Arnold Schwarzenegger says Nazi father’s abuse caused brother’s death
nme.comArnold Schwarzenegger has opened about his “tough” childhood in a new Netflix docu-series about his life.Arnold covers Schwarzenegger’s acting and political career, featuring interviews with friends and co-stars.
In the series, which premiered yesterday (June 7), he calls his father, who was a Nazi party official, a “tyrant”.Speaking about his father, he says he suspected he had many mental health issues. “He was buried underneath buildings, rubble, for three days, and on top of that, they lost the war.
They went home so depressed,” he explained. “Austria was a country of broken men. I think there were times where my father really struggled.”He accused his father, Gustav, of having “schizophrenic behaviour,” leaving the actor and his late brother nervous as to whether they would get their “kind father” or his “drunk” alter ego.
Schwarzenegger said the siblings were forced to “earn breakfast” and even “compete against each other.”He continued: “He would scream at three in the morning and we would wake up and our hearts were pounding because we knew what that meant,” Schwarzenegger said. “He could, at any given time, strike my mother or go crazy.
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