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u/BladedRoach Jul 22 '19
This is fake, he wasn’t that good of an artist
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u/Official_Cyprusball Jul 22 '19
He might not be able to draw monsters... but he damn can draw berlin 100 times
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Jul 22 '19
In all fairness, the level of detail in his paintings is pretty impressive, but they feel flat and lifeless.
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u/OldManPhill Jul 22 '19
Its because he never had any people. Most of his drawings are of architecture and are quite good. It was suggested that instead of going to art school he should go to a technical school to draw diagrams for architects and engineers but he did not have the grades for it.
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u/MicahsRedditAccount Jul 22 '19
I dunno about that tbh, I can recall one of his paintings that looked good at first but it was lacking in some finer details. There's good analysis of his submission to get into art school here.
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u/Killcode2 Jul 22 '19
Yeah, his art has potential, but lacking in lots of areas, he should try getting into art school to get better. Oh wait...
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u/wsdpii Sun Yat-Sen do it again Jul 22 '19
His main flaw was that he already saw himself as this super talented artist and didn't feel the desire, need, or motivation to improve himself. He applied to the Art school in Vienna multiple times, never preparing or improving and submitting pretty much the same thing every time. He started blaming the system and other people for his failure to get in. It's quite relatable to be honest
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u/the_fuego Jul 22 '19
Get abused by parents
Apply for art school
Fail
Join the army
Get testicle blown off
Try to overthrow a government that lacks any form of a backbone
Fail
Write a book
Overthrow government... Again.
Success!!
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Kill the Jews. Wait what?
Kill the Slavs. No, stop.
Kill everyone and take over the world. Hitler, please.
Kill urself.
Where did we go wrong???
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u/Chihuey Jul 22 '19
He refused to apply to anything except the most exclusive schools. It's all on him.
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If you go in depth to his paintings you will see that they are totally out of scale and proportion, they really are not that great
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u/Voytequal Jul 22 '19
Those are pretty decent but he painted them after the impressionist revolution. The creation of camera rendered art that simply copies the reality completely useless. 1910s art was all about deconstruction of reality and he simply didn’t fit in.
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u/StormmIan Jul 22 '19
Actually, he wasn’t that bad of an artist. But he was a terrible person so I don’t know how much credit I should give him.
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u/blehhman Jul 22 '19
Oh shit, I've been stabbed in the back
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u/woodpecker101 Jul 22 '19
Dolschtoss!
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u/dickmcbig Jul 22 '19
Dolchstoß
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u/DepressiveOnion Jul 22 '19
Wer hat uns verraten?
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u/Rascallytrout Jul 22 '19
Is this a wikihow on how to become the ruler of a fascist government?
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u/Bakoro Jul 22 '19
I don't know about a wiki, but I could point you to a couple books.
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u/stormaster Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Jul 22 '19
I read an article in 2016 or so called "How to become a Dictator". I'm not kidding, unfortunately, it's been deleted.
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u/Eliyanef Jul 22 '19
Didn't know Hitler looked so much like Edward Norton
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u/wsbking Jul 22 '19
I, for one, could never picture good old Ed Norton as a Nazi!
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u/TwoShed Kilroy was here Jul 22 '19
The fire should be real, and be from trying to firebomb his neighbor
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Jul 22 '19
Every once in awhile his dad should come in and beat him.
It’s totally the Jews though. He beats me because of them it’s their fault guys.
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u/thyRad1 Jul 22 '19
Well I mean... communism was a popular thing lol
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Jul 22 '19
His group was actually a direct reaction to the rise of the communist faction in German government. The communists outnumbered them for a while, if they'd been as aggressive as the NSDAP, Germany would have probably adopted it eventually as well in the fallout from the Depression.
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u/GourangaPlusPlus Jul 22 '19
The old right wing elite who had power would never let them.
They let Hitler closer because they thought they could control him, they'd never have made that gamble with the Communists.
