While we can never be certain of all the facts that surround Hitler's five years in Vienna, there are a few key things to note. Hitler came to Vienna a young man, impressionable, idealistic, with dreams of grandeur. He possessed a youthful nationalism and pride in his ethnic heritage. He left Vienna with scorned dreams, a man with hardened, extremist intellectual views, formed not of his own innate malice but of the circumstances into which he was placed, a lower class which was ignored by the intellectual bourgeoisie and exploited by Lueger and other anti-Semites. Hitler?s struggle for genius, for authenticity and truth is not unlike that of Robert Musil?s Ulrich or Karl Kraus. It is only as a result of the peculiar combination of these factors, events, and ideologies that Hitler emerged from his time in Vienna as he did.