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Hitler and architecture

Hitler in his youth wanted to be an architect or at least be involved in the arts but was turned down by the many art schools around Germany. Because he was rejected he became very bitter about the whole thing, especially with the Jews who ran those schools. He joined World War I and rose in rank to corporal (which is like the 2nd lowest rank in the army) and after the war ended he got involved with politics eventually using architecture, the visual arts, pop-photography and the like as instruments to promote Nazi propaganda.

There were also many posters and magazine covers with illustrations of shirtless, well-built and blonde men doing work: shirtless men farming, shirtless men repairing cars, shirtless men mining or building, etc. All like a very pumped up version of men's health magazines today. This was his idea of a healthy German worker.

Perhaps, if one of the many architecture schools at that time gave him a place, the world would turn out to be a very different place. =)