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after the slaters hsd l e f t . The bottom hfld obviously fallen out of his world. Tears c&me into Or* Blocks eyes as be described the tragic flcenfl* "His Bother would turn over in her grave if ahe knew what he turned out to b#*" (El) This wes the end of Hitler'a family Ufa. LATER a ' Shortly after hi3 mother's frnth the family broke up and Adolph went to Vienna to moke hi a way 3ji the world &e hla father had done before him* This was aarlj in 19CM3* How much aOdey Iw took with hill, if any( Is n*t know* The records here are very particularly sine* all biographers hevg gone on the nuppofli- • hatJ'hift Mother died a year later th«i ahe actually did* Thi& an entire /ear unaccounted for sines'the next thing we benr of Adolpb^ he ha a again sppliad for sdaii salon to the exaci nations for the j^cadeiny o£ ftrt- • One of the conditions for Tfr-expimlnatiun was that ha submit to t4ia Board SODS of the ^lnting^ he bad done pr«Tiouely* Thifl he did but the Board fcfls not impressed f.ith them and refused to allow hin to eater the examination. This, i t seems, WAE flT«n a gre^tqr shoctc than his failure to paflfl tha eramlnations . r a year earlier* f After he h«d received notification to the effect thnt hie work irafi of such a nature that i t did not narrent his admission to ' i * the second exABlnAtion, be int^rrlewad the Director. Ue claine V * that the Director told him that hie drawings showed clearly that • hifl talents lay in the direction of architecture rather than pur* • art and advised hi a to 3«ek admieaion to the ftrchitsgtural School, REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES