A World Without
This is a timeline inspired by my "A World Without" thread. Since this is my first timeline, any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
"Every so often, there is an event which changes the world, one unknown to the rest of Humanity. An unintended consequence. This is one of those events."
October 1916, Western Europe:
An explosion.
Pain.
Agony.
This was his world, to endure this pain. He stumbled to the ground, his gun lost from his hands. Blood poured out of his leg like a babbling brook, uncaring to his screams and curses in German. In another world, it is a superficial wound, a flesh wound.
But here, now, it was something much more dangerous. Unknown to the man, a piece of metal slid through his leg and rested at the femoral artery.
A slight muscle spasm, an involuntary twitch, and the artery was severed. He struggled to get to his feet, but failed. He collapsed to the ground, covered in dust.
Weakened, he began to crawl to the trenches, desperate to find his comrades. Desperate for help.
A second is a lifetime. An hour is stretched onto eternity.
He collapsed in the field, alone.
Crying for someone.
Anyone.
As the light flickered from his tear-stricken eyes, as he saw the white light, he begged for his life to be spared.
His desperate plea was not heard.
Corporal Adolf Hitler was dead.