At 9/7/09 12:15 AM, Grubby wrote:
I heard he aspired to become and artist or architect,
He tried to get into the main art school of Vienna, but he was better at drawing buildings then people. He was enthusiastic at the idea of architecture, until he was told he had flunked the necessary qualifications in high school despite his schools consistent objection.
though his exemplary military actions displays his bravery.
And survival skill! Not many 40 somethings can take a job with an average lifespan of 15 seconds (army messenger) and survive for the inevitable promotion and iron cross. Or survive a DIRECT HIT ON THEIR TRENCH. I think he would be an angry version of Houdini! Or....
...The jerk high school dropout ex jock? It seems laughable, but take away the uniform and that's exactly what he was. Goebells would be marketing DeutschFlakes or whatever, Himmler would just be a little weedy racist. And Einstein and Freud would have led comfortable existences. And we may have never known the atom bomb.
And all the time Hitler's scraping a living in his military police job writing air headed schemes making scorned advances at his half nephew, whilst Neville Chamberlain get's a second term as prime minister.
Oh, and no NHS.
