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A smiling Adolf Hitler caught in the photograph of a large crowd 112 years ago today...

Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:16 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Baltimore, MD
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:16 pm
On August 2, 1914, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire - which brought both countries officially into the conflict that would become known as the First World War. When news broke, a jubilant crowd gathered in the Munich Odeonsplatz to celebrate the coming of war.

Photographer Heinrich Hoffman was on hand to record the event for posterity. Captured in the still image was the smiling face of a twenty-six-year-old Austrian by the name of Adolf Hitler.

Posted by Gifman
Captiva, FL
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:17 pm to
Was Hitler hot? This is the biggest question.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:18 pm to
He’s smiling because he’s surrounded by white people (and presumably no Jews).
Posted by weagle1999
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:19 pm to
No human is capable of being 100% evil.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:21 pm to
He was rejected from art school. They suggested he try architecture but that wasn't good enough for him. He was the bizarro George Costanza
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:22 pm to
He first tired to enlist in the Austro-Hungarian army but was turned down. He then petitioned to the Bavarian crown and was allowed to enlist in a Bavarian infantry regiment.

The rest is history.

Side note, Hitler would not gain German citizenship until 1932. Less than a year later he’d be the Chancellor of German.
Posted by Champagne
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:29 pm to
Nobody liked Hitler until he became a very powerful man. He knew that his new friends were all phonies, so, in a fit of rage, he decided to destroy the World.

Just like my brother, who is also a terrible person.
Posted by weagle1999
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:32 pm to
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Just like my brother, who is also a terrible person.


Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:36 pm to
quote:

No human is capable of being 100% evil.


Hitler liked dogs so there's that
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:39 pm to
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Hitler liked dogs so there's that


He had one the cyanide capsules he’d later use to kill himself tested on his German Shepherd “Blondi” to ensure they were effective.
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:46 pm to
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Hitler would not gain German citizenship until 1932. Less than a year later he’d be the Chancellor of German.


Sort of like the rise of Obama
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:49 pm to
Except Hitler had a large, bushy mustache before the First World War when his experience with a gas mask prompted him to change it



This post was edited on 8/2/26 at 6:51 pm
Posted by Tyga Woods
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:49 pm to
Nobody gonna question Teddy Roosevelt standing next to him?
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:51 pm to
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Hitler liked dogs so there's that


So long as they were pure bloods.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74414 posts
Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:51 pm to
quote:

Hitler would not gain German citizenship until 1932. Less than a year later he’d be the Chancellor of German.


quote:

Sort of like the rise of Obama


Kinda, except Hitler did legally gain actual citizenship.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:51 pm to
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Hitler liked dogs so there's that

and Xbox

Posted by GruntbyAssociation
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 6:52 pm to
He looks like a Prep Chef at Court of Two Sisters.
Posted by lsuconnman
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:00 pm to
The pic of hitler is just as historically accurate as John Wilkes booths pic as Lincoln’s inauguration.
Posted by mattz1122
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:15 pm to
Not a cell phone in site. Just Hitler enjoying life.
This post was edited on 8/2/26 at 7:16 pm
Posted by JasonDBlaha
Woodlands, Texas
Member since Apr 2023
5180 posts
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:17 pm to
It needs to be studied how he managed to transform a population of 80 million into a radicalized, bloodthirsty, death-cult. If you combine all of the POWs, concentration camp victims, innocent civilians, and soldiers of every country they went to war with, the Nazis probably killed close to 30 million people total.

Had Germany won the war, they would have conquered and enslaved almost every non-Aryan country in the world while leaving the Japs with a couple.
This post was edited on 8/2/26 at 7:24 pm
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