Hitler in Vienna tour

One of the reasons I was so excited about coming back and spending a few days in Vienna, was a new recently added VoiceMap tour about Hitler’s youth in Vienna. It was done by the same authors as our favorite VoiceMap Vienna tour about the Natzi hunters. We spent a couple of hours, tracing Hitler’s journey. He was born in a small town near Vienna, and came to Vienna as a young hopeful, to apply to Vienna Academy of Arts. He was rejected and kept reapplying, meanwhile his mental state unraveling, paving the way for the megalomaniac epitome of evil that he was about to become. He was poor and crushed in Vienna, and the tour took us through fascinating details of his years there. The tour ended at the Academy of Arts, showing us the place that had the potential to turn the wheel of history and save many millions of innocent lives. If only he was accepted there (rejected three times, instead!), becoming a harmless artist…

Afterwards, in the afternoon I did another new VoiceMap tour of the center, revisiting beautiful squares, buildings and cathedrals.Read more