Born in Linz, Austria, on April 20, 1889, to a customs inspector and a woman named Alois, young Dolfi expressed an interest in art at an early age, but when he tried to enter the University of Art in Vienna, he was rejected for "lack of talent and ability." Discouraged by this failure, he joined the German army in the Great War, earning the Iron Cross for acts of bravery. However, a mustard gas bomb landed him in a hospital, blinded temporarily. When he learned that Germany had surrendered in the fall of 1918, he was devastated. He vowed revenge.....:mad:

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Is this guy still alive? By the way, did I mention today is my Unbirthday.

He's talking about Adolf Hitler.

Originally posted by webuster
Is this guy still alive? By the way, did I mention today is my Unbirthday.

He was born in 1889 so I doubt he's still with us.

Like Rockapella said - this thread is about Adolf Hitler.

:mad: :mad: :mad: The SOB!!!

Isn't this odd...Hitler gets turned down for art school, so he decides to try and take over the world. Castro doesn't make it in pro baseball in the US and he takes over Cuba. Maybe if these guys hadn't been immediately told they suck...

Originally posted by dawsongirl
Isn't this odd...Hitler gets turned down for art school, so he decides to try and take over the world. Castro doesn't make it in pro baseball in the US and he takes over Cuba. Maybe if these guys hadn't been immediately told they suck...


Yeah, the trend of dreams bashed followed by seeking revenge is scary...









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Originally posted by dawsongirl
Isn't this odd...Hitler gets turned down for art school, so he decides to try and take over the world.
hahahahahaha lmao. i should do that sometime.

hitler tried to ban reading and he came up w/ the idea of VW's so he was cool, not that he wasnt a psycho that needed anger management

People have been crushing my dreams for years.
I wonder which country I should take-over first.........?

I really thought Schickelgruber was a real surname, besides their are 100's of Austrians fitting that description, God- everyday I start sounding more like Rose in the Golden Girls in these posts.

Originally posted by ~°Sarah°~

hahahahahaha lmao. i should do that sometime.

hitler tried to ban reading and he came up w/ the idea of VW's so he was cool, not that he wasnt a psycho that needed anger management

I find it so so scary that you think anything about Hitler was cool.

Originally posted by Nanny Fine


I find it so so scary that you think anything about Hitler was cool.

Ditto.

Originally posted by ~°Sarah°~

hahahahahaha lmao. i should do that sometime.

hitler tried to ban reading and he came up w/ the idea of VW's so he was cool, not that he wasnt a psycho that needed anger management

1. Hitler did NOT ban reading. He banned all Jewish authors and any who believed in peace, freedom, and individuality.

2. Volkswagen is German for "the people's car." As much as we enjoy these cars today, it does NOT make a murderer of over 6 million Jews and "non-Aryans" cool.

3. He was psychotic in many ways, and he acted angry in his speeches, but it was all an act to hide the fact he was terribly insecure. However he did it, he was very persuasive. He was not simply a lunatic, in many ways he was very controlled and controlling, and tapped into many prejudices shared by many Germans and other Europeans about Jews and others.

Hitler planted concentration camps all over my homeland as well as Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and others. He killed over 6 million Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals just because he wanted a pure Arian race. The man is not cool. Not even close.

Originally posted by Original Prankster
The man is not cool. Not even close.

Agreed. I can't believe anyone would say something like that!

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as crazy as he was he still had the dictators greatest fear; a book. dictators often ban books by intelligent people becasue those kinds of things will inspire and well inspiration agianst a dictator is a bad thing for the dictator

we were just learning about him in school. It truly amazes me how the German people wre so vernable (sp?) and convinced by his words. he must ahve been one powerful speaker. Hitlr was a very intelligant man, it's too abd he didn't use it for the good. The concentration camps were truly horrific and I can't imagine what people who were sent there went through, but a lot of todays medical advancements were discovered there. Hitler used humans as gini pigs and sent them to these camps to test his scientific ideas. Like "if i cut his arm off, and replace it with another will it thre tissues grow abck and attach?"-So that is how our medical sceince improved. I guess if you want to be optomistic about the whole thing that could be your optomism. I know that is sick,and it is a terrible thing that our newfounded technolgy came about that way,and I truly wish it could have been discovred another way, but it wasn't. Now don't misquote my words or anything. I am NOT saying Hitler was a good man at all. he wasn't. I am just saying he was very smart,and founded a lot of sceitnific advancements through a horrible way.
Why couldn't he have just became a leader, who improved Germany's economy and found his ideas by testing mice and stuff like normal scientists.

Originally posted by ~°Sarah°~
hitler tried to ban reading and he came up w/ the idea of VW's so he was cool, not that he wasnt a psycho that needed anger management
VW's are among my least-favorite cars (especially the ones from the '70s and earlier). Ugly ( a complete opposite from the long, sleek U.S. cars of the time); slow, low-torque engines (a '60s VW had about 60 horsepower, compared to an average of about 300 hp. for a typical U.S. car); a joke of a heater; no A/C available, dangerous (because of their small size and light weight- around 2,200 lbs). You also sure had to be careful when driving on highways when high winds are blowing- those winds could push a tiny VW across several lanes- scary! Overall, a boring car- give me a '69 Dodge Charger R/T (440-cu.-in. engine) anytime over that other "thing." ;)

Originally posted by ~Tropical Punch 19~
we were just learning about him in school. It truly amazes me how the German people wre so vernable (sp?) and convinced by his words. he must ahve been one powerful speaker. Hitlr was a very intelligant man, it's too abd he didn't use it for the good. The concentration camps were truly horrific and I can't imagine what people who were sent there went through, but a lot of todays medical advancements were discovered there. Hitler used humans as gini pigs and sent them to these camps to test his scientific ideas. Like "if i cut his arm off, and replace it with another will it thre tissues grow abck and attach?"-So that is how our medical sceince improved. I guess if you want to be optomistic about the whole thing that could be your optomism. I know that is sick,and it is a terrible thing that our newfounded technolgy came about that way,and I truly wish it could have been discovred another way, but it wasn't. Now don't misquote my words or anything. I am NOT saying Hitler was a good man at all. he wasn't. I am just saying he was very smart,and founded a lot of sceitnific advancements through a horrible way.
Why couldn't he have just became a leader, who improved Germany's economy and found his ideas by testing mice and stuff like normal scientists.

