Posted on 03/23/2015 9:51:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The still-life watercolour was painted when Adolf Hitler was in his mid-twenties, and sold by his Jewish art dealer Samuel Morgenstern, who was later sent to the Lodz Ghetto...
...The Telegraph's art critic Alastair Smart says of the piece, "The work is of no intrinsic, artistic worth whatsoever. The only vague point of interest might be that, unlike the iffy watercolours of Vienna city we associate with Hitler the painter, this rarity is an iffy watercolour of a pitcher of azalias."...
...Hitler moved to Munich in 1913, having been unable to make a living as a painter.
The Nazis later seized Morgenstern's gallery, and he was deported to the Lodz Ghetto, where he died in 1943. This flower painting has Morgenstern's stamp on the back.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“...Nikolai Yezhov, Head of the NKVD...”
Yes. The Disappearing Commissar, or something like that, they called him...
And Molotov lived a long time. Outlived almost all of his fellow Bolsheviks...
Somebody should buy it then publically burn it, without any damn video and
finally put an end to it.
...
I disagree. There is a lot to be learned from Hitler’s life. Before WWI he was a struggling artist living in a park showing no signs of antisemitism.
Word is that Beria poisoned Stalin to save his own skin, and the rest of the Politburo, but in the end it didn’t save him.
Nikcolai Ceacescu is another.
Great moment in history.
Hmmm...
Maybe it was MOLOTOV who ASKED Stalin to do it...
Not every marriage is a happy one.
Just sayin’...
No, they actually reconciled and lived together after her release, until she died.
Well, that’s good to hear.
Usually, they just worked you to death in the gulags, on stavation rations, until you wore out and died.
Hitler was pretty careful, especially after that assassination attempt.
Didn't he have them hung by piano wire?
Similarly some have asked why the Jews in Europe didnt fight back much more than they did.
The answer is that being THERE is much different than being HERE.
For the first few years in Israel, Holocaust survivors in Israel were treated with disdain by other Jews, because they felt they didn't fight back.
Then the Eichmann Trial, and they learned just how bad the Holocaust really was, and they understood.
“..some have asked why the Jews in Europe didnt fight back much more than they did....”
The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto did. They knew they were going to die anyway, but they went down fighting. Brave folks.
“...being THERE is much different than being HERE...”
True enough.
But one still has to wonder if, at some time or another, it went through SOMEONE’S mind that “Hey... maybe murdering thousands of human beings is, well, a TEENSY bit wrong...and I should maybe try and DO something...”
There was more than one assassination attempt, too. There actually WAS an organized German Underground movement.
The Staufenberg plot (July 20th bomb attempt) was just the one that came closest to succeeding.
A lot of Mein Kampf (early parts) read something like the similar bits of Orwell’s “Wigan Pier”, in the explanation of his class anxieties and the nature and problems of the lower classes in those times.
Unsettled times are an opportunity for new leaders. The French certainly went through a lot of them pre-Napoleon.
It was either going to be Hitler or Thaelmann taking over as dictator in Germany, either way it was going to be ugly.
Always.
:)
“Justified” had a terrific episode in season one: “The Collection”. The sub-plot was a guy collected Hitler paintings. Robert Picardo played an art expert who had a nice little twist in the end.
But in the movies it looks sooo easy.
I couldn’t imagine living in post-WWI Germany; those fortunate enough to work were paid twice per day (so they could buy things at lunch before prices went up), and restaurant prices would change while you were eating. Incredible...
If only he had been accepted into art school ... perhaps WWII could have been avoided. /s
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