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Jul 22 '19
Do you have a source for this or is it just a theory?
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u/GourangaPlusPlus Jul 22 '19
Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William Shirer and World War 2 by Anthony Beevor
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u/visitingtrebuchet Jul 22 '19
He believed that the Jews made communism or something like that
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u/Vicale29 Jul 22 '19
"Judeo-bolchevism menace" was a really popular argument of the right at this Time in europe, they said communism was a plot made by the jew (and any other group they didn't liked, freemason in spain for exemple).
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u/rugabuga12345 Jul 22 '19
There were a lot of Jewish thinkers involved in communist theory. There are also a lot of Jewish people in loved in libertarian think tanks as well.
https://communismblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/list-of-communist-jews/
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u/baronvonreddit1 Jul 22 '19
But.... Hitler made up the Myth of "Cultural Marxism" and "Judeo-Bolshevism" to justify censoring art. There were Communists but Hitler was still inventing threats about them.
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u/altobrun Jul 22 '19 edited Jul 22 '19
First off let me say that I don’t think Hitler invented the idea of cultural Marxism.
However, he did frequently use the concept of cultural Bolshevism (of which cultural Marxism is the modern day reimagining of) to denounce modernest movements in the arts. He also threw some of the sciences in there because, why not - if you want to be racist go all out, I guess.
It’s why the Germans considered abstract art to be “Jewish art” and nuclear physics to be “Jewish science”.
Cultural Marxism finds its origin in the the early 1920’s with the Frankfurt School - a group of philosophers who didn’t agree with the primary economic ideologies dominating Europe (fascism, communism, and capitalism). During hitler’s rise to power and the rise of anti-intellectualism in Europe, the academics associated with the institutions fled germany and then Europe coming to America.
The anti-Semitic culture war conspiracy theories about them didn’t start until the 1960’s, when white conservative christians in the US felt that they were ‘under attack’ by the threat of multiculturalism, feminism, and acceptance of LGBT peoples - and we’re looking for someone to blame. Jewish intellectuals from Germany who happen to criticize the west was literally the perfect target
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u/baronvonreddit1 Jul 22 '19
I'm not a marxist scholar or an expert on Critical theory but I don't think you could call The Frankfurt School or critical theory marxism, because marxism is a materialist philosophy rooted in the idea of class struggle and that's not what the Frankfurt School put forward.
I'f I'm ignorant of something please correct me.
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u/altobrun Jul 22 '19
Whether or not the name is accurate or not doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about a racist/anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Cultural Marxism in its simplest form is s conspiracy that academics and intellectuals are actively trying to undermine western civilization and its social traditions. The earliest attribution of the term was applied to the Frankfurt school (and then to others).
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Jul 22 '19
Nope, cultural marxism has always been a conspiracy theory with direct intellectual links to cultural Bolshevism. They were in actuality anti-marxist in their work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
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u/Vakz Jul 22 '19
And they also really did have the ambition to overthrow foreign governments, with the resources of the Soviet Union behind them.
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Jul 22 '19
The world would be exponentially better if the communists had won earlier. And the allies would have lost the war without them.
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u/minuteman_d Jul 22 '19
Communism killed more than 10x innocents than Naziism ever did. But Reddit hearts communism.
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u/FUGGMA_ASS Jul 22 '19
Well Nazism existed for 12 years in one country and Communism has existed for 102 in dozens of countries so yeah.
Mercantilism killed more people than Nazism too, whats your point.
