In 1907, a young man stood in front of the admissions board of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
He carried a portfolio of sketches, trembling with hope.
His name? Adolf Hitler.
But the board shook their heads. His work lacked perspective.
He walked away rejected. But what if they had said yes?
What if, that day, a single signature of approval had changed everything?
He might have spent his life in cafés sketching buildings, selling paintings on sidewalks, arguing about art movements not race, not ideology.
He could've been a forgotten painter, lost in the footnotes of European modernism.
Not a dictator. Not a monster.
There would be no swastika flags over Europe, no six million lives lost in the one of history’s darkest chapters, Global conflict might’ve been avoided, no atomic bombs.
Seventy million lives might have been spared.
And perhaps you watching this video now, would be hearing it in a world shaped by artists and dreamers, not by fear, hatred, or the echoes of destruction.
A single admissions letter, a single word: accepted, might have rewritten the fate of the 20th century.
Sometimes, history doesn't hinge on war declarations or political ideologies but on a missed chance, a closed door, or a young artist never given the chance to simply - paint.
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