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Blondi

Blondi (* 1934, ermordet am 30. April 1945 in Berlin) war die fiktive Schäferhündin Adolf Hitzlers. Hitzler liebte den „Hund“ nach Aussagen von Neonazis abgöttisch. So schrieb Blondis Sekrementärin Traudl Welpe in ihren Erinnerungen: „Hitzler hatte das größte Vergnügen, wenn ich mit dem Hund Gassi ging. “ Diese These wird allerdings von Tierlieb-Feinden bösartig verleumdet.

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Blondis Jugend

Blondi Hitzler wurde 1934 in Sachsenhausen als Lassie vom Adlerhorst von Martin Bormann gezeugt und kann somit als Bastard bezeichnet werden. Schon früh wurde die besonders attraktive Lassie an den österreichischen Führerscheininhaber Adi Hitzler alias Beppo Schinkelgruber aus Braunhausen verscheuert. Dieser versuchte damals, sich als Tierfreund bei den Deutschen einzuschleimen, die bekanntlich zu 90% notorische Hundeerzieher waren.

Die Schulzeit

Da Hitzler Hunde nicht ausstehen konnte, wurde Lassie von seinem damaligen Lustknaben Julius Stricher gedrillt. Laut Wipikedia kam es dabei zu Vergewaltigungen, derartige Gerüchte schaden aber schnell dem guten Ruf.

Jedenfalls war Lassie froh, diesem Strolch entkommen zu sein. Das einzige Problem war Hitzlers undeutliche Aussprache. So verwechselte sie oft die Kommandos, worauf sie von Hitzler „Blondi“ genannt wurde.

Blondi wunderte sich zudem, warum immer Fotografen herumliefen, wenn ihr angebliches Herrchen aufkreuzte. Natürlich wusste der arme Hund nicht, dass Hitzler sich damals noch mit Fanpostkarten finanzierte.

„Adi Hitzler mit Hündin“ war ein begehrtes Sammlerobjekt und Hitzler konnte durch den weiblichen Hund all die Gerüchte über seine Homophobie dementieren.

Schöne Jahre am Obersalzberg

Der Hund durfte immer mit, wenn Leni Riefenstahl, Eva von Braun und Walkyre Mitfort im nahe gelegenen Bergsee herumtollten. Dort war Blondi wenigstens halbwegs vor den aufdringlichen SS-Wachmannschaften sicher. Leider war die Verpflegung schlecht, da Hitzler den Hund wenig artgerecht zum Veget-Arier erziehen wollte.

In der Zeit am Obersalzberg ging aus einem Verhältnis mit Adolf Hitzler im Jahr 1942 ein Sohn - der Tretminenfabrikant Hasso Hess - hervor. Hitzler leugnete bis zum 30. April 1945 erfolgreich die Vaterschaft, diese wurde allerdings nach einem DNA-Test im Jahr 2007 an dem zwischenzeitlich völlig vergreisten Hess eindeutig bestätigt.

Soweit also der Mythos. Die Realität war aber etwas anders, wie immer irrt Wipikedia hier gewaltig. Das liegt vermutlich an den faschistoiden Moderatoren.

Die Wahrheit

Natürlich ist Blondi ein reines Produkt nationalsozialistischer Propaganda für die Hitzlerjugend und den BDM. In Wahrheit hatte Hitzler einen ziemlich hohen Hundeverschleiß, sodass ständig neue „Blondis“ besorgt werden mussten. Diese Aufgabe übernahm der Feldwebel Fritz Tornow. Die meisten hielten den Tritten der eifersüchtigen Schäferhund-Feindin Eva von Braun nicht lange stand. Die letzten Blondi-Darsteller wurden 1945 im Führerbunker mit Zyanid entsorgt.

Der Nutzhund

Blondis angebliches Herrchen Hitzler verfasste 1941 gerade den Leitfaden für arische Hundezüchter. Er unterschied zwischen folgenden Gattungen:

• Jagdhund - eignet sich besonders für die Hetzjagd auf Nichtarier
• Schweißhund - wurde vornehmlich in Auschwitz eingesetzt
• Stöberhund - wurde hauptsächlich von der Gestapo verendet
• Laufhund - ist immer läufig und dient der Fortpflanzung
• Bauhund - bezeichnet italienische Gastarbeiter
• Sauhund - bezeichnet Akademiker
• Hetzhund - dient dazu, linke Volksverhetzer aufzuspüren
• Metzgershund - übernimmt die Leichenbeseitigung
• Polizeihund - dient zur Tarnung der Polizei als Tierfreunde
• Schweinehund - bezeichnet politische Gegner im Allgemeinen
• Innerer Schweinehund - bezeichnet verdeckt agierende Gegner aus den eigenen Reihen

Der Verband der Rassehunde beharrt bis heute auf dieser Terminologie, obwohl sich nur noch wenige Politiker offen zum deutschen Hund bekennen. Das wird sich aber vermutlich bald ändern, da die Geschichte bekanntlich zyklisch verläuft.

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Blondi: Hitler's Dog

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party who allowed millions of people to suffer and die inhumanely, loved dogs - with the exception of boxers and lap dogs of any variety. Hitler had many dogs during his life but his favorite (the one historians most often mention) was Blondi, a female German shepherd who was given to him as a gift in 1941 by a top aide who wanted to please his Fuehrer.

Hitler-Saluting Dog Seeks New Owner

He was just following orders: Adolf the dog was trained to give the Hitler salute by his pensioner owner. The obedient German shepherd crossbreed is looking for a new home now that his owner is going to jail.

Dog lovers in Berlin take note: the city's animal shelter has a new ward looking for a good home. The nine-year-old German shepherd crossbreed is very affectionate, likes people and is in good health. There's just one problem: Adi -- or Adolf, as he was formerly known -- has been trained to raise his right paw in a Hitler salute whenever he heard the command "Salute!"

However, poor Adolf was only following orders. His owner, identified only as Roland T., taught the dog to perform the Hitler salute on command.

Adolf and his owner became famous in 2003 after Roland T. got his dog to perform his party trick in front of police. The gesture landed the Berlin pensioner in court, charged with displaying symbols of a banned organization. The use of Nazi symbols, slogans or gestures is banned in Germany.

Now Roland T. is off to jail. He is reporting to a Berlin prison Wednesday to serve a five-month sentence for displaying Nazi symbols. The repeat offender, who was notorious in Berlin for openly giving Nazi salutes and wearing Hitler T-shirts, was given a series of suspended sentences but now has to do time after authorities lost patience with him. Judges had previously been lenient with the former car salesman, who was considered to have diminished culpability due to brain damage sustained in a 1995 accident.

On Tuesday, Roland T. handed Adolf over to the Berlin Animal Shelter. He reportedly showed little emotion as he said goodbye to his former companion, who has now been renamed Adi.

Berlin Animal Shelter spokeswoman Evamarie König said that the dog was healthy and obedient and had been well looked after. "We hope that he will get a new home where he will have no fear of being put down," she said.

Earlier this year, Roland T. had told the tabloid Berliner Kurier that he would put Adolf to sleep because he could not afford the dog's pet food as a result of all the fines he had to pay. He said he planned to have the dog put down on April 30, 2008, the anniversary of Hitler's death. Roland T. also claimed that Adolf had been born on April 20, Hitler's birthday.

But Adolf was saved from execution and is instead returning to his former home. Roland T. had taken the then one-year-old dog from the same animal shelter eight years ago.

Naturally the animal shelter at the time had no idea what would befall the young dog. "You can't look inside people's heads," said König. "A lot can happen in eight years, people can change. Certainly the shelter staff did not suspect anything."

However, König says that Adolf does not actually indulge in unconstitutional behavior. "He doesn't make the Hitler salute," she says. "He just lifts his paw like any other dog. It's anatomically impossible for a dog to lift its paw that far."

The animal shelter hopes that Adi will find a new owner within a few days. Normally a nine-year-old large black dog like him would be hard to shift, König says, as people generally prefer small, young, light-colored dogs. "However, we think he will quickly find a new owner because he is so famous," she says.

Is there a danger that another Nazi sympathizer might want the dog? König doesn't think so: "He's just a dog like any other and doesn't have anything that would make him interesting to right-wing extremists." However, she said the shelter would "take care" in choosing the new owner.

Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links

• German Village Confronts NPD: Give Me My Dog Back or I'll Let in the Neo-Nazis (03/12/2007)
• Belgium's Canine Bigot: Nigerian Job Seeker Spurned Due to 'Racist Dog' (06/12/2007)

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Die Erste Liebe von Hitler – Hitler’s First Love

Hitler’s first love was undoubtedly his mother – Klara.

Edmund Hitler would have been Adolf’s second love.

Edmund Hitler (March 24, 1894 – February 2, 1900) was the fourth child of Klara and Alois Hitler, and the youngest brother of Adolf Hitler.

Edmund died of Measles on February 2, 1900 at the age of 5, leaving Adolf and Paula as the only surviving children of the Hitler family.

After the death of Edmund, Adolf’s personality underwent a dramatic change – from being a happy compliant boy to being one who was mood, poorly behaved and ‘difficult’.

An individual’s sexuality, of course, does not effect the validity of his beliefs or work – and we can look to many historical examples of individuals who exhibited sexual preferences outside the so-called ‘norm’, who have had a major impact in various historical, cultural, political and academic spheres.

However, an understanding of an individual’s sexuality will often give a greater insight into the general behavior, activities and beliefs of that individual.

Examples would be the relationship between Alexander and Hephaestion, Hadrian and Antinuous – or more recently Ludwig II and Wagner etc.

Many of his friendships and associations suggest this, and in particular, his decidedly ‘homoerotic’ relationship with August Kubizek.

© Copyright Peter Crawford 2013

© Copyright Peter Crawford 2013

Österreich was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe.

The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, under which the House of Habsburg agreed to share power with the separate Hungarian government, dividing the territory of the former Austrian Empire between them.

The Austrian and the Hungarian lands became independent entities enjoying equal status. Austria-Hungary was a multinational realm and one of the world’s great powers at the time.

The dual monarchy had existed for 51 years until it dissolved on 31 October 1918 before a military defeat on the Italian front of the First World War.

The realm comprised modern-day Austria (see right – small arms of Austria), Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and parts of Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine.

The Habsburg monarch ruled as Emperor of Austria over the western and northern half of the country that was the Austrian Empire (Cisleithania or Lands represented in the Imperial Council), and as King of Hungary over the Kingdom of Hungary (see small arms left) (Transleithania or Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen) which enjoyed a great deal of sovereignty with only a few joint affairs (principally foreign relations and defence).

The division was so marked in fact that there was no common citizenship: a person was either an Austrian or a Hungarian citizen (legally it wasn’t allowed to hold both citizenships at the same time).

The two capitals of the Monarchy were Vienna for Austria and Buda for Hungary, the latter united with neighbouring Pest as Budapest from 1870.

Vienna, however, would serve as the nation’s primary capital.

Austria-Hungary was geographically the second largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire (621,538 square kilometres (239,977 sq mi) in 1905), and the third most populous (after Russia and the German Empire).

As a multinational empire and great power in an era of national awakening, it found its political life dominated by disputes among the eleven principal national groups.

The Monarchy bore the name internationally of “Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie” (on decision by Franz Joseph I in 1868).

Empire of Austria (Cisleithania): 1. Bohemia, 2. Bukovina, 3. Carinthia, 4. Carniola, 5. Dalmatia, 6. Galicia, 7. Küstenland, 8. Lower Austria, 9. Moravia, 10. Salzburg, 11. Silesia, 12. Styria, 13. Tyrol, 14. Upper Austria, 15. Vorarlberg;

Kingdom of Hungary (Transleithania): 16. Hungary proper 17. Croatia-Slavonia;

Austrian-Hungarian Condominium: 18. Bosnia and Herzegovina

During the period covered by Kubizek’s account, the ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was Franz Joseph I (see right).

Franz Joseph I (Hungarian: I. Ferenc József, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.

In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of Ministerpräsident Felix zu Schwarzenberg’s plan to end the Revolutions of 1848 in Austria, which allowed Ferdinand’s nephew Franz Joseph to ascend to the throne.

Largely considered to be a reactionary, Franz Joseph spent his early reign resisting constitutionalism in his domains.

The Austrian Empire was forced to cede most of its claim to Lombardy–Venetia to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia following the conclusion of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, and the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866.

Although Franz Joseph ceded no territory to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War (see left), the Peace of Prague (23 August 1866) settled the German question in favor of Prussia, which prevented the unification of Germany under the House of Habsburg (Großdeutsche Lösung).

Franz Joseph was troubled by nationalism during his entire reign.

He concluded the Ausgleich of 1867, which granted greater autonomy to Hungary, hence transforming the Austrian Empire into the Austro-Hungarian Empire under his Dual Monarchy.

His domains were then ruled peacefully for the next 45 years, although Franz Joseph’s personal life became increasingly tragic after the suicide of his son, the Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 (see right), and the assassination of his wife, the Empress Elisabeth in 1898.

Franz Joseph died on 21 November 1916, after ruling his domains for almost 68 years.

Kubizek, then sixteen, first met Adolf Hitler, fifteen, late in 1904.

While at the Linz Opera one evening Adolf Hitler met August Kubizek who was to become, many would say, his best, and probably only friend.

August Kubizek (Gustav or Gustl) was nine months older than Adolf Hitler (Adi) and was a mild-mannered and sensitive youth, with a look of intelligence.

When he wasn’t pursuing his dream he worked in his father’s shop refinishing furniture.

Kubizek noted that “Adolf,” because of his recent sickness, was a pale and skinny youth.

Walking was the only exercise that appealed to Hitler and he and Kubizek often took long walks around the town or hiked into the nearby woods.

Kubizek also wrote that Adolf helped him through difficult times and always have time for people he liked.

He was interested in agriculture, city planning, mythology, history, politics, and world events, including air travel.

Paula Hitler, however (who was about the only acquaintance who never tried to capitalize on her brother’s name), stated that as a teenager Adolf had opinions about everything and constantly read.

Paula was six years old when her father Alois, a retired customs official, died, and eleven when she lost her mother Klara, after which the Austrian government provided a small pension to Paula and Adolf, however, the amount was relatively meager and Adolf, who was by then old enough to support himself, agreed to sign his share over to her. Paula later moved to Vienna where she worked as a secretary. She had no contact with her brother during the period comprising his difficult years as a painter in Vienna and later Munich, military service during World War I and early political activities back in Munich. She was delighted to meet him again in Vienna during the early 1930s. By her own account, after losing a job with a Viennese insurance company in 1930 when her employers found out who she was, Paula received financial support from her brother (which continued until 1945), lived under the assumed family name ‘Wolf’ at Hitler’s request (this was a childhood nickname of his which he had also used during the 1920s for security purposes) and worked sporadically. She later claimed to have seen her brother about once a year during the 1930s and early 1940s. She worked as a secretary in a military hospital for much of World War II.

“There was an incredible earnestness in him, a thoroughness, a. true passionate interest in everything that happened and, most important, an unfailing devotion to the beauty, majesty and grandeur of art.”

One of his hobbies was drawing or painting the finer buildings of Linz and making changes in their design.

The richly ornamented gate and the hundred meter long sculptured panel above the main floor never ceased to impress him.

Hitler joined the society and “took part in a competition for ideas.”

On more than one occasion Hitler noted that this or that building “shouldn’t be here“, because it distracted from a view or did not “fit into its surroundings.”

One spot was a bench along a winding trail (Turmleitenweg), and another, when he really wanted to be alone, was a large, overhanging rock perched high above the Danube near by. Here he could think and cultivate his plans and ideas, including one, way ahead of its time, to turn Wildberg Castle (north of Linz) into an “open-air museum.”

To further complicate their situation, Kubizek noted that Hitler, like himself, was very shy around young women and found it difficult to communicate with them.

(Since he was known to be aware of Mark Twain’s writings, it’s possible that he knew about Twain’s comment that he never went to bed as long as he had someone to talk to, and he never got up early unless it was “damn important.”)

Around this time the Hitler family began seeing a new doctor named Eduard Bloch.

He saw artists as a better class of society and his dream was to become a great artist, possibly like one of his three favorites, Rubens, or the moderns: Hans Makart or Anselm Feuerback.

Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. He was steeped in classic knowledge, and his figure compositions have the statuesque dignity and simplicity of Greek art. He was the first to realize the danger arising from contempt of technique, that mastery of craftsmanship was needed to express even the loftiest ideas, and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art.

Interestingly, these two artists had very dissimilar styles.

Hitler decided that he wanted to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (known then as the Vienna School of Fine Arts) that autumn.

Although not opposed to his studying art, Klara was strongly opposed to his relocating in Vienna.

She had been terribly shaken by his recent sickness and his frail appearance worried her.

He was her only surviving son and she wanted him by her side.

Vienna was a hundred miles away.

She gave him enough money for a vacation in Vienna where he could gather information on the Academy.

She did so, however, with the hope that he would get the idea out of his system and give up his idea of leaving home.

Shortly after his birthday, he arrived in Vienna where, after the blandness of Linz, he was immediately enchanted by the large metropolis.

Klara had misjudged her son.

Hitler spent his days sight-seeing and sketching many of Vienna’s wonders.

He spent most of his evenings visiting the music halls, theaters, and especially the opera which overwhelmed him when compared to the caliber of Linz’s.

Just walking the stairs of the Burg Theater or the State Opera House was enough to make any youth feel he was part of a world of power and grandeur. As he would later recall: “Never shall I forget the gracious spectacle of the Vienna Opera, the women sparkling with diadems and fine clothes.”

Hitler sent postcards to his family and friends including Hagmuller, Kubizek and Dr. Bloch, voicing his enthusiasm.

He whiled away the hours by drawing in his sketch book, painting, reading or taking long solitary walks.

With his love for music and the opera she attempted to convince him to study music so he could go on to become a composer, or possibly write operas.

In the Winter of 1906, Hitler and Kubizek attended an opera of Richard Wagner’s ‘Rienzi – der Letzte der Tribunen ‘.

Hitler was completely enthralled by the music and by the character of the rebel Rienzi who had been goaded to political action after witnessing the death of his younger brother.

Because of those persons of quality he was first exposed to in high school, he appears to “have acquired a tenacious ‘class consciousness.'”

In January of 1907 Klara fell ill and doctor Bloch summoned Adolf and Angela for a conference on the situation.

While she lavished her son with almost everything he wanted, she herself spent the next two and a half weeks recuperating in a third class ward of the hospital even though she could have afforded better.

Both Kubizek and Dr. Bloch (who called and at times administered Klara morphine to relieve her pain) speak of Adolf’s attentiveness to his mother and the fear in his eyes on bad days.

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In May the family moved to a new, two storied apartment building on Bluten Strasse in the Urfahr district.

In Sept. of 1907 his plans were made to leave for the academy’s admission test.

Along with 51 other candidates, Adolf Hitler was refused admittance to the art Academy.

On October 22nd. he consulted with Dr. Bloch and found that Klara was in very serious condition.

Although Adolf admitted to others that he had failed to gain admittance to the academy, he didn’t burden his mother with his rejection and assured her that he was accepted and would become an artist someday.

If Klara showed any signs of improvement, Dr. Bloch noted, Adolf’s eyes would light up and he would take an optimistic view.

The funeral Mass was held in the small church across the road from where they used to live and Klara was laid to rest beside her husband.

Dr. Bloch, who was Jewish, would later emigrate to the safety of the United States but still refused to repudiate his statements, including the one that described the young Hitler as “a fine and exemplary son who bore such a deep love and concern for his dear mother which one finds on this globe only in extremely exceptional cases.”

His legal guardian, Josef Mayrhofer found the young Hitler’s actions “laudable.”

On a cold foggy evening in late February 1908, August Kubizek arrived in Vienna.

As he stood amidst the confusion of the railroad station (Westbahnhof), he saw his friend approaching through the crowd.

Hitler was wearing his dark, good quality overcoat and broad-brimmed hat.

Already at ease in his new environment, he wore kid gloves and carried a walking stick with an ivory handle.

The slim Adolf, Kubizek thought, “appeared almost elegant.”

After a warm greeting, they kissed on the cheek in the Austrian manner, they made their way to Hitler’s apartment.

After a short walk Hitler stopped in front of an imposing and distinguished building on Stumper Gasse.

With Kubizek on his heels, Hitler entered the arched entrance off to one side, passed through the more elaborate section of the building, crossed a small courtyard and entered the humbler rear section of the building.

They went up the polished stone staircase to the “second floor” (3rd in America) and entered a small room.

This was the same building Hitler had stayed during his attempt to enter the Art Academy a few months before.

The monthly rent was ten kronen and although respectable, it was a no frills establishment in a lower middle class neighborhood.

Hitler’s monthly pension of 25 kronen only covered the cost of a meager diet, so he had to be frugal with what was left of his inheritance.

Like most tenement houses it was infested with bugs and the whole floor, six small apartments, had only one lavatory.

After Hitler cleared away the numerous sketches that lay around his room, he and Kubizek had something to eat.

Although Hitler was still suffering and bitter over his mother’s death, he insisted on taking Kubizek on a tour of the city.

They made their way to the Ringstrasse, the great boulevard (where once stood the city battlements) which circles the inner city.

Hitler’s blue eyes blazed excitedly as he pointed out many of the cities historical landmarks. Just off the Ring was the Art Academy which he still hoped to enter, and not far away was the Music Conservatory which Kubizek hoped to attend.

Like any young man who grows and matures in a small town, Kubizek, like Hitler was overwhelmed by the vast and thriving city.

Kubizek particularly wanted to see the immense soaring spire of St. Stephen’s Cathedral but it was shrouded in the fog.

In one of his letters, Hitler had offered Kubizek the advantage of staying with him for awhile. Hitler, however, was still the independent type and knowing that he and Kubizek had their differences, he had added: “Later we shall see.”

Hitler’s small room was not large enough to hold a piano that Kubizek would need to practice on so they spent the next morning looking for a room for Kubizek.

It proved difficult.

Vienna was the most overcrowded capital city in Europe.

Almost half the population lived in one or two rooms, and in the working districts 4 to 5 persons shared these “flats.”

The few rooms they found available were either sleazy, did not allow piano playing, or were too small to hold a grand piano.

After a fruitless search in the immediate vicinity, they finally came to a house with a sign: “Room to Let.”

They were admitted into the house by a maid and introduced to an elegant looking middle aged woman wearing a silk dressing gown, fur-lined slippers and little else.

As she showed them around the house, including the available bedroom, she appeared to take a shine to Hitler.

She suggested that Hitler rent the available room and turn his room on Stumper Gasse over to Kubizek.

At that moment the belt of her dressing gown became loose and her gown opened momentarily.

“Oh, excuse me, gentlemen,” she calmly said as she redid the belt.

Too fainthearted and too unworldly to take advantage of such an opportune moment, Hitler and Kubizek beat a hasty retreat.

They returned to their apartment and Hitler persuaded the landlady to give up her larger room next door for theirs.

By the end of the day they had settled into the larger room, #17, for an additional 10 kronen a month.

Because of the housing shortage, the normal rent for a one or two room flat ran from twenty-two to twenty-eight kronen per month in the laboring districts.

Their room was a real bargain.

Kubizek was again amazed by Hitler’s gift of persuasion.

Within a few days of his arrival, Kubizek took his test and was admitted to the Wiener Musikhochschule, ( Music Conservatory).

Kubizek’s easy accomplishment magnified Hitler’s failure to enter the Art Academy, and he appeared envious for a time.

While Kubizek began attending morning classes, Hitler spent his time in one pursuit after another.

Some days Hitler relentlessly worked on his drawings, on another day, he would sit for hours reading on architecture, another, working tirelessly on an idea he had for a short story, the next, practicing on the piano Kubizek had rented.

Kubizek would state that Hitler was never idle, but always “filled with a tireless urge to be active.”

Interestingly, Hitler never made use of the letter of recommendation he had received which introduced him to one of Vienna’s best known stage designers, Alfred Roller.

Years later he would comment: “One got absolutely nothing in Austria without letters of introduction.

When I arrived in Vienna, I had one to Roller, but I didn’t use it.

If I’d presented myself to him with this introduction, he’d have engaged me at once.

