Hitler the painter or architect?

• fudgester

  4 Feb 07, 12:08

  I've been reading a Wikipedia entry on Adolf Hitler.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
  
  According to a Hitler's biography, he aspired to be an artist when he was young. He twice applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, only to be rejected both times. Apparently he preferred painting buildings to life art, and was in fact recommended to be an architect instead.
  
  However, he found that he was lacking the basic qualifications for entry to architecture school.
  
  I can't help but wonder... what would things have been like if Hitler had been a painter or an architect?
  
• Agenda

  4 Feb 07, 12:11

  It was because he got rejected, He got angry with the Jews because they were accepted..
  
  So this was one of the prelude to the holocaust
• maggot

  4 Feb 07, 12:39

  Originally posted by Agenda:
  It was because he got rejected, He got angry with the Jews because they were accepted..
  
  So this was one of the prelude to the holocaust
  

  Not his Jewish girlfriend that give him sexual disease that lead to the holocaust?
• monoslayer

  4 Feb 07, 12:48

  Originally posted by maggot:

  Not his Jewish girlfriend that give him sexual disease that lead to the holocaust?

  no lah. the jewish uncle put 'ter gua' in his bak chor mee even though he specifically told him he dun wan.
• Darkness_hacker99

  4 Feb 07, 12:54

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  I've been reading a Wikipedia entry on Adolf Hitler.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
  
  According to a Hitler's biography, he aspired to be an artist when he was young. He twice applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, only to be rejected both times. Apparently he preferred painting buildings to life art, and was in fact recommended to be an architect instead.
  
  However, he found that he was lacking the basic qualifications for entry to architecture school.
  
  I can't help but wonder... what would things have been like if Hitler had been a painter or an architect?
  

  maybe he will build the world tallest structure at the time given by his strong character.
• Xtrider

  4 Feb 07, 12:55

  what would have happened if his mum aborted him? I read it somewhere..hee..
• fudgester

  4 Feb 07, 12:57

  Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:

  maybe he will build the world tallest structure at the time given by his strong character.

  Apparently he did consider architecture school, but he did not have the qualifications for it. To quote from Mein Kampf:
  
  In a few days I myself knew that I should some day become an architect. To be sure, it was an incredibly hard road; for the studies I had neglected out of spite at the Realschule were sorely needed.
  
  One could not attend the Academy's architectural school without having attended the building school at the Technic, and the latter required a high-school degree. I had none of all this. The fulfillment of my artistic dream seemed physically impossible.
  
  
• GHoST_18

  4 Feb 07, 12:58

  hilter had a close aide called albert speers who was his chief architect...
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer
• fudgester

  4 Feb 07, 13:04

  Hmm... yeah... Albert Speer...
  
  He was originally his chief architect, but was eventually transferred to the armaments ministry, if I remember correctly.
• missqi

  4 Feb 07, 13:08

  I think he was both; in a way.
  But he was a great leader.
• wonderamazement

  4 Feb 07, 13:51

  Originally posted by missqi:

  I think he was both; in a way.
  But he was a great leader.

  My sentiments too... A great leader.