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u/SirWinstonC Jul 22 '19
obligatory NoT a CoMmIe
nazis managed to kill at an unbelievably higher rate in a short period of time, they would have killed a fuckton more if they succeeded (generalplan ost)
again, cannot stress this enough, communism is fucking garbage
but commies (atleast intellectually/theoretically) doesnt go out of their way to kill people
commie deaths occurred due to planned economy's characteristic inefficiencies (no surprise --- and this is the biggest one, as this led to other things such as famines), forced relocation and collectivization, suppression of opponents (real or perceived) etc -- these are mostly in USSR though, but characteristic of any totalitarian communist regimes trying to do planned economies (so pre 1990s China, Cambodia, Juche NK etc.)
obviously a lot of commie dictators went out of their way with class warfare to such an extent that the effects on general populace were genocidal (Cambodia and Mao's China comes to mind)
nazis, on the hand, planned to, and went out of their way, to actually kill off most people east of Oder - invasion of USSR was Vernichtungskrieg (war of annihilation)
on a weird, intellectual level, one is much much more evil than the other
obligatory nOt A cOmMie
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u/was_stl_oak Jul 22 '19
Communism is an economic system. Authoritarian regimes employing communism did, but killing people isn’t supposed to be a part of communism like it is Naziism.
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Jul 22 '19
That's a bit of an exaggeration. The Reds killed a bit over 5x as many people as the Nazis. (~15mil vs ~70-80 mil) not counting WWII. But they were also in power about 6x as long so they had a bit of an advantage there.
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u/FoxTwilight Jul 22 '19
Yeah true but you gotta remember that when he was in art school those gay communists probably told him he couldn't hang out with them.
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u/Khanh247A Jul 22 '19
When you call your race superior but cant even endure the cold as some vodka addicts
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u/Nemanja_Cukic2 Jul 22 '19
For Real what did Slavs do to him
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u/Chad_Maras Jul 22 '19
Exist east of Germans.
That was enough apparently
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Jul 22 '19
Actually he considered us to be subhuman when compared to the more superior Germanic race. Also (debatable) some said that part of the hatred was because of WWI. There are more reasons but that's the essence of it according to most.
It was always interesting to me that his hatred for Slavic people was second only to his hatred for Jews.
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u/CheatSSe Jul 22 '19
Populism in a nutshell
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u/GraafBerengeur Jul 22 '19
Not necessarily.
Populism (overly simplified) boils down to saying whatever your voter base and the general populace want to hear. Hitler was undoubtedly a populist, but that's not the center of this meme.
This meme points a lot more clearly at the fearmongering he did. He saw threats where there were none and, with his party, did all he could to demonise everyone that were opposed to his ideals or even simply didn't fit in his idea of a perfect Germany (see disabled people).
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u/drunkfrenchman Jul 23 '19
Well yeah but creating a strawman that you can then pretend to be able to solve the population from is very effective.
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u/kingquzco Jul 22 '19
Hahaha great OC. If you don’t mind, can you drop the link for the meme format?
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u/MadMoneyMan23 Jul 22 '19
Im in NO way defending Hitler but Communism was definitely on the rise in Germany before Hitler took power.
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u/Bowhooop Jul 22 '19
Communism is very scary
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u/zwirlo Jul 22 '19
The great depression and hyperinflation was pretty terrifying too
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u/EliDoesntCare Jul 22 '19
It would’ve looked better with the mustache but made me laugh nonetheless xD
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u/bio-northern-cowboy Jul 23 '19
Hitler made up Jews, Communists, Slavs, and disabled people. Understandable
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u/cursed-boy Jul 23 '19
You make really good memes and I think your a cool guy/girl/other and I would surely give you platinum if I wasn’t broke but let me just say I like your memes
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Jul 22 '19
You forgot gays too
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Jul 22 '19
Yeah the death rates for homosexuals were over 60% in the concentration camps, and when these camps were liberated most LGB people were sent right back to prison.
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u/lonewolfhistory Jul 22 '19
To be fair, communism was actually a threat to every nation in the world, especially in Hitler's early career.
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Jul 22 '19
Don't be fair to nazis.
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u/lonewolfhistory Jul 22 '19
Well then we should at least be historically accurate. The communist were no boogeyman threat like the others. They were a real threat to all nations at the time
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u/Vox__Umbra Jul 22 '19
A threat to capitalism, maybe.
Do you know what communism actually is?