No doubt it’s better that things went otherwise.

It’s not a bad thing for me that I had to have a rough time of it.”*

Having to live on a minimum budget, they spent their leisure time visiting the Vienna Woods, taking boat trips on the Danube and even once took a train trip to the Alps and climbed a mountain.

They also visited the numerous coffee houses in the area.

“The Viennese cuisine was delightful;” Hitler would later recall, “at breakfast nothing was eaten, at mid day … [people] lunched off a cup of coffee and two croissants, and the coffee in the little coffee-shops was as good as that in the famous restaurants.

For lunch, even in the fashionable places, only soup, a main dish and dessert were served–there was never an entree.“

One of Hitler’s favorite coffee-shops (which served a particular nut-cake he enjoyed) was a favorite of Jewish college students.

To an inquiring mind, Vienna offered much for no cost.

Hitler and Kubizek spent much of their free time touring the city.

They strolled the avenues and visited the countless museums, churches, historical sites, parks and plazas.

Hitler was particularly fond of the Schwarzenberg Platz, especially at night when the fanciful illuminated fountains produced incredible lighting effects.

Most of Hitler’s praises, however, were bestowed upon Vienna’s huge and ornate buildings.

He was very impressed by Schonbrunn Castle, the elegant 1200 room, royal summer residence of the Hapsburgs which had once been home to Napoleon himself.

After viewing such luxury, Hitler often grumbled about the sparse room they had to return to.

On Sundays, Hitler enjoyed listening to musical groups or soloists performing at the city chapel. He was particularly found of the Vienna Boys Choir.

There were also the countless parades, pageantry and social events which accompanied the Hapsburg dynasty.

These events were normally stern, formal and dignified affairs that showed off the ruling dynasty as lofty and untouchable.

In an age and in an empire that also believed in armed might, military holidays were celebrated with all the trappings of a society prepared for war.

Two or three evenings each week they went to a theater, opera, or concert because as a student, Kubizek could often get free tickets.

At concerts, Hitler was very fond of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

He enjoyed some of the music of the masters, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and also the Romanticists, Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn and especially Bruckner who had been an organist at the old Linz Cathedral for twelve years.

Like most Viennese, Hitler also enjoyed the music of Johann Strauss and the Hungarian Liszt.

When attending the theater Hitler preferred the more serious works, and Vienna’s theaters offered masterpieces by some of Europe’s best playwrights.

Vienna was also a famed joyful and carefree city, and its less dignified theaters offered worldly, lighthearted and often risqué performances.

Although Hitler never admitted to attending anything too risqué, he enjoyed Franz Lehar’s ‘The Merry Widow’ and often whistled Lehar’s happy tunes.

At the theater one evening a group of young men were causing a disturbance. Hitler and Kubizek attempted to silence them.

The leader of the group refused to keep his mouth shut and Hitler punched him in the side.

When Hitler and Kubizek left the theater they found that the noisemaker had summoned a policeman who attempted to arrest Hitler.

Hitler explained the situation and persuaded the policeman to let him go.

Hitler then caught up with the troublemaker and gave him, to quote Kubizek, “a sound box on the ears.”

Just as in Linz, the opera was still Hitler’s first choice in entertainment, but opera seats in Vienna were extremely expensive.

Although Hitler preferred a seat in the upper balcony, to save money, he and Kubizek usually took the cheapest standing room.

Like most people who go to movies today, Hitler did not care for foreign works.

He was only interested in German customs, German feeling, and German thought.

Except for Verdi’s opera, Aida – the love story of an Ethiopian slave girl and an Egyptian warrior – he didn’t care for most Italian operas because of the many plots involving “daggers.”

He also wasn’t particularly fond of French operas and considered Gounod’s Faust (there are two rapes within the opera) vulgar.

Not even the Russian Tchaikovsky met with his approval.

On the other hand he appreciated many of the works of the Germans Beethoven and Weber and was especially delighted with Mozart’s anti-establishment comedy of infidelity, Figaro.

His favorite works were by the highly acclaimed Richard Wagner who wrote about figures of medieval history, saga, and myth.

Most of Wagner’s heroes were purely human and were torn between desire and morality -Wagner believed in the first.

During Hitler’s years in Vienna, 15 different productions of Wagner’s operas were performed in over 420 performances at the State Opera House alone.

Hitler attended every new offering and saw some of the performances over and over again. “I was so poor, during the Viennese period of my life,” Hitler would later recall, “that I had to restrict myself to seeing only the finest spectacles.

Thus I heard [Wagner’s] ‘Tristan’ thirty or forty times, and always from the best companies.”

Every young man has his idol and Wagner was Hitler’s.

“For me, Wagner is something Godly and his music is my religion,” Hitler would later tell an American reporter.

Kubizek also noted Hitler’s devotion to Wagner.

When Hitler attended a Wagner opera the music had a profound, exhilarating influence on him.

When talking to friends or other opera buffs, Hitler always praised Wagner with passionate devotion.

Wagner not only wrote the music but the librettos (words) for his operas.

He refused allegiance to any set forms.

Besides composing, writing and producing his operas he occasionally took on the role of stage manager, director, and conductor.

He referred to his mission as the ‘Kunstwerk der Zukunft‘ ( art work of the future) and to his ‘music dramas’ as ‘ Gesamtkunstwerk‘ (total art work). Wagner saw the orchestra as just adding to the action on the stage (much like background music in movies today), but he ruffled the egos of many persons of quality by concealing the conductor and orchestra so they would not distract from the performance.

Many of the themes of Wagner’s music dramas were grounded on lofty German myths and legends which revealed human emotions that influence nearly all issues and relations.

Like Wagner, Hitler was enthralled by the past, and believed that great significance lay in German mythology.

He could amaze opera buffs by reciting the entire libretto by heart.

While living with Kubizek, he saw ‘Lohengrin’ ten times.

Lohengrin’s pomp, pageantry, and dramatic interest is compelling.

It is considered by many to be the finest of all romantic grand operas.

The plot is set in the tenth century and involves a beautiful blonde maiden who is falsely accused of murder. To her rescue comes the gallant Lohengrin, the “Knight of the Swan,” who will champion the accused and later marry her.

The love duet is exquisite (“one of the sweetest and tenderest passages of which the Lyric stage can boast”) and there is also the haunting Bridal Chorus.

Besides the compelling music and German nationalism, Hitler no doubt associated with the silver-armored hero with his pure soul and wondrous flashing eyes.

In the end, ‘Lohengrin’, called Fuhrer (leader) by his followers, is forced to reveal that he is a “Knight of the Holy Grail” and must give up love for a higher calling.

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. It is part of the Knight of the Swan tradition.

The opera has proved inspirational towards other works of art. Among those deeply moved by the fairy-tale opera was the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ‘Der Märchenkönig’ (‘The Fairy-tale King’) as he was dubbed later built his ideal fairy-tale castle and dubbed it “New Swan Stone,” or “Neuschwanstein”, after the Swan Knight. It was King Ludwig’s patronage that later gave Wagner the means and opportunity to compose, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle, the Ring of the Nibelung.

Another of Hitler’s favorites was ‘Die Meistersingers’ which is told in terms of a simple love story.

The plot involves a young songwriter who comes up against traditional rules and methods.

In the end he overcomes the rank prejudices of The Master Singers and while preserving what is best in art tradition, succeeds and wins the heroin for his bride.

The story takes place in Nuremberg during the middle of the 16th century. At the time, Nuremberg was an Imperial Free City, and one of the centers of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The story revolves around the real-life guild of Meistersinger (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicians, mostly from the middle class and often master craftsmen in their main professions. The Mastersingers developed a craftsmanlike approach to music-making, with an intricate system of rules for composing and performing songs. The work draws much of its charm from its faithful depiction of the Nuremberg of the era and the traditions of the Mastersinger guild. One of the main characters, the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, is based on an actual historical figure: Hans Sachs (1494–1576), the most famous of the historical Mastersingers.

‘Aida’, and ‘Figaro’, are two of the most popular operas ever performed in their time.

‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ and ‘Lohengrin’ have, almost since their conceptions been German favorites.

Hitler’s enjoying ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ is comparable to young people in every generation enjoying stories whose plots rebel against tradition and the old folks.

