The Hitlers flat 102 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool, right of the railings'...This driving force to a great degree was aesthetic: it's ambition was to beautify the world through violence.'
On Nazism-the Doomsday Architects
There's an apocryphal tale in Liverpool, that has long been told amongst old wives and art students-a story which seems to summon a curious connection between the terrible, convoluted saga of Cielo Drive, Helter Skelter and Manson's predeliction for head tattoos.
In 1912, a 21 year old Adolph Hitler escaping the obligations of Army conscription in Austria was living on the bohemian fringes as an aspiring but largely failing artist and architect (1). Whether consumed with wanderlust, faced with the ravages of penury, or training as a covert British double agent (2) it is said that the young Adolph lived for a brief period in Toxteth, Liverpool, rooming with half brother Alois Hitler and his wife Brigid Dowling, in their three bed-roomed flat, 102 Upper Stanhope Street.
Hitler at cell window in Landsberg prison, 1924-aged 33In her contentious manuscripts of the period,(3) Brigid notes that the Führerling was bone idle, dividing his time between playing with her two year old son, or the strange Mrs Prentice-a neighbor with more than a passing interest in the occult. At other times Brigid's guest would disappear for hours,lost she presumed amongst the architectural delights the city had to offer. Indeed, Liverpool, with it's Gothic style Cathedral, three graces and national gallery, offered a veritable grotto for the future empire builder.
Liverpool Walker Art Gallery-1895. was Hitler drawn to the citybecause of it's rich baroque architecture?
Within sight of his lodgings, beneath the shadow of the Anglican Cathedral sits the Liverpool Institute and school of Arts. Constructed in the 1800's and home to former alumni such as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and a certain Lennon and McCartney, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that frustrated with his failed application to the school of art in Venice, Adolf sought tenure at the one time prestigious academy. Indeed, during my own period there, it was said that one of the faded watercolors in the halls, was a Hitler original, (4) which hung incidentally, opposite a Lennon doodle.
Watercolor of Munich Opera House-Adolf HitlerThat the period in Liverpool lasted just six months however, suggests that his pretext to study at the college was short lived . What is with little doubt, is that his appetite for architecture and the occult would have exposed young Adolf to a number of points of clandestine interest, within the city, all of which we shall explore in the next several entries.
Next-St Andrews Pyramid
(1) It's arguable that Hitlers ambitions-however corrupt-didn't delineate, and that his 'masterplan', was purely architectural (see Albert Spears "Theory of Ruin Value")
(2) In his book "Hitler was a British Agent"-Greg Hallett proposes that the Führer was a brainwashed pawn in a nefarious plot by occultists to eventually enslave humanity in a one world government. Hallett expounds that during 1912, Hitler was being programmed at the British Military Psyche-ops school at Tavistok ,Devon. Whilst the book seems to fail under the weight of all the usual of Illuminati predisposing, Tavistok happens to be the home of Crowley, and the Golden Dawn (more whom in a later post), and the school an earlier incarnation it seems of MK ULTRA.
(3) The manuscripts were discovered in the main branch public library of New York in the 1970's, spawning a book entitled 'The memoirs of Brigid Hitler' and the Beryl Bainbridge BBC series-Young Adolf. Controversy arose as to there authenticity, as although Alois and Brigid Hitler did indeed live in Liverpool, no documents can be provided for placing Hitler in England during the period of 1911 and 1912.
(4) I have vague recollection of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow, broadcast in the 1990's whereupon a Hitler original was discovered of a guest house in Southport, but can find no resource to confirm it.
