15-06-2013, 01:10 AM
AHitler left Vienna for Munich Sunday, May 25[SUP]th[/SUP] 1913 by train. With his desire to be German not Austrian, it was inevitable that he liked what he found. Seeking lodging he found it at the Popp Tailor Shop advertised by a sign making known to passersby "Furnished rooms to let to respectable men". He got his room. When asked to provide registration card information by Frau Popp, he was "Adolf Hitler, Architectural painter from Vienna".
Respectable by appearance and demeanor maybe, but as noted the psychosis was already present and had been for a while. The hate and like things in the spirit of the man were already rotting the better angels of the man's nature. The man had already shed any semblance of an internal moral compass replacing it with one of hate and self-contempt. Already a fine fascist in training in 1913.
He seemingly had a little trouble supporting himself with his art, though it had been easier to peddle starving artist works in Vienna. In Munich, he had to peddle his wares door to door and in Beer halls.
From: Adolf Hitler, John Toland:
"Munich in 1913 with its 600,000 inhabitants was, after Paris, about the liveliest cultural center in Europe, and for some years had been attracting a breed of artists that Hitler himself found decadent: Paul Klee from Switzerland and refugees from the east like Kandinsky, Jawlensky and the Burlink brothers. … Despite his distaste for these Eastern refugees, Hitler himself was a bohemian and shared their need for freedom and tradition. …
The spirit of bohemianism, in which even the most outrageous and ridiculous theories of art and politics were welcome, had existed in Munich since before the turn of the century and had attracted unconventional souls from all over the world. Another political extremist had spent more than a year of his exile from Russia several blocks up Schleissheimerstrasse, at number 106, registered as Herr Meyer, his given name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and in the underground he was known as Lenin. Here a dozen years earlier he had been writing tracts based on the theories of Marx."
[End Quote from: Adolf Hitler, John Toland]
AHitler left Vienna for Munich Sunday, May 25[SUP]th[/SUP] 1913 by train. With his desire to be German not Austrian, it was inevitable that he liked what he found. Seeking lodging he found it at the Popp Tailor Shop advertised by a sign making known to passersby "Furnished rooms to let to respectable men". He got his room. When asked to provide registration card information by Frau Popp, he was "Adolf Hitler, Architectural painter from Vienna".
Respectable by appearance and demeanor maybe, but as noted the psychosis was already present and had been for a while. The hate and like things in the spirit of the man were already rotting the better angels of the man's nature. The man had already shed any semblance of an internal moral compass replacing it with one guided of hate and self-contempt. Already a fine fascist in training in 1913.
He seemingly had a little trouble supporting himself with his art, though it had been easier to peddle starving artist works in Vienna. In Munich, he had to peddle his wares door to door and in Beer halls.
From: Adolf Hitler, John Toland:
"Munich in 1913 with its 600,000 inhabitants was, after Paris, about the liveliest cultural center in Europe, and for some years had been attracting a breed of artists that Hitler himself found decadent: Paul Klee from Switzerland and refugees from the east like Kandinsky, Jawlensky and the Burlink brothers. … Despite his distaste for these Eastern refugees, Hitler himself was a bohemian and shared their need for freedom and tradition. …
The spirit of bohemianism, in which even the most outrageous and ridiculous theories of art and politics were welcome, had existed in Munich since before the turn of the century and had attracted unconventional souls from all over the world. Another political extremist had spent more than a year of his exile from Russia several blocks up Schleissheimerstrasse, at number 106, registered as Herr Meyer, his given name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and in the underground he was known as Lenin. Here a dozen years earlier he had been writing tracts based on the theories of Marx."
[End Quote from: Adolf Hitler, John Toland]
Sometimes much is made of AHitler's failure in Vienna as an artist. This failure has been presented as a turning point' in the descent into madness by the future master of western Europe. Excuses abound in his life if excuses are sought. I am not in the excuse business, though.
He adopted and adapted to the bohemian life style that provided the freedom of thought and allowed for eccentricities of personality.
There is a significant difference between the account of AHitler's alleged leaving Vienna for Munich in John Toland's biography and William Shirer's account of the same events.
Shirer posits AHitler as "probably" leaving Vienna to avoid conscription into the Austrian Army because of the racial mix of the Austrian empire.
Toland provides more details and his information doesn't support or deny the draft dodging issue.
On January 18[SUP]th[/SUP], 1914 at 3:30 pm the Munich police served notice to AHitler to report to Linz for induction into the Austrian Army on the 20[SUP]th[/SUP].
In 1910 while in Vienna he had requested permission to report for service and he had heard nothing in reply until this arrest and being taken under guard to the Austrian Consulate General's office the 19[SUP]th[/SUP]. Reportedly, the police officers were sympathetic. He was liable to prison and a fine if judged guilty of evasion of military service. The Consulate allowed AHitler to send a telegram to Linz to request an extension he did not secure.
