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“AH: I ruined our good time…why did I do that, doctor?

DR: We are our own worst enemies. If everyone could simply take joy from the mere fact that they are alive, well…I’d be out of business.

AH: So people ruin their own happiness?

DR: Many of them. It’s the human condition. By why? Ay, there’s the rub.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
“AH: A great artist is imperative to society, doctor, because that person decides to pursue the uncertain future of an artist for no other reason than to create art and improve life for everybody. Art is self-determining and undemocratic. It’s a meritocracy. And anyone with any sense at all understands that art is the soothing slave on the irritating wound that is life.

DR: Did you just make that up?

AH: Yes.

DR. That’s very good.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
“How humans can allow such a place to exist right there in their greatest city is beyond my comprehension. This is the hell we create for ourselves in an unchecked capitalist democracy. Sink or swim. Well, I sank.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
“So, like so many artists before me, my comrades-in-arms, Rembrandt, Rubens, da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, anyone who willingly put themselves through this same ordeal, I purchased everything I needed and began hauling my canvases, easel, and paints all over the large metropolis of Vienna every day. I searched for my voice, my signature, what made my paintings inherently and unmistakably mine.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
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“Well, let’s see…my life. Put simply, I could not get into battle fast enough, and my father couldn’t die soon enough. The two greatest moments of my life so far are when I received my first Iron Cross and the death of my father.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
“Well, let’s see … my life. Put simply, I could not get into battle fast enough, and my father couldn’t die soon. The two greatest moments of my life so far are when I received my first Iron Cross and the death of my father.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse
“Dr. Forster: You are a puzzle.

Adolf Hitler: I certainly hope so.”
Josh Becker, Hitler in the Madhouse