Introduction & FAQ
AeroTheZealousOne
Monthly Donor
With limited inspiration and motivation for working on my original timeline, I've decided to work on a side-project that will cover a similar scope of time, but will be less in-depth and less detailed. Watch me screw up somewhere.
Something I've had floating in my head awhile is the premise of taking something that sounds like it's be a good thing, like the Nazis never coming to power in Germany, and turning it on its head, inadvertently creating a world that can be easily argued as worse than ours. I'd agree that a world without them and a world with millions of lives not killed out of hatred for race or status would be better than ours. But at what cost?
Allow me to clarify what should be an extremely obvious point: Under no circumstances do I condone the hateful, evil, and genocidal ideology that is Nazism, or any of its variants or modern-day derivatives in any of their forms. Its effects on the 20th century and beyond, not to mention the very lives we live today, cannot be denied nor understated. Following the Holocaust and its uncovering in the aftermath of the Second World War in the 1940s, anti-semitism was near-universally discredited, as well as the garbage pseudoscience known as “eugenics”.
But what if? What if, by freak chance and additional gunshots, the end result is the butterflying away of the Third Reich as we know it? What would be some of the ramifications of this on Europe, nay, the world? I intend to explore this, and not only bring it to its logical conclusions, but to deliberately see how the world could be worse outside of the conventional Cold War or Nazi Victory dystopias that appear on these forums.
Much world will thrive on Murphy’s Law up until the end of the main story. I have a feeling that a number of you are going to find the twists and turns that I take interesting. And with the introduction out of the way, I'll throw a brief FAQ up and we will get started!
Q: Is this collaborative?
A: It's not, but I will definitely take feedback and constructive criticism, as always!
Q: How far are you taking it?
A: The main story will end in 2000, with an epilogue foreshadowing events that may occur in the early 21st century.
Q: What, or who, are some of your inspirations for this timeline?
A: Way too many to mention, but once it's done I'll definitely mention everybody that played a part in either giving me ideas for this timeline, or otherwise just being an inspiration somehow. I was browsing a certain timeline (that I won't name) where a flamewar had essentially broken out. Naturally, it was in that trash heap of awfulness that prompted me four months later to finally try again at writing.
Q: What about pop culture?
A: Not as heavy of a focus here, but I might do a couple of updates glancing over pop culture and trends for TTL depending on the day and how inspired I am. However, if you have any contributions to pop culture feel free to PM me your ideas, and I might just include them in the next pop culture update!
Q: Any countries where it will be centered?
A: Not particularly. I'm a bit biased to include more from the United States, as a natural result of me having lived my entire life as of writing this so far there, but I'll definitely be covering the rest of the world, too. And since the Point of Divergence is naturally in Germany they're gonna get plenty of mentions too. I'll also cover Africa and South America a bit also seeing as they get ignored all too often in alternate history.
Q: Will this go on indefinite hiatus like the your other one?
A: I sure hope not. I feel like writing again and I'll try to pump out updates more regularly. No set schedule but at this point my goal is at least one update per day, or if not possible then one update every other day, until my schedule becomes bogged down once again.
Welp, so much for that. Updates will be whenever I'm up to writing, which might be months apart, or days, depending on factors, excuses, and the like. As of 2021 I now have a job and that eats into my time, my energy, and my motivation to write. So updates whenever, but hopefully this timeline will be finished in due time.
Q: What else should I know?
A: I'd tell you, but I outright refuse to spoil it beyond some early reveals in the first update below. But expect wars. I mean, what's the 20th century in any world without them? Also this timeline will be subject to various rewrites at times for a myriad of reasons, primarily the fact that as I mature as a writer I find myself more and more uncomfortable with plausibility or the lack thereof, as well as consistency issues.
Q: Shall we begin?
A: Let's do it!
Something I've had floating in my head awhile is the premise of taking something that sounds like it's be a good thing, like the Nazis never coming to power in Germany, and turning it on its head, inadvertently creating a world that can be easily argued as worse than ours. I'd agree that a world without them and a world with millions of lives not killed out of hatred for race or status would be better than ours. But at what cost?
Allow me to clarify what should be an extremely obvious point: Under no circumstances do I condone the hateful, evil, and genocidal ideology that is Nazism, or any of its variants or modern-day derivatives in any of their forms. Its effects on the 20th century and beyond, not to mention the very lives we live today, cannot be denied nor understated. Following the Holocaust and its uncovering in the aftermath of the Second World War in the 1940s, anti-semitism was near-universally discredited, as well as the garbage pseudoscience known as “eugenics”.
But what if? What if, by freak chance and additional gunshots, the end result is the butterflying away of the Third Reich as we know it? What would be some of the ramifications of this on Europe, nay, the world? I intend to explore this, and not only bring it to its logical conclusions, but to deliberately see how the world could be worse outside of the conventional Cold War or Nazi Victory dystopias that appear on these forums.
Much world will thrive on Murphy’s Law up until the end of the main story. I have a feeling that a number of you are going to find the twists and turns that I take interesting. And with the introduction out of the way, I'll throw a brief FAQ up and we will get started!
Q: Is this collaborative?
A: It's not, but I will definitely take feedback and constructive criticism, as always!
Q: How far are you taking it?
A: The main story will end in 2000, with an epilogue foreshadowing events that may occur in the early 21st century.
Q: What, or who, are some of your inspirations for this timeline?
A: Way too many to mention, but once it's done I'll definitely mention everybody that played a part in either giving me ideas for this timeline, or otherwise just being an inspiration somehow. I was browsing a certain timeline (that I won't name) where a flamewar had essentially broken out. Naturally, it was in that trash heap of awfulness that prompted me four months later to finally try again at writing.
Q: What about pop culture?
A: Not as heavy of a focus here, but I might do a couple of updates glancing over pop culture and trends for TTL depending on the day and how inspired I am. However, if you have any contributions to pop culture feel free to PM me your ideas, and I might just include them in the next pop culture update!
Q: Any countries where it will be centered?
A: Not particularly. I'm a bit biased to include more from the United States, as a natural result of me having lived my entire life as of writing this so far there, but I'll definitely be covering the rest of the world, too. And since the Point of Divergence is naturally in Germany they're gonna get plenty of mentions too. I'll also cover Africa and South America a bit also seeing as they get ignored all too often in alternate history.
Q: Will this go on indefinite hiatus like the your other one?
Welp, so much for that. Updates will be whenever I'm up to writing, which might be months apart, or days, depending on factors, excuses, and the like. As of 2021 I now have a job and that eats into my time, my energy, and my motivation to write. So updates whenever, but hopefully this timeline will be finished in due time.
Q: What else should I know?
A: I'd tell you, but I outright refuse to spoil it beyond some early reveals in the first update below. But expect wars. I mean, what's the 20th century in any world without them? Also this timeline will be subject to various rewrites at times for a myriad of reasons, primarily the fact that as I mature as a writer I find myself more and more uncomfortable with plausibility or the lack thereof, as well as consistency issues.
Q: Shall we begin?
A: Let's do it!
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