Adolf Hitler was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

The story behind the answer

False. Adolf Hitler was rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts—he failed the entrance exam in 1907 and was turned down again in 1908. The academy’s evaluators noted he had some talent for architectural subjects and suggested architecture, but he lacked the necessary secondary schooling to pursue it.

This setback left him in poverty in Vienna, where he sold postcards and paintings and absorbed radical, racist, and nationalist ideas that later shaped his politics. Remember it this way: “Twice rejected, no