130 years ago, a widely acclaimed painter, an ardent lover of slam poetry was gifted to the world,

Dear Leader during training session
for the Winter Olympics 1936 where he
was a shoo-in for the gold medal.

progressing in his artistic influence from a synthesis of Greco-Roman classicism, the Italian Renaissance, and Neoclassicism, a gifted actor who dazzled movie goers worldwide with his eccentric hand gestures and body language par none.

He dazzled crowds as an unrivalled slam poetrist who fused contemporary themes with futuristic, avant garde philosophical anagrams.

A sportsman & outdoorer, the ingenious inventor of the internet meme genre, avowed vegetarian, staunch monogamist, gig economist, aided by the most successful central banker ever. German Shepards adored him.

With friends the world over, among them Mahatma Gandhi who wrote a clear and concise plea for him to avoid war, but it never reached its intended recipient because of an intervention by the British government. The historic incident has even been immortalised in a drama. Had the letter reached Dear Leader he might have joined the Mahatma in his Dandi Satyagraha. Perhaps even taken up the charkha philosophy. Alas, he followed different ideas that changed the world.

He excelled as a fashion trendsetter to this very day and proved, there is tradition in fashion.

Roland Freisler (left) and one of the Red Divas of Karlsruhe (right)

"Herr Hitler was a little eccentric, but he made the trains run on time", a contemporary once approvingly remarked. In any case, he was a gentleman who finally had the stature and ethical grandesse to take his own life when he realized he could not achieve his lofty, altruistic goals for which the world was just not prepared.

Far from being shunned, his legacy lives on in administrative realms of his home country ever so subtle.

Adolf Hitler, April 20, 1889 - 1945