Comments on Liberal England: Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein

In Wittgenstein's Poker (Faber & Faber 2001) Edmon...

2008-01-17T13:40:00.000Z

In Wittgenstein's Poker (Faber & Faber 2001) Edmonds and Eidinow indicate that Ludwig's father Karl was insistent that the family live without ostentation and modestly, also that he "saw himself as a radical" so that might have had something to do with it as well. They also say (in chapter 12) that Hitler was a couple of grades below Wittgenstein.

No wonder Wittgenstein was a beery old swine...

2008-01-15T23:24:00.000Z

No wonder Wittgenstein was a beery old swine...

Also, I don't think Hitler was from that lowly an ...

2008-01-15T08:56:00.000Z

Also, I don't think Hitler was from that lowly an origin. At least, he wasn't a peasant, his parents were civil servants (fairly prestigious back then).
The opportunities were reasonable for the middle classes.
The lower classes probably did not have the opportunities.

From reading von Mises's biography I get the impre...

2008-01-15T08:54:00.000Z

From reading von Mises's biography I get the impression that Wittgenstein's family would not have been upper class (Jewish professionals), so its likely that children from more humble backgrounds would go to the same school.
Especially as this was a technical school, not one of the more elite schools which were more along the lines of a classical grammar school.

That Wittgenstein and Hitler went to the same scho...

2008-01-15T02:00:00.000Z

That Wittgenstein and Hitler went to the same school is mind-boggling! Someone could make a good short story out of that...