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Originally Posted by Helmut Von Moltke
Spekaing of all this 'illegal' stuff, it depends on a person's personal taste, really. I am a bit more objective, so Hitler's art was much better than mine no doubt, but still a bit kitchy. Just imagine how it would have been if he stayed an artist... 
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As I said in another thread, he was a better artist than I ever was, but that didn't make him any better than any other "average" never heard-of artist. Certainly his work would not sell for much today but for who he became later. It would likely be selling for the equivalent of $20 at garage sales. I wonder what he would have done when he developed his tremor later. That would have made fine art a bit harder for him.
If Hitler had stayed an artist, Europe would still have had to resolve the disaster of Versailles in one way or another. Stalin may have been the "Hitler" and we might be talking about the Battles of Paris and Madrid. Or perhaps a series of small wars. The way I see it, the 20th century in Europe was one long war, starting with the events in Sarajevo, and finishing with the the wars that broke up Yugoslavia in that very same region. Those last wars, were, after all, a consequence also of the first one. The only reason that region stayed united was that Tito had the respect of all, or at least of most, of the nationalities there. And that, ironically, he owed to Hitler for having invaded.