He wrote a letter to Linz and the Consulate attached a note. He and the Munich police thought the young man was honest. The end result, was that AHitler reported to a closer location than Linz for examination. He traveled at the Consulate General's expense. On February 5[SUP]th[/SUP], he was found "unfit for combatant and auxiliary duty".
He was too weak.
Respectable by appearance and demeanor maybe, but as noted the psychosis was already present and had been for a while. The hate and like things in the spirit of the man were already rotting the better angels of the man's nature. The man had already shed any semblance of an internal moral compass replacing it with one of hate and self-contempt. Already a fine fascist in training in 1913.
He seemingly had a little trouble supporting himself with his art, though it had been easier to peddle starving artist works in Vienna. In Munich, he had to peddle his wares door to door and in Beer halls.
From: Adolf Hitler, John Toland:
"Munich in 1913 with its 600,000 inhabitants was, after Paris, about the liveliest cultural center in Europe, and for some years had been attracting a breed of artists that Hitler himself found decadent: Paul Klee from Switzerland and refugees from the east like Kandinsky, Jawlensky and the Burlink brothers. … Despite his distaste for these Eastern refugees, Hitler himself was a bohemian and shared their need for freedom and tradition. …
The spirit of bohemianism, in which even the most outrageous and ridiculous theories of art and politics were welcome, had existed in Munich since before the turn of the century and had attracted unconventional souls from all over the world. Another political extremist had spent more than a year of his exile from Russia several blocks up Schleissheimerstrasse, at number 106, registered as Herr Meyer, his given name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and in the underground he was known as Lenin. Here a dozen years earlier he had been writing tracts based on the theories of Marx."
[End Quote from: Adolf Hitler, John Toland]
AHitler left Vienna for Munich Sunday, May 25[SUP]th[/SUP] 1913 by train. With his desire to be German not Austrian, it was inevitable that he liked what he found. Seeking lodging he found it at the Popp Tailor Shop advertised by a sign making known to passersby "Furnished rooms to let to respectable men". He got his room. When asked to provide registration card information by Frau Popp, he was "Adolf Hitler, Architectural painter from Vienna".
Respectable by appearance and demeanor maybe, but as noted the psychosis was already present and had been for a while. The hate and like things in the spirit of the man were already rotting the better angels of the man's nature. The man had already shed any semblance of an internal moral compass replacing it with one guided of hate and self-contempt. Already a fine fascist in training in 1913.
He seemingly had a little trouble supporting himself with his art, though it had been easier to peddle starving artist works in Vienna. In Munich, he had to peddle his wares door to door and in Beer halls.
From: Adolf Hitler, John Toland:
"Munich in 1913 with its 600,000 inhabitants was, after Paris, about the liveliest cultural center in Europe, and for some years had been attracting a breed of artists that Hitler himself found decadent: Paul Klee from Switzerland and refugees from the east like Kandinsky, Jawlensky and the Burlink brothers. … Despite his distaste for these Eastern refugees, Hitler himself was a bohemian and shared their need for freedom and tradition. …
The spirit of bohemianism, in which even the most outrageous and ridiculous theories of art and politics were welcome, had existed in Munich since before the turn of the century and had attracted unconventional souls from all over the world. Another political extremist had spent more than a year of his exile from Russia several blocks up Schleissheimerstrasse, at number 106, registered as Herr Meyer, his given name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and in the underground he was known as Lenin. Here a dozen years earlier he had been writing tracts based on the theories of Marx."
[End Quote from: Adolf Hitler, John Toland]
Sometimes much is made of AHitler's failure in Vienna as an artist. This failure has been presented as a turning point' in the descent into madness by the future master of western Europe. Excuses abound in his life if excuses are sought. I am not in the excuse business, though.
He adopted and adapted to the bohemian life style that provided the freedom of thought and allowed for eccentricities of personality.
There is a significant difference between the account of AHitler's alleged leaving Vienna for Munich in John Toland's biography and William Shirer's account of the same events.
Shirer posits AHitler as "probably" leaving Vienna to avoid conscription into the Austrian Army because of the racial mix of the Austrian empire.
Toland provides more details and his information doesn't support or deny the draft dodging issue.
On January 18[SUP]th[/SUP], 1914 at 3:30 pm the Munich police served notice to AHitler to report to Linz for induction into the Austrian Army on the 20[SUP]th[/SUP].
In 1910 while in Vienna he had requested permission to report for service and he had heard nothing in reply until this arrest and being taken under guard to the Austrian Consulate General's office the 19[SUP]th[/SUP]. Reportedly, the police officers were sympathetic. He was liable to prison and a fine if judged guilty of evasion of military service. The Consulate allowed AHitler to send a telegram to Linz to request an extension he did not secure.
He wrote a letter to Linz and the Consulate attached a note. He and the Munich police thought the young man was honest. The end result, was that AHitler reported to a closer location than Linz for examination. He traveled at the Consulate General's expense. On February 5[SUP]th[/SUP], he was found "unfit for combatant and auxiliary duty".
He was too weak.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON