Thursday, September 3, 2009

Hitler and Lenin together, before Hitler was Hitler and Lenin was Lenin; but is it true, or a get-rich-quick scheme?

From the Corner at National Review:

"Apparently there may be a drawing of Adolf Hitler playing chess with Lenin! Really. Skepticism is still probably called for. But jeepers. If true, if ever there were a better moment when God should have lobbed a lightning bolt or a meteor earthward, I can't think of it. From the Telegraph:

Pictured: Hitler playing chess with Lenin
A picture of a young Adolf Hitler apparently playing chess against Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago has come to light.

The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler's art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators.

Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the game belonged to a prominent Jewish family."

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