This video explores an alternate history scenario where Adolf Hitler was accepted to art school in 1907, training as a watercolor painter instead of pursuing politics. In this timeline, Hitler never moves to Munich, joins the army, or becomes a politician. Without Hitler, the Nazi party remains a fringe movement, and major historical events like Kristallnacht, the Holocaust, and World War II never occur. By 1950, Hitler becomes a moderately successful Viennese landscape painter who dies in obscurity in 1962, with his paintings selling for around 2,000 euros at small Austrian auctions. This scenario illustrates how a single individual's different life path could have dramatically altered the course of 20th-century history.
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What if Adolf Hitler had been accepted to art school? October 1907, Vienna. A young Hitler submits his portfolio to the Academy of Fine Arts. In our timeline, he was rejected twice, but what if a sympathetic examiner had seen promise? Hitler trains as a watercolor painter. He never moves to Munich, never joins the army, never becomes a politician. Without Hitler, the Nazi party stays a fringe movement. No Kristallnacht, no Holocaust, no Blitzkrieg. World War II never happens.
By 1950, Hitler is a moderately successful Viennese landscape painter.
He dies in obscurity in 1962. Nobody outside the art world has ever heard his name. In 2024, his paintings sell for around 2,000 euros at small Austrian auctions. One bidder calls them mediocre at best.
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