Wolves

" ... Stalin walks through the park, thinking. It's already getting dark. Then another walker comes towards him, twenty-three years old, a failed painter who's been turned down by the Academy and who is now killing the time in the men's hostel on Meldemannstrasse. He is waiting, like Stalin, for his big break. His name is Adolfo Hitler. The two men, whose friends at the time say they liked to walk in the park at Schönbrunn, may have greeted one another politely and tipped their hats as they made their ways through the boundless park... "

Florian Illies

1913: The year before the storm