well there was a TV series called Heil Honey I'm Home aka the most tasteless sitcom ever aired
I thought you'd just made that up and laughed 'til I cried but it actually exists! I have to see it. I have to.
well there was a TV series called Heil Honey I'm Home aka the most tasteless sitcom ever aired
Pity he was lacking in the sense of humour department otherwise he could have made a living as a Chaplin impersonator ... and he wouldn't have even had to speak!!
I might see him opening up some sort of worker's organization dedicated to the disenchanted left and moderate right. Beyond that I doubt he does much if anything. If he fights in the war he becomes a traitor against his own country but might gain the prestige in England to do something notable. I doubt he becomes an MP (though it would be funny to think of him debating/ranting at a younger Churchill or Lady Astor).
Now if he opened a bar...
Now THAT needs a sit-com.
Including one where he decides that in any future war, defeating Britain is a must, and thus come the next war, he throws more resources into that, and less into the SU, or holds off invading the SU entirely until Britain is crushed.Fast-forward to WWI and Hitler would be a foreign German national living in England which means that like so many other Germans living in England he would be interned, probably on the Isle of Man, for the duration of the conflict. Hitler's time in internment would undoubtedly impact his life in a profound way. Conceivably you could have him pursue any number of paths as a result of his time in internment. Perhaps he is mentored by other artists in the Camp and becomes an artistic success? Perhaps he's swayed by communist sentiment in TTL and returns to Germany? Any number of possibilities are available to the creative mind.
I'm pretty sure it's been revealed, through careful lip-reading and subsequent dubbing of the recorded speech onto the silent footage from the Berghof, that Hitler did crack jokes and was indeed something of a self-deprecator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWTaKKmxLU&t=3m30s
Would a German national who fought for the UK in World War I still be interned should a second world war arise if he could prove his war records, especially if he was decorated?
Which British medal is the closest equivalent to his OTL Iron Cross First Class?
By this time Hitler was already both a raging anti-semite, but a budding anti-leftist. Even in his early days, when the Nazi party HAD a left wing, a vibrant one at that I may add, he was always very clear that his concept of a revolution would be far and away different from the Red ones to the South and East of Germany.
Anyhow, just for fun, he would've made one hell of a Black and Tan.
Including one where he decides that in any future war, defeating Britain is a must, and thus come the next war, he throws more resources into that, and less into the SU, or holds off invading the SU entirely until Britain is crushed.
He may have been a really good speaker if you were a German; for the English he’d be just another silly foreigner.
First requirement would be that he would need to learn English. This poses an immediate obstacle, because throughout his life Hitler was a markedly lazy individual who did not like applying himself to study and hated being told what to do or corrected at anything, even by people trying to teach him subjects that he actually had an interest in.
Assuming that he did learn to speak English, and it would have to be good English for public speaking, not just a workable knowledge of the language necessary to do whatever basic form of employment he managed to pick up (this is a man who never graduated from school remember), there is still the problem of his accent; Hitler had a very strong Austrian accent that even Berliners had a hard time with, let alone the English. Lloyd-George had difficulties with the English with his Welsh accent, and L-G wasn’t just a good speaker, he was a brilliant speaker! So the very first time Hitler stands up at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park and opens his mouth the crowd is going to start laughing.
Which brings us to his next problem: Hitler had no sense of humour, none at all. He particularly lacked any capacity for self depreciation or appreciate a laugh at his own expense; any embarrassment made him angry. For an English audience this would be wonderful, it would be like a free pantomime show; Hitler would start talking and they’d start giggling, he’d go red and talk louder and angrier and they’d start laughing, he’d go very red and start shouting and the crowd would be in hysterics.
Even getting past this, as already mentioned, Hitler hadn’t even graduated from school. So no school tie, no university and no connections. No connections means no influence.
Besides which, the British are not going to listen to young nobody, and a foreign nobody at that, trying to talk them into a foreign policy that was simply not in the best interests of the empire.
So no, as far as a career in public speaking and politics goes, it would not happen in England. If he was lucky he could be a painter – interior walls, maybe park benches.
He wasn't elected for his military experience, he was elected for his supposed ability to restore the economy, though more correctly for his having great oratory.Would a Hitler who hadn't served in the Reichswehr gain traction in Germany? I think that 4 years of internment means that his political career in Germany is going to be over before it begins.
Yes, but most people, even on this site, lazily (including the person accusing Hitler of being lazy) prefers war-time caricature then actual historical study.
Yes, of course Hitler was a humourless, unintelligent, lazy, mad, un-charismatic, short, socially retarded, corrupt, ridiculous, cowardly, incestous eunuch that managed to revive a beaten country and conquer half a world by sheer luck. Makes complete sense.
hmm... i think just Hitler's sounds good as a bar nameIt could be like Cheers, only instead they could call it Dolph's pub
on the contrary, it often means the opposite.Well, there does seem to be an attitude around here (the forum) that 'evil automatically means stupid' that I've witnessed.
hmm... i think just Hitler's sounds good as a bar name
on the contrary, it often means the opposite.
imagine an idiot being evil, wouldn't get shit done now would he(/she?)