A path leads into Leonding, Austria, where Adolf HItler grew up from 1898 to 1905. His parents and brother are buried there. His parents scraped together enough money to send Hitler to high school, expecting him to become a civil servant. Hitler, however, wanted to be an artist, and vowed to fail at his academic studies until his father relented. This conflict with his father seemed to ignite an unforgiving fire in Hitler that would prove to be a fundamental aspect of his personality.