George Dvorsky
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were mortal enemies. Before that, however, the two future leaders fought a mere ten miles away from one another on the Great War's Western Front. And along with their guns, they also brought their paint brushes.
Though they found themselves at the Western Front during the war, their backgrounds couldn't have been more different. Hitler joined a Bavarian reserve force after failing as an artist in Austria, while Churchill, recently disgraced from the failed campaign in Gallipoli, was stationed at the front (in true Churchillian fashion he brought a bathtub along with him).Hitler would go on to win two Iron Cross medals, get promoted to corporal, and suffer from a shrapnel injury and a gas attack. Churchill, relegated to a brigadier-general, took up his command with a positive attitude and quickly won over his previously skeptical officers from a battalion that had seen major losses during the battle of Loos. The image at left shows Churchill in France commanding Royal Scots Fusiliers in January 1916.
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