DBWI: Alternative Adolf Hitlers in your timelines?

I am of course talking about the Austria-American cartoonist Adolf Hitler, who's current persona is probably more legend than fact. Hitler, who was born in Chicago (but conceived in Austria; his parents moved while pregnant with him) is the creator of Wally Wolf, probably the most widely known cartoon character in the world, produced the first theatrical cartoons, and has a theme park, Hitlerworld, dedicated to him and his creations.

Most people don't know of his extreme political views, though. He was an outspoken supporter of the Mussolini regime, and supported militias to fight for the facists in the German civil war of the late 30's (despite his assistance, however, the communists still won). He even ran for governor of California in 1938, but lost by less than 500 votes.

His mental health deteriorated during the 50's, though, to the point where he was literally insane. He died in the early 60's, at the height of his popularity.

So tell me your alternative Adolf Hitlers, or even alternative Hitler animated canons. I have read one VERY ASB timeline while his parents stayed in Austria, leading him to become the dictator of some weird German nationalist state, eventually committing suicide while the Soviets invaded Berlin. (I doubt they could have done that, just look at what they did OTL during their invasion of France in 1943.)

(Off Topic: yes, I know technically this is pre-1900, but I think it belongs here for some reason. :noexpression:)
 
Well in one of my TLs, Hitler won the 1938 election for California Govenor. He then went on to run for President in 1944. He won by a landslide due to his popular/successful Govenorship in California.

ITTL, I also decided to make it that the OTL conspiracy theories about him (him being an Anti-Semite) were true. ITTL he is pretty much an asshole. :p
 
Well in one of my TLs, Hitler won the 1938 election for California Govenor. He then went on to run for President in 1944. He won by a landslide due to his popular/successful Govenorship in California.

ITTL, I also decided to make it that the OTL conspiracy theories about him (him being an Anti-Semite) were true. ITTL he is pretty much an asshole. :p
Great idea! You inspired me to write this song :):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk
 
Leaving my hometown Göteborg, capital of Scandinavia travelling to the Triple Monarchy in 1907 spending a few days in Vienna I met one artist, a painter in the street.
Like so many who was making a modest living from selling whatever they would be able to make themselves or having bought cheaply and now trying to force on the innocent tourist he was wearing his army uniform with an old ribbon on the chest.
In a coarse throat he explained that he as a veteran of the War of Emperors 1894-5 had been allowed by the Imperial authorities to sell his paintings in the street to make a living. If I had an interest in painting? Certainly I have, but not in the works he presented.
Having nothing to do I spent a few minutes watching his entire collection for sale but found nothing of interest. The only thing of interest was the man himself.
He's voice was very difficult to understand due to a wound in the throat he'd incurred on the Italian front during the war. That had earned him the ribbon of which he was very proud; actually to the brink of viewing himself of the defender of Austria his homeland in the Triple Monarchy. But isn't all impoverished veterans making a living on begging and charity like that?
He had been only 19 with a promising career at the Vienna Academy of Arts but the Italians had ruined this. Actually the Italians was in his view the greater evil of the world but at this stage he'd get so agitated understanding his speech was well nigh impossible.
Finishing his rambling about the Italians I had him tell something of his life. He was married; actually his selling of paintings made it possible for him to marry and sustain a family with three children. Asked if his wife did add to the household he went on another rant almost in the line of the Italian one but this time dedicated to the sacredness of the family and the mother as the real source of the Austrian nation!
I stayed with him talking for almost an hour. Talking; well he did most of the talking ranting on about Italians his real pet subject, the Austrian peoples, the mediocre Academy of Arts that kept rejecting his works and so on. Only the appearance of a woman whom I mistook for his mother or an aunt but who showed to be his wife made him stop the incessant talking.
Almost nursing him she had him collect his works and then leave the place for home.
I never saw the man again but then it was my only time in Vienna.
His name: Adolph Hitler.
 
I wrote a TL where Hitler entered the priesthood after WWI and left sometime in the early 1930s to take command of the Catholic Center Party and defeat the Nazis under Gregor Strasser.

