DBWI: The Great Warrior Hitler doesn’t become a Pacifist after The Great War?

As we have all seen in pop culture, Hitler was an Austrian born German soldier. He became famous during The Great War when he shot and killed Winston Churchill and captured 40 men on the same day. Shortly after he became an assassin who killed numerous high profile targets during the war. He became something of an icon who had even the Kaiser request an audience with him.

After he was moved back to the front lines to boost morale, he fell in love with and married a French spy. She died tragically by her own governments doing after she confessed the truth to him as she fell for him, and she died in his arms.

Hitler led charges at the Marne that helped lead to the Fall of Paris in 1918, ending the war, even continuing to fight after he was shot twice.

Many in Germany expected him to become a major figure in the army and to potentially run for office post war. The Kaiser believed Hitler to be perhaps the most passionate speaker he had ever met. But Hitler shocked everyone by swearing to never kill again, becoming anti-war, becoming a vegetarian, and taking a vow of poverty.

Hitler has since become an icon. Numerous movies made about him. Statues all around the world. People are fascinated by his changes of demeanor over the end of the war. Of his art. And also of his story post war of eventually coming to terms with his actions. We’ve all seen the movies and the TV show.

If Hitler had not changed, what future would he have had in politics? Could he have been more than a ceremonial figure in the army? The Kaiser and Hindenburg both thought the sky was the limit for him. If he became a regular national figure, what influence would he have had in politics?

Also, if Germany lost, what would have become of him? Would he have felt the mission was complete, or would he have wanted revenge?
 
Maybe if the Central Powers had lost WW1, we wouldn't have seen Communist France rise from the ashes and perpetrate the Great Pogrom in Europe and an even worse genocide in its African colonies.

That in turn would have meant Einstein didn't have to help Germany develop the atomic bomb to stop the French and Soviets. Trotsky tends to fly under the radar but he might have been even more evil than anyone in Paris, if that's possible.
 
OOC: Just a note, from what I've read, I don't think Hitler was capable of love as in physical coupling, which would hamper any potential relationship.
 
We might see a delayed civil rights movement in the US because without the atrocities in Africa you wouldn't be able to link segregationists to communists during the Red Scare of the 1940s.
 
Well America wouldn’t pass the Eagle Wings Amendment that formally made Liberia its overseas territory to protect Africans, both native and American, and similarly wouldn’t have made romanticism of the confederacy a form of treason (officially it was on the basis that it advocated overthrow of the government, but we all know it came from fear of ethnic violence as Africans flooded stateside). Finally the US would’ve been far less likely to take Vietnam than in our timeline. French “decolonisation” of indochina created an aggressive puppet that attempted an assault on the American Philippines, which obviously went incredibly poorly, leading to American conquest of Vietnam and the creation of the South East Asia Republic, (after American decolonisation of course) our strongest Pacific ally to this day.
 
OOC: Just a note, from what I've read, I don't think Hitler was capable of love as in physical coupling, which would hamper any potential relationship.

Also OOC: Well, according to Wikipedia, he was very capable of it:

Braun biographer Heike Görtemaker notes that the couple enjoyed a normal sex life.[22] Braun's friends and relatives described her giggling over a 1938 photograph of Neville Chamberlain sitting on a sofa in Hitler's Munich flat with the remark: "If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen."[23]
 

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Hitler, after what is now being visibly diagnosed as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, ends up wandering into Berlin Academy of Arts in one of his drunken bout of depression, and many said he rediscovered his love of arts there when a Jewish artist let him have his canvas and oil paint if him wanted to get into drawing once again.

Well that, and the fact that he generously donated his hefty pension to Berlin Academy of Arts afterwards, so much that they gave him arts scholarship and let him stay there.

He spent 50 years living in The Dorm, being working there as part time art lecturer, part time painter who was credited by single handedly started the German Tragicalism Artistic Movement, highlighted by portraying loss of human lives, or any lives, for any reasons as the ultimate tragedy.
 
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