Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 1947, a Thal, Styria, zuwa Aurelia (née Jadrny; 1922<unk>1998) da kuma Gustav Schwarzenegger (1907<unk>1972). Mahaifinsa shi ne shugaban 'yan sanda na gida kuma ya yi aiki a yakin duniya na biyu a matsayin Hauptfeldwebel bayan da ya shiga jam'iyyar Nazi da son rai a 1938, ya ji rauni a lokacin yakin Stalingrad, amma an sallame shi a 1943 bayan da ya kamu da zazzabin cizon sauro. Ya auri mahaifiyar Schwarzenegger a ranar 20 ga Oktoba, 1945; yana da shekaru 38 kuma tana da shekaru 23. A cewar Arnold Schwarzenegger, iyayensa sun kasance masu tsauraran ra'ayi: "A baya can a Ostiryia ya kasance duniya ce ta daban... idan muka yi wani abu mara kyau ko kuma muka yi wa iyayenmu rashin biyayya, ba a bar sandar ba". Ya girma a cikin dangin Katolika wanda ke halartar Mass kowace Lahadi.Gustav ya fi son babban ɗansa, Meinhard, akan Arnold. Son zuciyarsa ta kasance "mai ƙarfi da bayyane", wanda ya samo asali ne daga tuhumar da ba ta da tushe cewa Arnold ba ɗansa ba ne. Schwarzenegger ya ce mahaifinsa ba shi da "haƙuri don sauraron ko fahimtar matsalolinka". Yana da dangantaka mai kyau da mahaifiyarsa kuma ya ci gaba da tuntuɓar ta har sai ta mutu. Daga baya a rayuwa, ya ba da izinin Cibiyar Simon Wiesenthal don bincika rikodin mahaifinsa na lokacin yaƙi, wanda bai zo da wata hujja ta Gustav da ke da hannu a cikin munanan ayyuka ba, duk da kasancewarsa memba a Jam'iyyar Nazi da Sturmabteilung (SA). Bayanin Gustav ya sami kulawa mai yawa a lokacin yakin neman zaben California na 2003. A makaranta, Schwarzenegger ya kasance matsakaici ne a ilimi, amma ya yi fice saboda "farin ciki, mai farin ciki, da kuma farin ciki". Kudi ya kasance matsala a cikin gidansu; Schwarzenegger ya tuna cewa daya daga cikin abubuwan da ya fi so a lokacin ƙuruciyarsa shi ne lokacin da iyalin suka sayi firiji. Yayinda yake yaro, ya buga wasanni da yawa, mahaifinsa ya rinjayi shi sosai. Ya ɗauki barbell na farko a shekara ta 1960, lokacin da mai horar da ƙwallon ƙafa ya ɗauki tawagarsa zuwa gidan motsa jiki na gida. A lokacin da yake da shekaru 14, ya zabi gina jiki a kan kwallon kafa a matsayin aiki. Daga baya ya ce, "Na fara motsa jiki lokacin da nake da shekara 15, amma na kasance...  Tambaya: Yaushe ya fara motsa jiki?
Shekarar 1960