Posted on 11/23/2014 5:02:56 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
Hitler as a Youth
"The other side of Adolf Hitler has been suddenly exposed by a letter the post office had lost all these years and suddenly delivered it to the address where he lived as a boy. The problem, they were decades too late.
"Hitler wanted to be an artist. He was a painter. He applied to attend art school and waited patiently for a letter of acceptance. That letter never came and Hitler’s dream career was never to be. Was this simply fate?
K.u.K. = kaiserlich und königlich = “Imperial and Royal”
(An improving translation.)
Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Rector’s Office
Mr. Siegman L’Allemand
3 Shiller Place
Vienna, Austria
Mr.
Adolf Hitler
31 Humbold Street
Linz, Austria
Vienna, the 2nd of October 1907
In regards to: Your application, Number 54/1907
Dear Mr. Adolf Hitler,
We hereby inform you, that our decision to your inclusion in to the K.U.K. Academy of Fine Arts field painting has been given.
The Justification Commission: The sample painting presented by you (artwork title: Landscape With No Heads) impressed us by your unconventional style, but in your art you put contours where they are not necessary and select colors that are not appropriate. The utter randomness that your work expresses gives us cause to doubt that you are the right person to expand your horizons at our academy.
Signed:
The Chairman of the Committee
Professor Christian Griepenkerl
Wotanism? Sort of like the "Ring of Nibelung"?
If Castro had been signed up by a major baseball team here would he have gone back to Cuba and turned into a communist country?
If he'd only had a 90 mph fastball... (he was actually inn the low eighties).
Did they also suggest he get his bad Emo haircut?
That link is a satirical page. I’ve never heard anyone use “mit ohne”; it certainly is *not* a common or proper expression.
The whole letter reads like satire, so it’s probably a hoax.
Of course. The idea was to replace Christianity with ita Jewish roots. The nutzis wanted to replace it with Aryan Christianity
Read “The Red Tsar” about Stalin. That guy was worse than Hitler and he des peacefully on his death bed despite slaughtering millions more than Hitler did
Yes. Stalin was a sociopath *before* he gained power.
Not unlike some faux Greek columns at the 2008 DNC Convention.
Many people are not aware that Germany placed huge reparation demands upon France at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, so I can understand the French desire for "pay back" particularly after losing 1.4 million soldiers in WW I, but those demands obviously helped cause WWII.
" I learned the German population starved also and there was massive suffering."
I recently read that the German civilians were trying to survive on fewer than a 1,000 calories per day for a very long time in WW I.
Thanks for the hyperlink.
I was familiar with the expression, which I consider extremely slangy, North German, and modern - hardly something I'd expect to find in a letter of this provenance.
The letter is obviously a satire.
Regards,
Your point well taken by me and indeed I had not done my homework. I guess the epic musical drama Les Miserables, partly about the Communards and their insurgence in Paris, had me not thinking. The revolutionary forces had a free reign, since a hundred thousand French troops were prisoners of war at Sedan. The Germans hurriedly released them with their small arms. The Germans were wary of any worker uprising as preached by their own Karl Marx. This you will know.
I smile sadly at the ironies of history. Blucher and the Germans saving Wellington at Waterloo 1815. Later the British and French locked in a death struggle in France against Germany. 1914.
So what does ‘mit ohne’ mean?
It means "with without."
Like when ordering one wiener "with ketchup" and another one "with without ketchup" (i.e., "with no ketchup").
It is a low-class expression used by the Lumpenproletariat in post-WWII northern Germany and would never have found its way into a letter by an Austro-Hungarian official at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. It is as out-of-place as the use of "Valley Girl Talk" in a letter purported to have been written by Teddy Roosevelt.
This faux acceptance letter bears all the earmarks of a not-so-clever satire.
Regards,
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