Hitler drawing art
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Napoleon – Hitler, the improbable comparison
Author(s) : LENTZ Thierry
Thierry Lentz, in a paper originally presented at the 2011 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, takes a look at a particular branch of historiography that grew out of the comparative biography trend of the 1980s: the anachronistic comparison of Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler.
Napoleon – Hitler, the improbable comparison
A purely ideological interpretation of history can impel historians to form erroneous conclusions on the nature of regimes and historical fact.
The Napoleonic episode offers a case study.
For a long time, historians were unable or unwilling to avoid simplification. Two sides – those “against” and those “for” Napoleon – clashed on a sterile battlefield where ideological monocausality defined the wars fought by the various European powers.
It is thus that one school of history, in a rather authoritarian step, came to place the First Empire in the category of “military dictatorship” with the aim of enhancing the Revolution&#
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Hitler Living in Liverpool
Hitler's brother Alois living in Liverpool
The story of Hitler Living in Liverpool begins with his half-brother called Alois.
Alois had a bad reputation and spent many years in prison for theft. He left prison in 1909 and moved to Ireland. Here he met his future wife Bridget Dowling.
Alois and Bridget moved from Ireland to Liverpool. They moved to 102 Upper Stanhope Street in Toxteth.
Alois worked in Liverpool as a waiter. German waiters were common in Britain at this time. So much so that during World War One, British soldiers shouted “Waiter” over the trenches at Germans.
In the 1911 Census, Alois was listed as Anton Hitler. There is also a son listed (written as ‘sohn’ on the census). Perhaps this is Alois' German spelling of Son? The census also shows he worked at the Jewish-owned Lyons Café in Toxteth.
It is unknown if Alois shared the same chilling views of Jewish people that his half-brother Adolf had.
Adolf Hitler first arrived in Liverpool in November 1912. When Alois invited some of his family from Austria over to visit him in Liverp
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
After seizing power in Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis presented a new ideology of art which was mostly based on conservative values and Hitler’s own failed artistic aspirations. All avant-garde was deemed ‘degenerate’ and it was either destroyed or displayed in mock exhibitions. Read on to learn more about artistic protest, compliance, fraud, and the art in the Third Reich.
Art in the Third Reich: Hitler’s Failed Artistic Career
Before entering politics, Adolf Hitler aspired to become a professional artist but was rejected by the Vienna Art Academy twice. Although his paintings were technically good, they lacked originality, dynamism, and soul. As noted by his teachers, he focused on architectural details and geometric forms but was clearly indifferent to painting people. He was a staunch opponent of everything non-figurative and non-realistic, believing art should be visually pleasing, didactic, and rely on the Neoclassical standards of beauty and harmony.
Hitler’s own artistic preferences became the basis for t
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