As Chancellor, he presides over the defeat of the Soviets in a WWII the Soviets start in the later 1940s, at one point personally participating in combat.

In the "captive nations" of Eastern Europe liberated from Soviet control, there are statues of him.

Irony is great.
 
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I read a good one recently about him going to China with Chiang, who he met in the trenches. China turned out pretty much the same as OTL, except we managed to reunify a few years earlier.

OOC: :D
 
You mean the Famous German Actor Aldof Hitler ?

Coincidental discover in beginn 1920 in Munich by the UFA
he play littel role in silent movies like "Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens"
then he became famous in silent movie like "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang
were Hitler play Johann Fredersen, the leader of the city of Metropolis

but He get real Stardom with talkie Movies like "Der Blaue Engel" by Josef von Sternbergs
his role of Prof. Emmanuel Rath and his downfall true beautiful Lola Lola, play by Marlene Dietrich.

and "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" 1931
Lang offert Hitler the role of a serial killer Hans Beckert.
Hitler declined the offer and Peter Lorre get the role
but Hitler play in Movie Herr Schränkers, Boss of the top crooks who decide to get rid of the killer themselves.

later in "Das Testament des Docktor Mabuse" by Fritz Lang
were Hitler plays Professor Baum, and his quest for "unlimited reign of crime"
but the Movie reception was Negative by NSDAP and the Führer Ernst Röhm
while Fritz Lang left Germany, Hitler stay and used his famousness, just like Hans Albers
the two became the most popular actor under Nazi rule.
They play together in "Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war" Albers was Holmes and Hitler as dr. Watson
also in classic movie "Große Freiheit Nr. 7" (the movie was banned in Nazi Germany on 1944)

Hitler was force by minister Joseph Goebbels to play several Movies against his will
like "Jud Süss" were Hitler was force to play the role of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer
(Hitler how was a antisemitic had to play a Jew !)
also had Hitler to play a evil French Dicator how get killt by German troop in Movie "Feldzug in Frankreich"
that minister Joseph Goebbels form of revenge for Hitler role in "Das Testament des Docktor Mabuse"...
 

Bearcat

Banned
Why would anyone write anyone write a TL about an artistic nobody like Hitler? :confused:

Though I guess it beats yet another Godwin TL invoking Stalin's Genocide, or his unmentionable sea bird. God I hate those. :rolleyes:
 
Why would anyone write anyone write a TL about an artistic nobody like Hitler? :confused:

Though I guess it beats yet another Godwin TL invoking Stalin's Genocide, or his unmentionable sea bird. God I hate those. :rolleyes:

Oh God, I hate Operation Chayka. The amount of times I see "What if the Soviets managed to conquer France and then cross the Channel?" really bugs me.

Slightly off topic, but I do suppose that the Eurasian Union would never have been if they had some kind of counterweight to their expansion, most logical would be Benito Mussolini being replaced by someone more competent and willing to face off the growing communist threat in the east. Wonder what would have happened. I envision the Transatlantic Defence Organisation forming much earlier than it did OTL, with Europe joining with the USA and the British Empire to combat the Soviets.
 

Hashasheen

Banned
Adolf Hitler? The Hero of the Austria-Hungary? He who bled on the streets of Sarajevo when he took a bullet for his Imperial Majesty, a bullet sent from the barrel of a gun that belonged to the damned Serbians. Or at least that's how I did him in my timeline. Just a nice little lead off for an alternate WW1.
 
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Adolf Hitler? The Hero of the Second Reich? He who bled on the streets of Berlin when he took a bullet for his Imperial Majesty, a bullet sent from the barrel of a gun that belonged to the damned socialists.

OOC: I think we've established that Hitler ITTL is the equivalent of Disney. :rolleyes:
 
In the AHN Universe, the Nazis were still elected into power, and the Kaiser had to make him chancelor. Shortly after, the Kaiser and all his loyal followers were forced to flee to the River Platte (a German Colony since the time of Prussia). So WWII in Europe was largely a German civil war between Fuhrer Germany and Kaiser Germany.
 
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