When Adolf is born he shows problems in school, but great imagination and creativity. After viewing Charlie Chaplin films he enrolls as a film school and immediately falls in love with the media. He also grows his mustache during this period.
However, when war broke out he was conscripted and was made to help develop propaganda films and newsreels for the French Army. He was exposed to enemy fire during this time period and the death and destruction that ensued.
As the war progressed and anti-germanism and the death toll rose Adolf was placed in more and more dangerous assignments, leading him to be wounded twice and subsequently discharged. He received no medals from the French Government.
After the war Adolf starts writing screenplays, but the bad economic situation and his Austrian heritage keeps him from getting much work in France. He soon changes his name to Adolphe and his dark movies about disillusioned protagonists in an uncaring world attract a wide audience throughout France and Germany.
He becomes involved with French veteran's associations and gains much prominence, especially among disillusioned black Africans who were brought in to fight for a country that has tossed them aside. Adolphe develops a real connection with the unrepresented and with the French upbringing, he feels a profound distaste for war. His natural charisma and acting training makes him an extremely popular public speaker and his opinions soon carry much weight throughout Western Europe.
In an effort to promote post war peace and resolve a conflict between the Austrian Nationalist Heimwehr and the Republican Schutzbund, Adolphe travels to his parent's homeland, passing through French occupied Germany. Astonished by the oppression he sees there, he will travel to Germany often, eventually moving to the liberal capital Berlin. His speeches calling for greater representation of what he calls "The People's Will" and interdependence resonate throughout Germany and Austria, damaging Nationalist movements and increasing international discussion on oppressed peoples and the heavy war burden placed on Germany. He continues to write movies, but finds less and less time for his favorite pastime.
By 1930 Adolphe's influential speeches, powerful movies, and cross-national appeal has forced a change in policy so that most of the reparations were canceled. The Weimar government agreed to continue to honor the DMZ. An economic and social organization was created between France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to organize coal and steel production and foster international cooperation. Adolphe is selected as the Social Chairman. He is profoundly popular among the populous of these nations, but rails against the imperialist governments for their treatment of imperial subjects. Threats against removing Italy from the organization forces that nation to remove themselves from a war against Ethiopia in 1935.
In 1936 he issues a message of support for the elected Republican government of Spain, though he condemns actual military support and reprisals against civilians on both sides. Without German support tilting the balance the war grinds on and on.
He steps down from his post in 1938, following a democratic Anschluss between Austria and Germany, saying he looks forward to the day when all nations throw off the shackles of mistrust and unite, a final solution to the burden of war.
In 1939 the Soviet Union attacks Finland in the Winter War. The Union of Europe and England guarantee independence to any nation on the European boarder with the USSR. German is allowed a partial remilitarization. In 1944 the USSR invades Poland and the second great war begins. Adolphe grows more and more depressed as the war continues and he sees his mission to foster peace fail and in 1945 he commits suicide after finishing his last script. History would eventually call him one of the greatest humanitarians in the 20th century.
(When I started I didn't expect to cast him as a good guy, but I'm usually optimistic when it comes to history.