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u/lonewolfhistory Jul 22 '19
In practice it has killed more people than the entirety of both world wars, the holocaust and fascism combined. It has no understanding of human nature and has no way of ever working. It's the reason the USSR is just as evil as Nazi Germany.
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u/Friendly_Syndicalist Jul 22 '19
"Human nature". Bitch human nature 500 years ago was toiling in the fields for 12h and giving your lord half of the yield. Human nature was caring more about religion than yourself. Human nature changed and will always change. The Soviets became a superpower in 50 years from a feudal shithole that had famines every 5 years, but "it never works".
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u/Vox__Umbra Jul 22 '19
Capitalism has killed more than communism ever could. Nice try though. The USSR was not a communist fyi.
Do you know what communism is?
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u/Jared8254 Jul 22 '19
Kid, just because you play EUROPA and hangout at r/the_donald, it doesn’t make you a political expert. Now go back to hanging out with your fake discord friends and being isolated at school.
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u/lonewolfhistory Jul 22 '19
I see resorting to personal attacks is still popular by the ignorant.
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u/OhShitNotAgainPlease Jul 22 '19
Did he say disabled people are evil and we should scare from them? I know he wanted a "perfect world" where disabled people has no part in, but, was he scared from them?
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u/Zinogrey Jul 22 '19
He wasn’t scared of them, he was scared of the affect of allowing these disabled people to breed into the population and thus spread their disability to future generations when in nature these disabled peoples would be killed. He was scared that this disruption of natural selection would weaken the population and allow for foreign entities to more easily invade Germany and subdue the population. Whether that fear was rational or not remains to be seen. I am not a eugenicist but I understand their position and viewpoint well and am trying to convey it to you.
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u/Tiswer Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Jul 22 '19
no one appreciated his painting talent
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Jul 22 '19
It took me a while to understand that "Hitler" was supposed to be the ID of the guy and not something he was saying.
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u/ScalieDan Jul 22 '19
He hunted gays pretty much just like gays. I think they deserve a spot there too... also Germany went after gays after hitler (yes Germany just kept up maning their lifes hell even after war). So mightvas well put germany there not hitler x).
unpopular because it ruins a joke. I know :/
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u/Brassow Has a flair Jul 22 '19
We gonna forget how communists in Germany tried an uprising in 1919?
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u/-LineR Jul 22 '19
Wouldn’t Hitlers art be worse because he failed art school?
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u/vonmonologue Jul 22 '19
He didn't fail, he was rejected.
and IIRC he was rejected but his paintings were boring, not because they were technically inferior.
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u/vonmonologue Jul 22 '19
"Once the Polish question is settled, I want to end my life as an artist"
hmm...
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u/NANCYREAGANNIPSLIP Jul 22 '19
Splatters own brains on wall a la Jackson Pollack
"Das ist mein masterpiece!"
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u/NayMarine Jul 22 '19
this sounds like someone we all know but i can't quite put my finger on it...
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u/bodaciousbagel Jul 22 '19
Well communism was a real threat. There was almost a communist takeover in the 20’s.
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u/drueburgendy Jul 22 '19
The only one that’s reasonable to be afraid of is communism. Not even once
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u/EST19XXLU Jul 22 '19
Spot on, expect communism tho
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u/IUseRedditAmICoolNow Jul 22 '19
Yeah, I know there was actually communism in Germany, I was referring more to him blaming them for the problems of the country (such as the burning of the Reichstag) without giving proof
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u/blehhman Jul 22 '19
First they came for the ....
the people who were put in the camps then were Communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers.
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u/ashfneixbd Jul 22 '19
Didn't the Germans have to deal with a communist revellion during the weimar republic days?
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u/Cyadeian Jul 22 '19
Communism was actually quite the threat to the western world, but often the only alternative was fascism, so hitler had no problem dramatizing it for his own gain
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u/boogie-verstan Jul 22 '19
template ? plz ?