Uhhhh....This is the first time I heard about this...:eek:

Anyone care to comment?

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica


Uhhhh....This is the first time I heard about this...:eek:

Anyone care to comment? well, don't take what i said 100% because this is what i heard from my history teacher,a dn some syuff she says i really don't know I can trust. Don't get mad at me for saying that though.

Originally posted by ~Tropical Punch 19~
well, don't take what i said 100% because this is what i heard from my history teacher,a dn some syuff she says i really don't know I can trust. Don't get mad at me for saying that though.

I'm not mad, it's just this is the first time I've ever heard of this. I've always understood the whole purpose of the medical experiments performed on humans in the concentration camps as having no scientific value or merits whatsoever than for the sake of cruelty. But I SUPPOSE that in some weird, far-fetched way there were some benefits...I'd just have to look that up.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
Isn't this odd...Hitler gets turned down for art school, so he decides to try and take over the world. Castro doesn't make it in pro baseball in the US and he takes over Cuba. Maybe if these guys hadn't been immediately told they suck...
Let's not forget that Saddam Hussein was once an amateur porno star...

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica


I'm not mad, it's just this is the first time I've ever heard of this. I've always understood the whole purpose of the medical experiments performed on humans in the concentration camps as having no scientific value or merits whatsoever than for the sake of cruelty. But I SUPPOSE that in some weird, far-fetched way there were some benefits...I'd just have to look that up.
Actually, I've heard a lot of mention from this and supposedly indeed through the horrific human experiments the Nazi scientists performed, there was supposedly (and note I say supposedly) a great deal learned about medical science.

As for Sarah's comments, it is quite offensive however I am going to give her the benefit of a doubt and assume she made a statement the wrong way and really didn't mean "Hitler was cool". Hopefully, she'll clarify this statement because as most of us sane people know, Hitler was definitely not cool. He was a monster who deserves nothing short of a dive into the bowels of Hell.

I heard about the experiments, too, not that long ago in school. He did make some advances in the field of science and medicine through his sick little experiments. Sad, but true.

Originally posted by Nanny Fine


I find it so so scary that you think anything about Hitler was cool.

I know....

Originally posted by Fleet

VW's are among my least-favorite cars (especially the ones from the '70s and earlier). a joke of a heater;

:lol: My folks tell me all the time their tales of having to scrape the inside of the windows while they were driving in the winter.

Originally posted by Fran Fan

Let's not forget that Saddam Hussein was once an amateur porno star...

:eek: Eww....

Basically, Hitler wanted revenge against the countries that he felt brought Germany down in the war, but specifically he felt for some
reason, the Jews were responsible for it. (He was born in Austria, but the ethnicity is mostly German.) So in 1923 he organized what was known as the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the government of Bavaria, meant to intimidate the local leaders into accepting his thugs as leaders. It was a failure,and he was sent to prison for several years, but was released in a short period of time. During this time, he wrote his manifesto known as Mein Kamp ("My Struggle"). He felt at this time that the German masses were ready. During the Weimar Republic in the '20's, the greatest level of inflation in history had devastated Germany, where it would take huge amounts of worthless deutschmarks to buy a single egg. Crime and perversion ran rampant, and Hitler felt it was time for law and order to come once again to Germany...He achieved this by having his thugs kill political opponents.

Originally posted by Mossopp
People have been crushing my dreams for years.
I wonder which country I should take-over first.........?
:)No girl, you're too big for that!

Originally posted by ~Tropical Punch 19~
we were just learning about him in school. It truly amazes me how the German people wre so vernable (sp?) and convinced by his words. he must ahve been one powerful speaker. Hitlr was a very intelligant man, it's too abd he didn't use it for the good. The concentration camps were truly horrific and I can't imagine what people who were sent there went through, but a lot of todays medical advancements were discovered there. Hitler used humans as gini pigs and sent them to these camps to test his scientific ideas. Like "if i cut his arm off, and replace it with another will it thre tissues grow abck and attach?"-So that is how our medical sceince improved. I guess if you want to be optomistic about the whole thing that could be your optomism. I know that is sick,and it is a terrible thing that our newfounded technolgy came about that way,and I truly wish it could have been discovred another way, but it wasn't. Now don't misquote my words or anything. I am NOT saying Hitler was a good man at all. he wasn't. I am just saying he was very smart,and founded a lot of sceitnific advancements through a horrible way.
Why couldn't he have just became a leader, who improved Germany's economy and found his ideas by testing mice and stuff like normal scientists.

Here is another way to find optomism from that war: A lot of the best of humanity emerged in the face of evil. Many people risked their lives to save the lives of Jews in and out of Concentration camps. I encourage you to looking into the war and concentration camps on the internet. It was a terrible time in history, but the good in humanity casts a bright light across the tragedy.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
:lol: My folks tell me all the time their tales of having to scrape the inside of the windows while they were driving in the winter.
I haven't heard that one! Really a modern car, weren't they! I do remember a neighbor used to put bricks inside his late '60s VW Bus because there was a danger of it falling over in high winds!