Posted on 01/23/2019 6:39:51 AM PST by C19fan
As long as there are no Nazi symbols his artwork can be sold.
He really did have a problem with drawing/painting people.
That was the reason the art institute/school he applied to rejected him. He was advised to concentrate on buildings; he could have been a very good architect.
Because he was a narcissist he couldn’t bring himself to attend to a lower art institute/school.
You are not mistaken. The US government did not want admirers of Hitler to have any way of focusing their love of Hitler on anything, and I do mean ANYTHING relating to Hitler.
Hope that sentence made sense.
Our shrinks did a good job, actually, of profiling him.
While I don’t know about the dancing, having seen pictures of them both it would appear young Churchill was quite dashing.
LOL
Someone who’s studied German history especially relating to WWII mentioned that Hitler actually decided to use that particular style of mustache to set him apart from the other politicians. He wanted to stand out and as he wasn’t an impressively sized man he needed to look different using another tact.
LOL
I should have read your post before I added my own.
Yes, he wanted to stand out from the other politicians and as he was not an impressive build, used the mustache.
Legend has it, that during WWI, Hitler walked in front of British soldier, who refused to fire on Hitler.
Samuel Morgenstern, who said they met in 1911 or 1912... imprisoned in the Łódź Ghetto, where he died of wasting in August 1943. Hitler gave an appreciative statement in the 1930s that Morgenstern had been his "savior" during the Vienna period and had given him many important commissions.
Ah, yes, Churchill’s seminal breakout painting, “Green Paint Was on Sale No.1.”
they shoulda let him into the art school and saved us all the trouble
I believe in inevitability to a large extent. The tide of history is not easily rolled back or diverted; the lemming herd will always be drawn to and off the cliff.
There is a sense of that in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s expression, “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”
A book was written in Germany in the 1990s that was a psychological profile of Hitler. Although it was eventually allowed to be published, the German government initially forbade its being printed. The fear was that to understand all was to forgive all. They still smart from Nazism.
100%
To understand all is to forgive all?
Well, in the Liberal/Progressive world anything evil would fall under that guideline. Of course, they wouldn’t even begin to understand/forgive Conservatives.
Keeping people ignorant is one of the cardinal rules of the elitists. Ignorant folks can be manipulated so much more easily.
Sigh.
I guess the thinking goes that if you understand the psychological underpinnings or reasons of why someone does what they do, you’re likely to become less judgemental.
At any rate, that was the government’s rationale for suppressing a psycho-history of Hitler.
While I can understand and empathize with their viewpoint, I tend to think it was counterintuitive. Is that the correct word?
Why is that?
I think over time it caused an absence of knowledge about a leader that played a significant part of a country’s history. That often causes young people to want to look into that person and maybe even up to that person. Simply because of the human condition that causes the young adult to be in rebellion towards the governing powers.
I recall in high school, my sophomore year I believe, knowing a wonderful German girl. This was in New York. Her father was an officer in the US Army. I didn’t even think about it back then, and I’m not sure how he could have been in the US Army as a German citizen. This would have been 1972-1973, I guess. Don’t know her father’s age or her mother’s. She had an older brother, as well.
She thought Hitler was the greatest thing since sliced bread for Germany. I was already into reading history and not taking just the U.S./Allied version, either, mind you. I was still stunned. She felt he was the best thing because he united Germany and brought them out from under the yoke of the Treaty from WWI.
Now, as even a kid, I knew the Treaty of WWI was designed not to just have Germany repay the cost of WWI; it was to destroy Germany.
That said, I was still stunned. I told her I couldn’t understand how she could feel that way. She simply looked at me and said that I couldn’t understand what the German peoples had to endure after WWI as punishment and he was going to lift them from under that punishment. She believed the loss of life of both Jew and Gentile was part of the price to bring Germany back from the brink of destruction.
I think without having the full story on the ‘why’ Hitler was the way he was, prevented Germans like her from seeing that even if Germany was doing just fine he would have still done what he did. He just would have attempted to get to power doing it another way.
That’s what I mean by being counterintuitive.
It’s like England getting China’s people addicted to Opium so England could get back it’s gold when China was insisting on being paid in gold for tea leaves.
It’s like the American citizens not knowing the Administration at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor knew about it but couldn’t admit it because we were spying on the Japanese.
Things like that do need to be known in order for it all to be viewed correctly. Maybe not agreed upon, just viewed correctly.
I hope I’m explaining my view correctly.
Thank you, so much, sparklite2, for your patience.
That’s what I mean by being counterintuitive.
Had I met your friend and she told me she was a fan of Hitler, I would have thought she was a loon and a murderer at heart. But once I got to understand her and the reason, albeit narrow, for her feelings, I could forgive her for them.
And that’s an example of “to understand all is to forgive all.” I’m not saying I necessarily agree with that, but the German government believed it long enough to suppress a book’s publishing.
I can understand their reasoning at the time.
Thank you, for the discussion, sparklite2!
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