs official and hobby apiarist who beat his sons Alois the Second and Adolf, with a small whip that he owned. Hitler's mother, however, was kind and gentle.