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Gustav served as a member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary unit, the Sturmabteilung.
The overwhelming father would make the boys earn breakfast by making them compete with one another.
Aurelia alerted doctors about something possibly being wrong with her son.
By age 21, Schwarzenegger had endured enough and left Austria to live in America.
It was there he could focus more on his bodybuilding career without the strict gaze of his father.
Both Schwarzenegger and his older brother Meinhard were hit frequently.
However, for his brother, their upbringing only weakened him more.
Schwarzenegger is convinced that the violence within their family drove his brother to start drinking heavily.
A year after the tragic accident, Gustav succumbed to a stroke.
Aurelia lived until 1998.
He clearly loves his kids, who, thankfully, had a much better childhood than their father.
