Do you know Arnold Schwarzenegger's backstory?

 Arnold has frequently discussed his tense connection with his parents in speeches and writing.

Arnold said in 2012 that his father used to hit him with a belt and chase him because he believed his son was gay:

"My father beat me because he believed I was gay...

He chased me down and thrashed me with a belt.

Arnold also claimed that his mother sought medical advice because:

She was concerned that Arnold was acting strangely.

I'm not sure if my mother assumed I was gay or if she simply believed something was strange. Let's catch it early, then. Can you help me? she enquired to the doctor. My son's wall is covered in pictures of naked males, so I'm not sure if there's a problem there. Every one of Arnold's friends has images of women hanging over their beds. Arnold doesn't have any girls.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's admission from his childhood: "My dad beat me because he thought I was gay."

Celebrity author Kira Martin described Arnold's early years as follows:

The Schwarzenegger household was rigid and depressing. Gustav's father was a devout Catholic police chief who put his family under his severe control. Gustav was abusive in addition to being demanding. He was violent and cruel in addition to being an alcoholic. He chased Schwarzenegger with a belt and thrashed him because he thought Schwarzenegger was gay.

Arnold also had a senior brother by the name of Reinhard. According to Arnold, Gustav felt that Reinhard was the more physically fit and manly of the two.

But Arnold learned a horrible secret about his father.

Rumors that Arnold's father had been a Nazi started to spread as Arnold rose to fame. Arnold contacted Rabbi Marvin Hier at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 1990 because he was eager to learn the truth.

The former governor requested that the Rabbi look into his father's suspected connections to the Nazis both before and during World War II. The Wiesenthal Center later learned that his father had submitted an application to join the Nazi Party in 1938. In 1941, he was admitted.

According to Holocaust expert Michael Berenbaum, Arnold's father was:

In areas where some of the "most horrible military and nonmilitary fatalities" had occurred, amid the "heaviest fighting,"

Arnold chose not to attend the funerals of his father and brother because their relationship was so terrible.

Schwarzenegger's bad relationship with his father prevented him from returning home after his brother passed away, therefore he was forced to miss the funeral.

There are contradictory accounts as to why Arnold did not go to his father's burial.