Changed histories: Hitler dead in 1940

Ok, so i'm writing a science fiction epic novel, set on a parralel universe earth, and the story spans two hundred years, starting in 1913.

Background historywise, everything runs in parralel with us, until mid 1940 where hitler dies of a brain aneurism.

For the sake of everone's sanity, as i hope to get this thing turned into a screenplay as well, would someone be able to come up with a scenario for me to work into the novel? I'm not well versed in history, but i'm quite certain the Russians might start to look less neighbourly?

To make things a little more interesting, Old (nazi) germany developed a V3, complete with nuclear payloads (sort of like an icbm), based on the work of a third party, who are essentially a charitable megacorporation, and are now responsible for finding a solution to the whole damn mess.
 
Let me see if I have this straight...

You're writing an alternate history/sci-fi novel. The novel will run between the years 1913 and 2113 with the major turning point being Hitler's death due a medical condition in 1940, but, because you're not well versed in history, you don't actually know how his death with effect the both course of the war or it's aftermath, let alone 2113.

Is that pretty much it?

The point I can't quite get my silly little mind wrapped around is the idea that you're seriously contemplating writing an alternate history novel while also admitting you know so little about history that you can't figure out what the consequences of Hitler's death in 1940 would be.

In fact, you know so little that you couldn't eve answer Astrodragon's question properly. Partway? Partway through what? The invasion of Norway? The invasion of France? The Battle of Britain? The Italian invasion of Greece?

I don't know if a publisher will touch it but, given Hollywood's well known historical illiteracy, you should have no trouble selling it as a screen play.

So, we do all the research and thinking, then you do the typing and get the money?
 
I've done a little research on the subject, and i was thinking / assuming that the Nazi's might stall thier advance somewhat due to infighting, giving the countries under attack time to mount some sort of counter attack, possibly some sort of attritonal attacks?

Surely after sometime, it would become something like a larger scale version of world war 1?



Maybe not all the money :)
 
To make things a little more interesting, Old (nazi) germany developed a V3, complete with nuclear payloads (sort of like an icbm), based on the work of a third party, who are essentially a charitable megacorporation, and are now responsible for finding a solution to the whole damn mess.

So is the V3 developed before Hitler dies in 1940?
 
Ok, so i'm writing a science fiction epic novel, set on a parralel universe earth, and the story spans two hundred years, starting in 1913.

To make things a little more interesting, Old (nazi) germany developed a V3, complete with nuclear payloads (sort of like an icbm), based on the work of a third party, who are essentially a charitable megacorporation, and are now responsible for finding a solution to the whole damn mess.

Since the V3 wasnt a rocket, its rather unlikely to be turned into an ICBM.
Your knowledge of history is, shall we say, probably about on a par with the average congresscritter....:eek:
 
Holy God, I am absolutely speechless... wait... no I'm not.

Holy God, yes I am. I cannot reply to this thread without breaking some rules of the forum. I just deleted three paragraphs of pwnage.

Basically, I would say you're SOL. The idea is not A. feasible, B. interesting, or C. very good. And your supreme lack of research (or desire to research) makes all of this so much worse.

I hope nobody on here helps you with this project. It's insulting to ask us to do all of your research for you, and to add to it, your idea is pretty much hilarious. To people who really like/care about/invest in/write alternate history (which would be pretty much everyone on this forum) you are the definition of charlatan.

Sorry if that was offensive to anyone, I know I'm new here, I just couldn't believe what I was reading...
 
Yes, i'm well aware that my knowledge of history terrible, which is why i came here for help.

I should have mentioned part of the background to my current piece of writing:

There is an organisation known as the Foundation of Peace and Brotherhood (no connection to any religious body) Who have gathered the neccesary resources to put people in orbit, in order to create a lunar colony later in the story.

The Germans have stolen the plans to one of the foundation's rocket designs, loaded it with fissionable material in a last gasp effort to keep the war going.

What i would like from at least one or two members is a rough sort of framework i can incorporate into my story of things that could happen.

For all i know, i could just have Russia ride roughshod over most of europe to get at germany?
 
Yes, i'm well aware that my knowledge of history terrible, which is why i came here for help.

I should have mentioned part of the background to my current piece of writing:

There is an organisation known as the Foundation of Peace and Brotherhood (no connection to any religious body) Who have gathered the neccesary resources to put people in orbit, in order to create a lunar colony later in the story.

The Germans have stolen the plans to one of the foundation's rocket designs, loaded it with fissionable material in a last gasp effort to keep the war going.

What i would like from at least one or two members is a rough sort of framework i can incorporate into my story of things that could happen.

For all i know, i could just have Russia ride roughshod over most of europe to get at germany?

I'd just concentrate on the story rather than the alternate history aspect - there are plenty of novels that just deal with the circumstances of the new worlds which the author has created, without going into detail about how they came about. This doesn't mean it won't turn out well - it'll just mean that the focus is on the characters and situations themselves as opposed to the point of divergence. :)
 
Torn, I have to commend your inimitable compassion there. And it's very good advice, Munkey.

Go with what you know. Focus on the plot and less on the specifics if you don't know any specifics.
 
Ok I'll give it a go...

All of the German troops immediately shut down, because they're really robots and Hitler was the mainframe that controlled them. Then Rudolph Hess uses his Nazi magic to conjure a nuke and then Himmler's like "FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!11" and Austrailia's like "WTF mate?".

Make sure you put me in the credits.
 
I'll do that, i suppose i could always have an appendix later on which details what would happen.

Though surely, i would need to know what would happen, in order for my characters to react to the situation, because i can't very well have a two hundred year span story, which mentions Hitler died, and then never mention the after effects?
 
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