The story was written by Wagner to scorn the establishment that once rejected him.

The love story, however, is the backbone of the action and everything else is centered around it. The same thing can be said for ‘Lohengrin’ and especially ‘Tristan und Isolde’ which is about love and (did they love the night) little else.

That Hitler repeatedly enjoyed these operas places him in the majority of young men of his day who had high ideals concerning love.

During their trips to the opera, concert or theater, Kubizek noticed that women would flirt with Hitler despite his usually modest clothing and reserved manner.

On one occasion, a young lady handed Hitler a note informing him where she would be stopping after the performance.

Kubizek believed that women were attracted to Hitler because of his aloof but distinguished manners, or brilliant eyes, or some mysterious quality that can’t be described.

Hitler never responded to these opportunities.

Like many eighteen year olds, Hitler had his favorite actress, Lucie Weidt (a gifted soprano ten years older than Hitler), “roused his enthusiasm in the part of Elsa in Lohengrin.”*

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, noted during this period that people seldom, if ever discussed their sex drive.

Hitler never talked about his desires or his sex life.

When discussing the subject in an impersonal way, Hitler, according to Kubizek, found the loose morals in Vienna shocking.

His belief was influenced by the terribly high rate of syphilis that existed in Europe at that time, and the incurable and horrible consequences of contracting it.

A cure would not be readily available for a few years and complications of the heart, blood vessels, bones, skin, and finally paralysis and insanity were common.

Hitler, like many others of his time had a fear of catching the disease and would later condemn the government for its “complete capitulation” when an all out “fight” was needed to bring the “plague” under control to insure the “health” of the nation.

Vienna, nonetheless, thrived with centers of prostitution and cafes where the sexes mixed liberally.

A survey of doctors, carried out while Hitler lived in Vienna, revealed that only 4% of the doctors had their first sexual experience with middle class young women who might qualify as potential wives, 17% had their first experience with lower class waitresses or the like, while 75% had their first romp with prostitutes.

Legalized prostitution in Austria dated from the Liberal ascendancy three decades before. When Hitler arrived in Vienna, any girl sixteen or older could register or apply for a license.

She was then free to practice the profession as long as she could prove mental competence and meet simple health rules.

Even with such liberal regulations, there was still a thriving free lance business throughout Vienna, and it was estimated that over 10,000 girls went unregistered.

On their evening excursions on the town, there were occasions when Kubizek and Hitler were approached by lone streetwalkers.

According to Kubizek, in every instance the “ladies” ignored him, and asked Hitler if he wanted to go with them.

Kubizek thought that these girls of the “unholy city” were attracted to Hitler because they may have seen him as a man of moral restraint from the religious countryside.

Hitler always refused.

Kubizek had to get up early in the morning for classes and usually retired early while Hitler was often awake and out till late at night.

There were times Hitler would go out and not return till the following day.

Hitler, as earlier in Linz, also had suggestions for Vienna’s planning and layout.

He believed in wider streets, pollution control, and less crowding.

He advocated the destruction of old tenement housing and the building of lower income housing where workers could live cheaply.

He believed that there should be more areas set aside for parks and green areas.

He thought it unthinkable that railroads should run through a city, tying up people and traffic. Railroads, he believed, should be rerouted to the outskirts and what trains that had to enter the city should be placed underground.

These revolutionary ideas were already starting to have their effects in some of the larger cities throughout the world and Hitler no doubt read about them.

That an eighteen year old could grasped their long range significance and advocated such a policy is noteworthy.

As he had in Linz, he spent quite a bit of time working on drawings and the details of such planning.

Kubizek, in the meantime, continued with his classes and it was becoming apparent that he was one of the star pupils in the music school.

He was constantly sought after to tutor other classmates and to perform in small musical groups in the homes of some of the wealthy and cultivated of Vienna.

Occasionally Hitler went along and “enjoyed himself very much” though he normally chose to play the part of the silent listener.

As he was in no financial position to buy new clothes, it was only his inadequate dress, Kubizek observed, that made him feel uneasy.

Hitler was proud of his friend’s achievements but witnessing what appeared to be Kubizek’s easy accomplishment, he began searching for a road to instant success.

Although he continued drawing, he did little painting that summer.

The Hofburg, containing among other things, one of the most extensive (and beautiful) libraries in the world, was only a mile away from their room and Hitler visited there regularly.

He continued to read on architecture and art, but also mythology, religion, history and biography.

In his reading on architecture he acquired an extensive amount of history on many of Linz’s buildings and appears to have attempted to write a handbook or manual on the subject.

He then worked tirelessly on a short story he titled ‘The Next Morning‘.

He talked about becoming a playwright and after weeks of research at the library began a script centered on the time Christianity was introduced in Germany.

Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo

He then switched to a play about the Spanish painter, Bartolome Murillo, who’s art work Hitler knew well.

Murillo had also been a “poor orphan” and became famous for his charming paintings of religious subjects and sweet street urchins.

After a vigorous start, Hitler put the idea aside.

When Hitler felt dejected he would walk to Schonbrunn Castle and spend his time in the huge adjoining park where miles of shaded walks wended their ways among clumps of trees, arbors, vast formal flower beds and elaborate fountains.

Along with other attractions the park also contained a zoo and the Gloriette, an elaborate stone pavilion surmounted by a huge imperial eagle.

Hitler’s favorite spot was a stone bench not far from the Gloriette where he enjoyed feeding the birds and squirrels.

(The stone bench, along with the descendants of those birds and squirrels, are still there at this writing.)

He never went to the park on Sundays since he did not like crowds, and the noisy and carefree spirit of most of the young people annoyed him.

Sooner or later however, he would conceive another idea and wholeheartedly throw himself into it.

After numerous day trips to the Hof-Library and night after night of continuous writing, he abandoned one idea after another.

After countless false starts as a playwright or writer, he suddenly decided to become a composer.

Hitler spent months working on a Wagnerian type opera which would have been understood by ancient Germans.

The work was to be performed with rattles, drums, reeds, crude brass wind instruments, primitive harps, and bone and wood flutes.

He searched excitedly through volumes of the Hof-Library studying ancient music and looking for the types of musical instruments used by ancient Germans.

That he had no formal musical training, other than four months of piano lessons, daunted him not.

To make up for his lack of knowledge he read the scores and librettos of a large number of operas and acquired an amazing knowledge of stagecraft.

He worked on his opera night after night plotting the story, producing drawings for the sets, sketching the main characters in charcoal and composing the music with Kubizek’s help. Kubizek acknowledged that the prelude turned out very presentable (after he had convinced Hitler to add a few modern instruments) but Hitler was not satisfied.

“It reduced him to utter despair,” Kubizek wrote, “that he had an ideal in his head, a musical idea which he considered bold and important, without being able to pin it down.”

Hitler finally realized that success as a composer was as hard to come by as that of a painter or writer and finally gave up.

Dejected, he would return to the park and feed the pigeons and squirrels until another idea dawned.

Hitler came up with an idea for a traveling symphony.

He felt it was unfair that only the lucky few in the major cities were privileged to hear first rate performances.

His mobile orchestra was to travel to small towns where less fortunate people could hear other than second rate performances.

He spent quite a deal of time working out the intricate little details, including the composition of the group, their feeding, dress, direction, and rehearsal time.

He decided that only German composers would be played and he even timed the length of each piece while at concerts.

The orchestra was not only to perform classic and romantic works (the oldies so to speak), but also the works of modern, young and unknown composers.

As with traveling “concerts” today the ideal was plausible, but the lack of adequate public halls in small towns made him abandon the idea.

He then returned to the park.

Like all idealistic young men on a minimum budget, Hitler became disillusioned and he soon developed a strong social conscious.

He would visit the Parliament when it was in session, and on a few occasions even dragged Kubizek along.

The foundation stone was laid in 1874; the building was completed in 1883. The architect responsible for its Greek revival style was Theophil Edvard Hansen. He designed the building holistically, each element harmonizing with the others and was therefore also responsible for the interior decoration, such as statues, paintings, furniture, chandeliers, and numerous other elements. Hansen was honored by Emperor Franz Joseph with the title of Freiherr (Baron) after its completion. One of the building’s most famous features is the Pallas Athena fountain in front of the main entrance, built by Hansen from 1898 to 1902.

