DBWI: Alternative Adolf Hitlers in your timelines?
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I would suggest Eric Emnmanuel Scmitt's " La part de l'autre" , where two parallel AH timelines run with the exams for entry into the Vienna Art Academy being the point of divergence .
I wanted to do something where he became U.S. President, but it got too ASB what with him being a foreign national. Too bad. I'd love to see a cartoonist make it to the top job in the U.S. in one of these TLs someday.
Oh, you mean theYugoslavian?
Hitler? You mean the Wolf of Serbia?
He first of course came to notice, somewhat explosively, in June of 1914. Travelling through the Balkans on a sketching tour he found himself in the wrong place at the right time. Like many he was in the crowd to see Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but young Adolph found himself standing next to Gavrilo Princip. When Princip drew his gun to attempt assassination Hitler threw himself in front of the weapon.
The assassination was foiled but AH was left gravely injured. He was however a hero. This status he often refered to in later times as something that gave his life meaning. These events alone would have given Adolph a footnote in history, it is estimated that an assassination would have precipitated war far earlier and the Great War would have started in 1914 rather than 1917. However history had a new twist for Mr Hitler. Taken to Belgrade for treatment he had a long period of convalescence ahead of him.
Advised not to travel he was stranded in Belgrade but was befriended by Moša Pijade the Jewish Serbian Artist and intellectual. In the several years that Hitler stayed in Belgrade the two became firm friends. Pijade introduced Adolph to his ideas on communism and Yugoslavian nationalism. There is speculation of a certain amount of hero worship (even something more intimate) on Hitler's part for Pijade who most people consider to be the more able of the two.
Hitler was unable to fight in the Great War but was by 1917 a competent publicist and propagandist. He found a place in the Imperial ministry of Information where he stayed till the end of the war in 1923. In the post war turmoil that was Europe Hitler decided to go back to his friend and Mentor Pijade. By this time Pijade was involved in the movement for a united Yugoslavia. Seeing an opportunity to both aid his friend and to bring order to a troubled land Hitler threw himself into the movement. He held various positions in the communist party and authored several pamphlets, he is perhaps best known for his anti fascist drawings. In 1941 Hitler was moderately well known writer in Yugoslavia supporting socialist and Jewish interests. When the Fascist bloc attacked in that year Hitler naturally became a partisan. Leading many raids on the fascist positions with almost insane zeal he got the nickname 'The Wolf of Serbia'.
Hitler died in 1943 defending a column of Jewish refugees from a British Union of Fascist Strike Squad. He is a hero of the Yugoslavian Communist Party and and remembered in Israel for saving many hundreds of fleeing Jews.
Hitler? You mean the Wolf of Serbia?
He first of course came to notice, somewhat explosively, in June of 1914. Travelling through the Balkans on a sketching tour he found himself in the wrong place at the right time. Like many he was in the crowd to see Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but young Adolph found himself standing next to Gavrilo Princip. When Princip drew his gun to attempt assassination Hitler threw himself in front of the weapon.
The assassination was foiled but AH was left gravely injured. He was however a hero. This status he often refered to in later times as something that gave his life meaning. These events alone would have given Adolph a footnote in history, it is estimated that an assassination would have precipitated war far earlier and the Great War would have started in 1914 rather than 1917. However history had a new twist for Mr Hitler. Taken to Belgrade for treatment he had a long period of convalescence ahead of him.
Advised not to travel he was stranded in Belgrade but was befriended by Moša Pijade the Jewish Serbian Artist and intellectual. In the several years that Hitler stayed in Belgrade the two became firm friends. Pijade introduced Adolph to his ideas on communism and Yugoslavian nationalism. There is speculation of a certain amount of hero worship (even something more intimate) on Hitler's part for Pijade who most people consider to be the more able of the two.
Hitler was unable to fight in the Great War but was by 1917 a competent publicist and propagandist. He found a place in the Imperial ministry of Information where he stayed till the end of the war in 1923. In the post war turmoil that was Europe Hitler decided to go back to his friend and Mentor Pijade. By this time Pijade was involved in the movement for a united Yugoslavia. Seeing an opportunity to both aid his friend and to bring order to a troubled land Hitler threw himself into the movement. He held various positions in the communist party and authored several pamphlets, he is perhaps best known for his anti fascist drawings. In 1941 Hitler was moderately well known writer in Yugoslavia supporting socialist and Jewish interests. When the Fascist bloc attacked in that year Hitler naturally became a partisan. Leading many raids on the fascist positions with almost insane zeal he got the nickname 'The Wolf of Serbia'.
Hitler died in 1943 defending a column of Jewish refugees from a British Union of Fascist Strike Squad. He is a hero of the Yugoslavian Communist Party and and remembered in Israel for saving many hundreds of fleeing Jews.
I once read a TL, were he stays in Austria, then dies in World War One. This leads to his cheif rival Walter Disney, becoming the most successful animation mastermind in history, and get his own pary DisneyLand.
