![]() ![]() "All he wanted from me, was one thing – agreement", writes Kubizek describing his friend's "gusts of unbroken verbiage" about art, the city's design, the bridge over the Danube, the underground railway system and any performance of a Wagner opera. "Harmless things, like a couple of hasty words, could make him explode with anger". When he lost the lottery, he attributed that loss to those mysterious dark forces as well as the lottery organisers and government who clearly had rigged the outcome against him, Kubizek wrote in his book, The Young Hitler I Knew. It was an audience of one for the bossy, self-important and aggressive Hitler who twirled a small black cane.Īdolf was obsessed with "dark forces" he believed intervened in his life. August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they competed for standing room at the opera. "Hitler was the braggart and poser, Kubizek, the self-effacing acolyte and patient listener", writes Ham. ![]() Hitler had one childhood friend, August "Gustl" Kubizek, who later wrote a memoir detailing their very "lopsided relationship", dominated by Hitler who continually berated his one and only friend, a shy and talented musician, for his conventional ideas. ![]()
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