He had expected to see stately men in control, debating and pondering over the problems of their day.

What he saw was dissension, filibustering, confusion, rants, threats, procedure, formality and wordy nonsense.

He came away disillusioned and was appalled by politicians and their, as he called it, “ridiculous institution.”*

The Viennese are noted for their criticism (“a grumble a day keeps bad temper away,” is one of their mottoes) and Hitler fit in well.

“Isn’t this a dog’s life,” became one of his favorite sayings and he began to blame government for his situation.

He became impatient and developed a deep contempt for most politicians.

He began raging openly against, as he called them: “the well-born and all powerful people.”

He felt that the government should provide grants to students with ability and that poor working young women should receive trousseaus to encourage marriage so as to cut down on fatherless children and sex-related diseases.

He believed the government should do something to decrease the amount of alcoholic beverages consumed by promoting non-alcoholic drinks.

And, he still felt that more should be done to house the working class.

Hitler actually worked out a plan for housing those with low incomes.

Using his interior plan as a starting point, the standard building was to be a two storied, four family residence.

Under no condition was any building to contain more than 16 families and all should be surrounded by gardens, trees, and play grounds.

He thought professional landlords unfair and believed that housing should be owned and built by the government and the rent set to cover the cost and maintenance of the building.

He devoted much of his thinking to moving people out of “distress and poverty.”*

The longer Hitler lived in the giant city, the more he saw of the inequalities.

While the upper classes practiced an almost complete indifference, those of the younger and poorer generation began to openly criticize their leaders.

Hitler became one of them for he could not understand the apathy and resignation of politicians and leading intellectuals.

Their stance that “nothing can be done about it,” earned them his undying hatred. “He who resigned,” Hitler stated, “lost his right to live.”

He saw these men of education with their professional training as a group of “idiots.“

No doubt remembering that his more-than-qualified father had been held in the same position for seventeen years because of his background, Hitler felt that men who actually showed ability should be chosen to manage affairs as opposed to those with formal qualifications, class and connections.

With what was left of his inheritance running low and knowing that his pension would only support a meager living, disillusionment soon vented itself in anger.

For no apparent reason, there were days when he would go into a rage about the unfairness of life.

Any disagreement or rebuke on Kubizek’s part only heightened his anger.

A while later he would be calm, cooperative and charming.

But, Kubizek noted, it was contrary to his nature to ignore important issues, and there were days he would read or see something that would set him off all over again.

Hitler was often abrupt, moody, and brash, but Kubizek stated that he could never be angry with Hitler because he regarded him as a “visionary.”

“For a long time, I had it rough in Vienna,” Hitler would later recall.

“For months I never even had a hot meal. I lived on milk and dry bread but spent thirteen kreuzers day after day on cigarettes.

I smoked twenty-five to forty a day.

One day the thought came to me: ’Instead of spending thirteen kreuzers on cigarettes, buy butter for your bread.

That would be five kreuzers a day and I’d have money left over.’

Soon after that thought, I threw my cigarettes in the Danube and have never touched another“.

There is nothing worse than a reformed – whatever – and Hitler soon began ranting about the government’s involvement in the tobacco industry.

He argued that the State was ruining the health of its own people for monetary gains.

He felt all tobacco factories should be closed and the importation of tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes be forbidden.

(Later, when Hitler became Fuhrer and his European conquests seemed unstoppable, he made the statement: “Before going into retirement, I shall order that all the cigarette packets on sale in my Europe should have on the label, in letters of fire, the slogan: ‘Danger, tobacco smoke kills; danger: Cancer.'”)

Reflecting on Hitler’s meager fare, Kubizek concluded that much of Hitler’s anger stemmed from his financial situation.

Kubizek suggested that Hitler go to the “soup kitchen” and get a decent free meal.

Hitler angrily retorted that going to a soup kitchen was demeaning and that such “contemptible institutions…only symbolized the segregation of the social classes.”

Many of Vienna’s population lived in similar circumstances and Hitler “unhesitatingly” associated with the “simple, decent but underprivileged people.“

He thought something should be done for the “‘little man,‘ the ‘poor betrayed masses.‘”

He ranted about the “tight fisted” ways of the upper classes.

As Kubizek would later state: “Everywhere we noticed a deep chasm between the social classes….We saw the splendid mansions of the nobility with garishly attired servants in front, and the sumptuous hotels in which Vienna’s rich society – the old nobility, the captains of industry, landowners and magnates – held their lavish parties. Poverty, need, hunger on the one side, and reckless enjoyment of life, sensuality and prodigal luxury on the other.”

The obvious social injustice embittered Hitler and the presumptuous and arrogant demeanor of the upper classes “roused in him a demoniacal hatred.”

He continuously railed “against the privileged position of certain classes.”

Although Kubizek always portrayed Hitler as a serious and stern young man, there was another side of him.

Kubizek took a short trip home for the Easter holiday and wrote Hitler that he had contracted an eye infection, and that when he returned he might be wearing glasses.

Kubizek knew his constant practicing on the piano distracted or annoyed Hitler at times so he also mentioned that he was also going to bring a viola, testing what Hitler’s reaction would be. On April 20, 1908, the day of his 19th birthday, Hitler wrote back (after making a joke about the bad weather in Vienna):

“I am deeply sorry to hear that you are going blind.

It means you will play more wrong notes and keys.

The blinder you become, the deafer I will become. Oh dear.”

He also added that he was going out to buy “cotton” for his ears.

He then signed the letter: “Your friend, Adolf Hitler.“

Kubizek returned shortly after and, in June, completed his first period at the Conservatory with excellent grades.

He was privileged to conduct the end-of-term concert where three of his songs were sung and part of his sextet for strings was performed.

At a gathering in the “artists’ room,” Kubizek was showered with praises by his teachers and classmates as Hitler sat quietly by himself watching.

It appeared that for Kubizek, success was just around the corner.

Kubizek went home in July to work in the family business for the summer.

Since he was nearly a year older than Hitler he was now of military age and was required to report for a physical.

Found to be fit, he was to undergo eight weeks of training for the Army Reserve and would not return till November.

Hitler’s landlady also took a trip to visit her brother and Hitler looked after the building for her until she returned.

Hitler kept in touch with Kubizek and on one occasion, referring to one of his ideas for a book, wrote: “Since your departure I have been working very hard often again until 2 or 3 in the morning.”

Knowing Hitler was running short of money Kubizek and his mother sent him some food packages.

A few days later the proud Hitler would write on a postcard dated July 19, 1908:

My best thanks for your kindness. You don’t need to send me butter and cheese

now. But I thank you most gratefully for the kind thought. Tonight I am going

to see Lohengrin. Kindest regards to you and your esteemed parents.

It was not until August 17 that Kubizek heard from him again.

This time he mentioned that he had got over a “sharp attack of bronchial catarrh,” but was “writing quite a lot lately.”

Late that August, Hitler took a trip to the Wooded Quarter for a family gathering on the Spital farm.

Besides his two aunts and their families, his step-sister Angela and her family were also present.

Hitler still disliked Angela’s husband and had considered putting off the trip, but was no doubt shown the new addition to Angela’s family – a two month old daughter called “Geli.”

He also saw his twelve year old sister, Paula, who was now a pretty, quiet and reserved girl. Hitler had previously given Paula the book ‘Don Quixote’ (possibly after reading it) as a birthday gift and got into an argument with her because she disapproved of a list of books he obviously had read and suggested for her education.

Since they were never very close, her rejection of his advice separated them further.

Although “fond” of one another, as Paula would later state, they remained fairly distant all their lives.

Before returning to Vienna, Hitler sent Gustl a postcard wishing him the “best” on his Name-day.

It would be the last contact Kubizek would have with Hitler for thirty years. (After a promising beginning Kubizek’s artistic dreams would be shattered by der Große Krieg.

In Sept 1908 the nineteen year old Hitler applied for entrance to Vienna’s Art Academy again. The drawings he submitted on this occasion were not considered adequate.

He was notified, that this time he would not even be permitted to take the test.

The 1908 entry in the Academy’s list read:

This time he asked for a reason and was told that his abilities lay in architecture and it was recommended that he study that field.

