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).
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