Arnold's birth

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Austria. His father Gustav was an alcoholic police chief and member of the Nazi Party, who favored Arnold's brother over his less athletic younger son. Gustav is reported to have beaten and intimidated Arnold and, when he could, pitted his two boys against one another. He also ridiculed Schwarzenegger's early dreams of becoming a bodybuilder.