Hitler's Art Obsession

Hitler's Art Obsession

Hitler’s Art Obsession during WWII

I initially was going to write about weapons of war in art for my assignment.   I decided that it was going to be difficult to relate the actual art to a research paper.   I’m taking an American History class this semester as well and we are getting ready to go over World War II.   I’ve always been interested in the history of World War II because my grandfather enlisted in the Air Force after his brother was shot down in Italy.   He flew a cargo plane over what they called “The Hump” which was delivering supplies from India to China.  
Hitler’s obsession with art began when we was just a schoolboy.   He wrote in Mein Kampf that we wanted to be a painter when he grew up.   Hitler’s father was a government official just like the professors at the General Painting School of the Academy of Art of Vienna.   He applied in the fall of 1907, but he was denied entrance into the art school.   Hitler did pass his preliminary examination.   He had to submit several examples of art.   However, Hitler failed the second part of the application because his work because his drawings had too few heads.
Hitler tried again to follow his dream of becoming an artist.   In the fall of 1908, he applied again to gain admission to the school.   However, he was asked not to even submit his drawings.   He was told be the head of the school that his work showed more promise for architectural work than as a painter.   Hitler was not to be discouraged on his dream.   He read and followed the work of an anti-Semitic pamphleteer who covered his journals with swastikas.   Hitler while hating the Jews, managed to sell some of his paintings on postcards along with   small pictures of Vienna’s city monuments and landmarks using watercolors and oils to a Hungarian Jew, whom in turn sold them to other Jews living in Vienna.   Hitler would also produce etchings, posters, and illustrations used for advertising at the time.
As Hitler grew older, he turned to...