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Old 04-02-2010, 12:27 PM  
Paul Markham
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The school rejected him twice, so Hitler hung around the city, trying to make a living producing watercolors to sell to tourists, Mullock's said.

The rejection by the academy may have had huge implications for Hitler later in life, Westwood-Brookes said.

"Many believe that it was this rejection that turned his mind and unleashed the monster within him, which was to bring forth so much evil on the world," he said. "... In a sense, therefore, the academic decision of the art establishment in Vienna can go down as one of the most monumental decisions in all of history."
The rejection had "huge implications" for lots of other people as well.
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