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Originally Posted by microbet
There was an OOT thread years ago "ask me about Hitler" or something by a poster who was/is well regarded by many. To me it seemed to veer into hero worship, though that was denied, but I lost it when he claimed that Hitler was literally the most well read person in the history of the world. I was widely scorned for messing up the thread when I told him he was FOS, though finally a few people got my back.
To give Hitler his due (mind you, he gave himself his true due, in the bunker, in May of 1945), he did actually write Mein Kampf, whereas The Art of the Deal was ghostwritten. On the other hand, as George Orwell and many others have pointed out, Mein Kampf is pretty badly written. And the author's original title was 'Four And A Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity And Cowardice,' which sounds like something Mel Brooks might have made up just to poke fun at him, but no, that really was the title he gave it. The somewhat snappier 'My Struggle' was the publisher's idea.
Well-read he wasn't, nah. Full-time lifelong idiot. He did go to the same Gymnasium (high school) in Linz as Ludwig Wittgenstein, and their time there overlapped in 1903-4.
(The oft-reproduced 1901 school photo which is captioned to show 'Wittgenstein' standing close to 'Hitler' is a red herring. The 'Hitler' kid is genuinely and unmistakably Hitler, but the 'Wittgenstein' kid isn't Wittgenstein, who wasn't at the school then.
http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/w...n-austria.html)
But although they were the same age, they weren't in the same grade. Wittgenstein was promoted one year above his age, and Hitler was demoted one year down, so they were two grades apart and probably never interacted. Plus Hitler then got expelled.
And you know who else was expelled from high school? Noted Trump fanboi Milo Yiannopoulos, or Hanrahan as he was originally known. Who, at Minnesota State, on his 'Dangerous ******' campus tour in December of 2016, described a certain BuzzFeed journalist as 'a typical example of a sort of thick-as-pig**** media Jew.' That's who.
http://forward.com/fast-forward/3589...st-media-jews/
Last edited by 57 On Red; 02-11-2017 at 02:36 PM.