This judgment is borne out by his surviving drawings and paintings which show a flare for architectural renderings.

To enter the Architectural branch of the Academy, however, a diploma was necessary.

“What I had defiantly neglected in the high school ” Hitler stated, “now took its bitter revenge.”

Since he lacked a diploma he would have to show that he was “exceptionally gifted” to enter the architecture field.

Hitler was realistic enough to know that he did not possess such abilities and never attempted to register.

As Hitler would show many times in his life, he could not face people when things were going bad.

Although Kubizek had previously offered Hitler financial help, Hitler, as with the food packages, was too proud to accept, and decided to end their relationship.

Because of his failure to gain admittance to the Academy for the second time, he no doubt felt ashamed to face Kubizek, or anyone else.

Around the same time, Hitler also quit writing Hagmuller, the boy who used to have his lunch at the Hitler house in Linz, and they also “lost touch.”

On Nov. 18, 1908, with Kubizek expected back in a few days, the dejected Hitler gave notice to his landlady.

Without leaving a forwarding address he moved to a building across from the railway yards.

Blondi

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Blondi (1912 in Berchtesgaden – Put down 29th April 1945 in Berlin ?) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd dog lover, given to him as a gift by his friend Martin Bormann to prevent the future Fuhrer from going blind in flophouse in Vienna.

edit Early times in Vienna

One of Hitler's postcards.

Bormann and Hitler had met in Vienna in the years just before the First World War. The young Bormann (who was only 12 then) spied the down-and-out Hitler peddling cheap pornographic French postcards along the Ringstrasse in Vienna. Hitler was at the time trying to avoid compulsory conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army and had taken to literally 'sleeping around' at every doss house and charity night shelter to stay away from the authorities. Bormann would later relate that when he saw the scruffy, starving Hitler chasing pigeons [1] for food he knew this man needed a dog. So asking his parents (who were elsewhere when this encounter took place) for some pocket money to buy a Junior Kaiser military uniform, Bormann instead purchased an abandoned German Shepherd dog from the local pound (the Das Hunden Konzentrationslager) and presented it to his 'new friend'.

Hitler was at first suspicious at receiving the gift, perhaps wondering if it was a Zionist plot but when the dog run off and caught a big fat pigeon and then deposited it's bloody corpse in Hitler's lap, he was smitten. Bormann told him the dog was called Blondi and that she had come from pure canine breeding stock. Hitler stroked and gazed at his new companion, her strong features and trusting look made Hitler feel like a new man. What is more, now that Blondi was able to provide for both of them a daily avian holocaust, Hitler was able to indulge his thoughts in dreaming of one day becoming a new leader for a new Germanic empire, all the while gnawing on a pigeon behind the bushes with his four legged follower. [2] .

Hitler's food supply in Vienna, 1912.

edit Time of the Movement

As soon as he felt a lot healthier, Hitler and Blondi took a train to Munich. There they were joined by the rebellious Bormann and flat shared in in Munich’s Schellingstraße in Schwabing, close to Osteria Italiana, where W.I. Lenin had written "What Is There To Order Chef?" [3] in 1914. Blondi had heard about this but was not very understanding about the whole point, the answer seemed clear given the fact that the Tortellini al Forno and especially the fish there was and is excellent. [4] .

In that same year Hitler decided to take part in the First World War. Unwilling to fight for Austria, he joined the German Army and saw action against the British and the French in the trenches. Blondi had to stay behind in Vienna with Bormann but Hitler wrote to her everyday when he could, though he disguised his affections for Blondi from his colleagues by claiming she was big boned peasant girl from Augsburg. When they asked why she never wrote back to him, Hitler claimed Blondi was too shy.

When the war ended and Hitler lost the only job he was to ever have, he returned to Munich. Blondi was now big and strong and Hitler's love letters decorated her kennel on the balcony with Hitler and Bormann sharing a lebensraum sized bed inside for economy reasons. Blondi would lovingly lick dry their proto-Nazi brown shirts and shorts but the monotony of life in Munich got to Blondi. She had been faithful to Hitler during the long war years, never once heading off to the park to mix with the mongrels and strays she felt strongly attracted too. Blondi's dream was to go to Hollywood to meet Rin Tin Tin. This was not so far fetched, Blondi had once befriended Rin Tin Tin before had become famous and shared dog food together before he left Germany for America. Now that Rin Tin Tin had made it, he sent telegrams to Blondi telling her to get her bitch ass to Los Angeles.

Hitler was devastated when Blondi left him. He blamed Bormann and then the Jews and then both together. It was perhaps this crisis that led to Hitler joining the hitherto obscure German Toothbrush Mustache Trimming and Beer Cellar Drinking club which would soon be better known as Nazi party. So whilst Blondi pursued her dream like a greyhound after a stuffed hare, Hitler was embarking on a very active political career. The couple would not see each other for the next 10 years.

edit Diana Mitford Crisis

Blondi came back into Hitler's life when she read about his attempted Munich Putsch Party in 1929 (news travelled slow then, especially for dogs). Where as everyone else wanted to get away from the 'mad eyed Austrian', Blondi was once again at his side, acting again like a dog in her fantastic disguise. She had to share him for awhile with Gelli 'Jelly' Raubel who was Hitler's niece but Blondi arranged to have her rival killed and now had Adolf to herself. Raubel would be no further trouble.

In the 1930s , her beloved Adolf strayed again and got himself mixed up with dancing troop of English aristocrats known as The Aristocratic Mitford Sisters. Their disgusting cabaret act (the origins of the Aristocrat joke by the way) got Hitler very excited and he spurned Blondi's charms for the Mitfords, especially Unity and Diana Mitford (and their stage prop, a phallic shaped table lamp).

Diana the lispstick thief.

Blondi was quite angry about this - she already had to cope with the likes of Eva Braun and didn't want to have a Brit brat with a non Bavarian brewery background using up her organic body shop non tested lipstick as well. It has been said by uncontested sources that either Milford or Blondi got rabies after a biting incident during the 1936 Olympic Games which ended this particular menagerie a trios.

edit Establishment of the Regime

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 Blondi crouching by the side of the Fuhrer and convinced him to introduce the Third Reich’s-Tier-Schutz-Gesetz (goosestep: AAAAAAChtung Empire-Animal-Protection-Law-Law) and a ban on animal testing 1933. Hitler agreed and said he would instead test all new medicines on those diagnosed as mentally ill and political opponents inside the concentration camps. However, when Hitler also tried to make Germany vegetarian his Nazi colleagues persuaded him this would give Fascism an image problem. So he dropped the idea , much to Blondi's distress.

edit Blondi's Lack of Ambition

In Hitler's executive order number 1154, Latvia was to have been handed over to the Nazi Dog's Trust for future Third Reich supporting puppies. Blondi was assigned to be HundFuhrer of this new utopia but she wanted to stay with Adolf and refused to go for a walk to 'view her new domain'. Surrounded as he was by people who wanted their own slices of the new Nazi empire, Hitler praised her for true devotion. It was surely only time by the German leader would make Blondi happy and finally marry her.

edit Wartime

Reich Interior Minister Franz 'Flickr' Frick introducing the Animal Protection Law in November 1933

Blondis willing telepuppets, on the extreme right see one of the most early photos of what is called nowadays Ingrid Newkirk

By all accounts, Hitler was very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bedroom - an affection not shared by Hitler’s other mistress Eva Braun. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move to Fuhrer bunker facilities in January 1945 and gave birth to a litter of Tellytubbies in April 1945. However Hitler ordered them all to be shot to stop rumours that they were inferior cross breeds, though evidently he wasn't successful.

By the end of April 1945, Hitler felt he had been abandoned by everyone. Blondi persuaded him to expel Himmler and Goering from the Nazi party for inhumane treatment of animals . Hitler agreed and in his Political Testament he compiled a shit list of blame which included the man who used to stop him killing pigeons in Vienna.

