Art: Pre-War Struggler

"A. Hitler" read the signature on five competent water colors on exhibition last week in Munich. No namesake, the artist was in fact the same half-starved Austrian man-of-all-work who rose to be Germany's Realmleader.

Political calumny has long since obscured the moderate fact of Adolf Hitler's small talents as a young man. While his parents were still living in little Leonding not far from the Austro-German border, Adolf and his flaxen-haired mother decided he would be a painter or an architect. First obstacle was his besotted, burly...

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