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WI Alois Hitler died between the conception and birth of his most infamous otl son?

The Nazi Party was just another tiny racist nationalist political parties fomenting in Munich. It was nothing before Hitler joined it, which may explain why we know so little about it pre-Hitler. Some other nationalist sect would have taken over in the thirties, though probably more Fascist/Nationalist than Nazi. OTOH, the circumstances of the Kaiser's abdication left a big hole that Hitler was able to fill. Who's to say whether someone else (who we know nothing of) might have filled the void instead? And worse, been more of a competent evil, like the technocratic Heydrich? The buffoonery of Mussolini, paranoia of Stalin, or bloodlust of Hitler cannot be taken for granted. What if a Franco-like dictatorship arises instead? And it will arise. The Weimar Republic was not destined to survive.
 
The Nazi Party was just another tiny racist nationalist political parties fomenting in Munich. It was nothing before Hitler joined it, which may explain why we know so little about it pre-Hitler. Some other nationalist sect would have taken over in the thirties, though probably more Fascist/Nationalist than Nazi. OTOH, the circumstances of the Kaiser's abdication left a big hole that Hitler was able to fill. Who's to say whether someone else (who we know nothing of) might have filled the void instead? And worse, been more of a competent evil, like the technocratic Heydrich? The buffoonery of Mussolini, paranoia of Stalin, or bloodlust of Hitler cannot be taken for granted. What if a Franco-like dictatorship arises instead? And it will arise. The Weimar Republic was not destined to survive.

To clarify this assumes the otl monster's birth but not experiencing his father's brutality
 
To clarify this assumes the otl monster's birth but not experiencing his father's brutality

Frankly I always assumed his personality was formed more by his being spoiled rotten by his mother, not being brutalized by his father. Alois Hitler certainly showed no love for his son Adolph, but there is no indication that he treated his other children any better or worse. It was neglect and indifference from Alois more than anything else.

Wasn't Hitler's own personality that of the spoiled child always having to have his way, rather than the twisted ghoul who slaughters small animals and pulls wings off flies?

Not all evil is the result of bad genes or a cruel upbringing. Sometimes it is because you have been raised to believe that the world is your oyster, ultimately turning you into a solipsist. Having a solipsist running a country is a pretty horrifying concept. I see Hitler, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, Pol Pot, and any God-King autocrat of antiquity to be solipsists.
 
To clarify this assumes the otl monster's birth but not experiencing his father's brutality

Without that element in his life, I very seriously doubt Hitler would have quite become what he was. Though I do agree with Usertron on one thing: If not him, then somebody else could still have rose up in his place.
 
Frankly I always assumed his personality was formed more by his being spoiled rotten by his mother, not being brutalized by his father. Alois Hitler certainly showed no love for his son Adolph, but there is no indication that he treated his other children any better or worse. It was neglect and indifference from Alois more than anything else.

Wasn't Hitler's own personality that of the spoiled child always having to have his way, rather than the twisted ghoul who slaughters small animals and pulls wings off flies?

Not all evil is the result of bad genes or a cruel upbringing. Sometimes it is because you have been raised to believe that the world is your oyster, ultimately turning you into a solipsist. Having a solipsist running a country is a pretty horrifying concept. I see Hitler, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, Pol Pot, and any God-King autocrat of antiquity to be solipsists.

I don't quite get this "god-king of antiquity is a solipsist" thing; it smells rather more like a relic of a certain kind of mediocre orientalist historiography and understates the degree to which ancient kings had customarily-understood duties and responsibilities as well as privileges and the degree to which in many of these ancient societies kingship was seen as something which could be divinely revoked if the king did not live up to these expectations.

And I don't think Hitler being spoiled rotten is enough to have made him a genocidal maniac; lots of people get spoiled rotten as a child and do not become genocidal maniacs because they either mature or at least fail to mature in ways that do not make them genocidal maniacs but just average egotistical asses. Having said that, changing his life-outcome is probably not very difficult; we need only for example avert the death of his brother Edmund, allow his father a little more indulgence towards his interest in becoming a monk, or arrange for him to stay in one place long enough for one of his teachers to observe his talent for drawing and sketching and suggest to his father that the young man might wish to consider preparing for a career that made good use of these talents. A career in architecture or technical drawing for instance might well have appealed to young Adolf's interest in classical education and talent for drawing while reassuring Alois of his son's financial and social prospects, and his brother Edmund surviving to adulthood is likely to have improved young Hitler's academic work and quite throughly changed the trajectory of his life(even with no personality change, that kind of spoiled 'the world is my oyster' personality would probably do fine in academia). Although admittedly it is somewhat disturbing to note that it would only take a few relatively small tweaks to change our image of Adolf Hitler from "History's great genocidal monster" to "somewhat iffy but popular in his day late Romantic architect" or "notable professor of classical art and archaeology at the University of Jena in the 1930s and 40s, best known for his publications on the influence of Roman art on medieval German architecture and architectural sculpture.

Concerning the Weimar Republic: While the rise of the right is a real danger I don't think the republic was inherently unsalvageable structurally. An earlier and stronger crackdown on the right-wing militias in the aftermath of WWI gives it more room to weather the storms of the depression and killing the Nazi Party is likely to remove at least one major, major source of instability. A fascist state is quite possible, but I would suspect it would be more cautious, more beholden to existing governmental structures, and less terrifyingly ambitious, perhaps even with its aims limited to territorial revanchism. Another underexplored possibility is a more vigorous German Left launching a left-wing takeover that establishes a socialist or communist state with an ambivalent relationship to the Soviet Union.
 
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