In OTL, Disney and Hitler fought the "Cartoon Wars" and Hitler eventually came out on top, after he made the first full length animated movie Flight of the Valkyries in 1938. Disney ended up commiting suicide in a hollywood basement.
In OTL, Disney and Hitler fought the "Cartoon Wars" and Hitler eventually came out on top, after he made the first full length animated movie Flight of the Valkyries in 1938. Disney ended up commiting suicide in a hollywood basement.
Dan Reilly The Great
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funny, I had a TL going where Walt Disney became a famous cartoonist in stead of rising to be the leader of the Canadian Fascist party. Perhaps in the same TL you could have Hitler stay in Austria and become an antisemitic politician.
ninebucks
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I once wrote a little, (light-hearted), TL, with him becoming a pornographer. Quite a comical alternative to him being a beloved entertainer of children, don't you think?
After all, the guy was rumoured to have three testicles! That's bound to make him quite horny.
OOC: This DBWI has some of the worst internal consistency I've ever seen...
After all, the guy was rumoured to have three testicles! That's bound to make him quite horny.
OOC: This DBWI has some of the worst internal consistency I've ever seen...
It is funny that a non smoker , alcohol abstaining vegetarian , who loved dogs and children(not in a paedophile way...), unfailingly polite to women was also a textbook sociopath . A (darkly humorous) PoD I could think of is that of a completely screwed up Wiener who, as a hero-in-a-novel in Irving Yalom's evergrowing list of treated celebrities becomes, through Herr Doktor Sigmund Freud's failed ministrations ,the infamous Juden-hater and evil ruler of the empire of darkness
Al-Buraq
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Adolf Hitler, or Addie, as he became known to his many fans was a famous Liverpudlian street artist and First Division socccer player in the years before WW1.
Arriving in Liverpool in June 1910, Addie Hitler lodged with his half-brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridgit (nee Williams) in Stanhope Street, Toxteth.
Originally he gained employment as a painter and decorator but became unpopular with his customers and neighbours when he would run up and down the street in the middle of the night shouting that the Jews had left the tops off of his paint tins.
His initial claim to fame was his series of huge murals adorning buildings all over Liverpool. Executed in the middle of the night and initially anonymously, the murals were considered to be a form of graffiti, but later recognised as early examples of revolutonary and popular "street art" capturing the mood of working class liverpool of the period, unfortunately Municipal philistinism and the destruction of WW2 has left only a single example.
Addie is though best known for his meteoric carreer with Liverpool FC. Found kicking a paint can and a Jewish shopkeeper in an alleyway by legendary talentspotter "Scouse" Lennon, a trial for Liverpool reserves soon landed Hitler the slot as centre-forward for the first team in a grudge match against Everton in November 1910 where he scored an impressive three goals, including one from a controversial scissors-kick against the goalie from inside the penalty box.
By 1913 Addie Hitler was the darling of the city and had become Captain, pround of his unusual armband. Even the fans chant of "E-I-Addio!" remains to this day in his honour. With fame came controversy. Some team members compalined of his "dictatorial attitude" and his personal design of new team strip that included thigh-length boots and a black and silver strip was never popular.
At the outbreak of WW1, Addie Hitler returned to his native Austria where he joined the military. After the war he never resumed his sporting or artistic careers and it is believed that he became a public speaker and government functionary----and invaded Poland.
Arriving in Liverpool in June 1910, Addie Hitler lodged with his half-brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridgit (nee Williams) in Stanhope Street, Toxteth.
Originally he gained employment as a painter and decorator but became unpopular with his customers and neighbours when he would run up and down the street in the middle of the night shouting that the Jews had left the tops off of his paint tins.
His initial claim to fame was his series of huge murals adorning buildings all over Liverpool. Executed in the middle of the night and initially anonymously, the murals were considered to be a form of graffiti, but later recognised as early examples of revolutonary and popular "street art" capturing the mood of working class liverpool of the period, unfortunately Municipal philistinism and the destruction of WW2 has left only a single example.
Addie is though best known for his meteoric carreer with Liverpool FC. Found kicking a paint can and a Jewish shopkeeper in an alleyway by legendary talentspotter "Scouse" Lennon, a trial for Liverpool reserves soon landed Hitler the slot as centre-forward for the first team in a grudge match against Everton in November 1910 where he scored an impressive three goals, including one from a controversial scissors-kick against the goalie from inside the penalty box.
By 1913 Addie Hitler was the darling of the city and had become Captain, pround of his unusual armband. Even the fans chant of "E-I-Addio!" remains to this day in his honour. With fame came controversy. Some team members compalined of his "dictatorial attitude" and his personal design of new team strip that included thigh-length boots and a black and silver strip was never popular.
At the outbreak of WW1, Addie Hitler returned to his native Austria where he joined the military. After the war he never resumed his sporting or artistic careers and it is believed that he became a public speaker and government functionary----and invaded Poland.
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