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If Hitler Also Spelled Hiedler

Joe Dolce

Mar 01 2014

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If Hitler Also Spelled Hiedler 

 

Hüttler or Huettler

at seventeen had remained

in watercolour been accepted

at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

even become a priest as once intended

the swastika would still signify

auspiciousness in Sanskrit

Israel wouldn’t exist

no Berlin or West Bank walls

holocaust would refer to

a burnt offering of Moses

WWI would still be The Great War

I would have had one more uncle.

 

Joe Dolce

 

Joe Dolce

Joe Dolce

Contributing Editor, Film

Joe Dolce

Contributing Editor, Film

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