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6bellion led by a Stephan Fadinger centuries before. Fadinger‟sidea was that peasants should work less and eat more, sothat they should not die so young. The landowners thoughtFadinger was heartless to prevent peasants from dying young,since this earth is a vale of sorrows, and so they roasted him onhot grills, that he should not suffer for other people‟s griefs.Young Hitler had no sympathy for Fadinger and he thoughtthe landowners were not wrong.In school Adolf was not the teacher‟s pet. He had a wayof thinking “no” even when he had to say “yes.” He revoltedinstinctively against the teachers‟ absolute authority.They called him an agitator and treated him with distrust.One of the things he did not see was why he should sing theAustrian national anthem at school celebrations. He preferredto hum “Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Alles,”which was the hymn of the Reich.Adolf Hitler began to take a youthful pride in his dislikeof the Austrian ruling house. This was the result of aprecocious bravado and of a desire to be different. His upbringingin a frontier town helped to make him a rebel. Inthe low-ceilinged house at Braunau, on the Austro-Bavarianfront, where he was bom in 1889, he had seen in his earliestchildhood as much of Germany as of Austria. It was greatfun to see the soldiers on the other side of the boundarymarch under a different flag to the tune of other songs; to hearthem obey commands that were different from those of theAustrians. The sky-blue uniform of the Bavarian infantrywith the red cuff was more attractive than the dark blueuniform of the Austrians. The blue and white flag of the