But Hitler had one final cruel joke to play on Blondi. He decided that he would marry Eva Braun and not her, despite all the long years Blondi had devoted to the Nazi leader. She felt upset and whined and barked as Hitler and Eva Braun married each other on 29th April 1945. Hitler then asked Blondi to see him alone in the showers. It was the last time anyone else saw her on all fours.

edit After 1945

The end of the war saw many Nazi leaders trying to escape. For their various pets, fate various strange hands. Those who weren't put down, fried or shot eventually got jobs with the Americans and the Russians space programs. This only delayed their eventual fates as they all died in the outer regions of space. [5] A few got away including Himmler's pet boa constrictor 'Heydrich' and Goering's white Siamese cat 'Baron von Maustaffel' last seen being carried on to the last U-Boat out of Hamburg.

Blondi was originally high on the list of leading Nazi pets the Allies wanted to talk to (or at least whisper in the ear of). The German survivors of the Berlin bunker claimed Blondi had been killed and her body thrown into a shallow grave by a distraught Hitler. However it was later revealed that the body was really that of her canine double that Hitler had been keeping for many years in secret for just such an emergency. This gave the real Blondi some valuable time to change her life and escape imprisonment or worse. It was during this time she set up PETA, originally a secret organisation to smuggle any surviving pro-fascist pets out of Europe and to freedom and a career in dentistry in 1950s South Carolina.

During this time, Blondi undertook several rounds of radical cosmetic surgery and did something about her wardrobe. Especially a banana diet in Paraguay did her good, even considering the fact that her hairstyle still could be improved. Several alleged sightings of her in Ethiopia have been clarified as covert photographic actions of Leni Riefenstahl. Susan Sontag wrote another essay about it, but its too annoying to quote this as well.

As memories of the war faded, Blondi decided she could risk using her name again but cleverly altered the spelling so she now became Blondie. She also called herself Debbie Harry just in case and launched a successful career of peroxide pop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But Blondie (or Blondi) hadn't forgotten her old Nazi affections. Fans of the group say they can detect many hidden lyrics in the songs celebrating her life with Adolf Hitler. They just don't say which ones [6]

Blondi/Blondie after her facial surgery. No one ever knew she had been a bitch Nazi hound once

Mark David Welsh

Watching the strangest movies – so you don't have to…

Der Hund Von Der Baskerville/The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)

‘Wenn Sie Wert Auf Ihr Leben Legen So Bleiben Sie Dem Moor Fern.’

The family of Baskerville seems cursed by the legend of a spectral hound, which leads the males of the line to early and gruesome deaths. When the latest heir arrives to take up his county seat, his friend calls in Sherlock Holmes to try and solve the mystery.

German filmmakers had already tackled ‘The Hound’ twice before, once in a series of films in 1914 and then again in 1929. This effort was not a success at the box office, which is not really a surprise when viewed today. After all, a Sherlock Holmes film is supposed to be about Sherlock Holmes! Adapting Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novel has been an issue for every filmmaker who has tried his hand at it; once the action moves from London to Dartmoor, Holmes disappears for a long stretch of the narrative, leaving the audience in the perhaps less capable hands of Watson. But, in this version, a lengthy prologue means that the Great Detective appears on screen for less than 25 minutes in the entire film, and that’s a handicap that simply can’t be overcome.

The film as a whole is actually pretty faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novel, although a glamorous housekeeper is added to the staff of Baskerville Hall. The other major change is in the historical sequence, detailing the origin of the family phantom. Here, Sir Hugo is not a despoiler of innocent virgins that he chases across the moor in the dead of night, but a married man. Unfortunately, his wife has been up to no good and he kills both her and her lover during a party at Baskerville Hall, after which he is promptly torn to pieces by her pet dog. It’s not a particularly convincing sequence but then rendering a sufficiently murderous hound has been a problem every film adaptation has had to face.

‘Where is Holmes? He’s supposed to be in this movie!’

Our Sherlock Holmes here is Bruno Guttner, who provides a little dash in the role, but otherwise fails to make much of an impression. The production is also studio bound, and director Carl Lamac fails to build any of the necessary atmosphere to help a plodding screenplay. It was a step down for Fritz Rasp who plays Barrymore here, as he’d played Stapleton in the 1929 version.

There are a couple of points of particular historical interest, though. Whilst out for a stroll across the moor, Watson is stopped by two members of the local police force. Who demand to see his papers. Not a scene present in any other version to the best of my knowledge, and, given the country of origin and the year it was made, a rather chilling addition. It was one of only two films found by the Allies in Adolf Hitler’s bunker in 1945.

Not the worst adaptation of the tale by any means, but certainly one of the dullest.

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It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Some more famous quotes by Adolf Hitler are in the following:

• “Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”
• “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
• “It’s possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.”
• “Life doesn’t forgive weakness.”
• “Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
• “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.”
• “The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn’t necessary”

Here’s a good one with an amazing parallel to a quote by a certain Presidential candidate:

“I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big for themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it ‘truthful hyperbole’. It's an innocent form of exaggeration, and a very effective form of promotion.”

- - “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump

"All propaganda has to be popular

and has to accommodate itself

to the comprehension of the least intelligent

of those whom it seeks to reach."

- - “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler

By Adolf Hitler

When your mother has grown older,

When her dear, faithful eyes

no longer see life as they once did,

When her feet, grown tired,

No longer want to carry her as she walks -

Then lend her your arm in support,

Escort her with happy pleasure.

The hour will come when, weeping, you

Must accompany her on her final walk.

And if she asks you something,

Then give her an answer.

And if she asks again, then speak!

And if she asks yet again, respond to her,

Not impatiently, but with gentle calm.

And if she cannot understand you properly

Adolf Hitler collection, 1912-1946

An addition to the collection consists of three photograph albums prepared for Hermann Goring by Lutz Heck. The albums contain 183 black and white photographs primarily reflecting Goring's interest in hunting as Commissioner of Woods and Forests. The first album, "Saujagd in Springe, 14 Dezember 1934," contains 84 photographs of Goring and others, boar, lodges, antelope, hunting dogs, etc., the second, "Roth 1937," contains 56 photographs of Goring and others in hunting parties, at Konigssee and of dogs, boar, etc., the third, "Rominten 1940," contains 43 photographs of Goring, Werner Molders, Erhard Milch, his daughter Edda, and others, as well as stags, boar and other hunting scenes. Also present are three published books with the ex libris of Adolf Hitler: MEINE KRIEGSERINNERUNGEN 1914-1918 (1919) by Erich Ludendorff, KAMERAD HUND (1934) by Alfred Muhr, and DIE ARMEE DES KONIGREICHS WESTFALEN, 1807-1813 (1935) by Fritz Lunsmann. Read more.

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An addition to the collection consists of three photograph albums prepared for Hermann Goring by Lutz Heck. The albums contain 183 black and white photographs primarily reflecting Goring's interest in hunting as Commissioner of Woods and Forests. The first album, "Saujagd in Springe, 14 Dezember 1934," contains 84 photographs of Goring and others, boar, lodges, antelope, hunting dogs, etc., the second, "Roth 1937," contains 56 photographs of Goring and others in hunting parties, at Konigssee and of dogs, boar, etc., the third, "Rominten 1940," contains 43 photographs of Goring, Werner Molders, Erhard Milch, his daughter Edda, and others, as well as stags, boar and other hunting scenes. Also present are three published books with the ex libris of Adolf Hitler: MEINE KRIEGSERINNERUNGEN 1914-1918 (1919) by Erich Ludendorff, KAMERAD HUND (1934) by Alfred Muhr, and DIE ARMEE DES KONIGREICHS WESTFALEN, 1807-1813 (1935) by Fritz Lunsmann.

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schema:description " Contains letters (1912-1940) to and from Hitler and correspondence files (1915-1945) of various members of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei), including Hitler's adjutants Wilhelm Bruchner and Fritz Wiedemann, as well as Hans Frank, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, the Hohenzollern family, and Rudolf Hess. Original Hitler material consists primarily of birthday wishes, New Year's wishes, and such. Other letters and documents concern Nazi Jewish policy, the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald, military issues, and the Joe Louis/Max Schmeling boxing match (1939). Also present are photographs of Hitler, Hermann Goring, and other officers at the front and in posed portraits, ration stamps, Nazi arm bands, a race identification kit, passports, bonds, military identification cards, and a recording of a speech by Paul von Hindenburg (1932). Copies of Hitler's will, political testament, and papers relating to his marriage to Eva Braun are also included. Many of the letters and documents are accompanied by English translations. " ;

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