Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals his Nazi father’s ‘strange violence’

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Netflix docuseries “Arnold,” which will premiere Wednesday.Schwarzenegger, who grew up in Austria, will talk candidly about his upbringing in the limited series, which details his personal life and career as an actor, politician and body builder.The A-lister admitted that his father, a Nazi party official he described as a “tyrant,” might have suffered from a myriad of mental health struggles.“He was buried underneath buildings, rubble, for three days, and on top of that, they lost the war,” he reportedly recalled of his father. “They went home so depressed.

Austria was a country of broken men. I think there were times where my father really struggled.”He accused Gustav of having “schizophrenic behavior,” leaving the actor and his late brother never knowing if they would get their “kind father” or the “drunk” alter ego.

The siblings were forced to “earn breakfast” and even “compete against each other,” he said.“He would scream at three in the morning and we would wake up and our hearts were pounding because we knew that meant,” Schwarzenegger said. “He could, at any given time, strike my mother or go crazy.

So there was this strange violence.”The “True Lies” actor, who lost his brother, Meinhard, in a drunk driving accident, believes his sibling’s drinking problem stemmed from their “tough” upbringing. “The brutality that was at home, the beatings that we got from our parents sometimes — all of this I think he could not sustain,” Schwarzenegger said of his brother.