# 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

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Fascinating BBC article. Vienna in 1913 was the pivotal place to live. Imagine hanging out in those coffeehouses and listening to the conversations. Assuming you knew all the languages. 😉

> **[1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21859771)**
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> A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.

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> Vienna in 1913 was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which consisted of 15 nations and well over 50 million inhabitants.
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> “While not exactly a melting pot, Vienna was its own kind of cultural soup, attracting the ambitious from across the empire,” says Dardis McNamee, editor-in-chief of the Vienna Review, Austria’s only English-language monthly, who has lived in the city for 17 years.
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> “Less than half of the city’s two million residents were native born and about a quarter came from Bohemia (now the western Czech Republic) and Moravia (now the eastern Czech Republic), so that Czech was spoken alongside German in many settings.”
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> The empire’s subjects spoke a dozen languages, she explains.
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> “Officers in the Austro-Hungarian Army had to be able to give commands in 11 languages besides German, each of which had an official translation of the National Hymn.”