Hitler, Stalin, Freud, Trotsky, and Franz Joseph all lived within a radius of a few km in Vienna in 1913-14. “Stalin could have, with real probability, walked past a homeless Hitler trying to sell his mediocre watercolor paintings on the street…”
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Hitler, Stalin, Freud, Trotsky, and Franz Joseph all lived within a radius of a few km in Vienna in 1913-14. “Stalin could have, with real probability, walked past a homeless Hitler trying to sell his mediocre watercolor paintings on the street…”
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Tom Stoppard wrote a wonderful play called Travesties in which Lenin, James Joyce, and the Dadaist Tristan Tzara all run across each other in Zurich in 1917.
From the Wikipedia page for Vienna's Café Central:
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A reader fact-checked this: In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Freud and Trotsky all lived within a 2.36mi (3.8km) radius.
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