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Originally Posted by Skybird

Not sure, Brad. Not many people do know that the first events of massive Jewish shop crushings - did not taken place in Germany during the 30s or during the Reichskristallnacht, but already over ten years earlier, in the early twenties - in Austria. The Nazi's unmistakable pong already was in the air, together with strong antisemitic sentiments throughout Europe: Austria, Germany, and France and England as well. Probably there would have been noone able to put up such a giant horror show like Hitler did, but another leading figure making something out of the constellation surely would have shown up. Maybe even some of the names that under Hitler raised to power.

I recall reading that as a young man Hitler spent some influential years in Vienna as he was studying, or attempting to anyway, to become a painter at the Vienna School of Art. I believe what I read said that the city at that time left great mark on him and that he considered it to be a model city. Perhaps Hitler's rampant anti-semitism might partly have a root in this period.