Died? Survived. Survived? Died.

MrP

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This thread's gone a bit OT with everyone suggesting more chaps who could have died in WWI. So let's take that to its extreme.

ITTL the OTL survivors died during the war and OTL's dead survive. So no Byng in Canada, no Ludendorff or Hitler in Germany, no Mussolini in Italy, nor Pétain in France. It's a clean slate, people. Scribble on it!
 
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Upping the death rate from 10% to 90% or whatever is going to have some massive effects on the Global psyche, I'd think. :eek:
 

MrP

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Upping the death rate from 10% to 90% or whatever is going to have some massive effects on the Global psyche, I'd think. :eek:

Tbh, I'm thinking of just the ones who changed the world afterward rather than messing with statistics and physics. The other thread went horribly off at a tangent when everyone started suggesting additional dead to add to the initial dozen, so I thought I'd head that off at the pass. But I'm getting different confusion here. Hm. Third time lucky?

Understand the thread to mean that several of OTL's survivors of WWI die ITTL and several of those who died survive. Weave a new world based on these differences. Kill off as many influential people as you like. The boundaries are not just the war, but extend before and after a short yet reasonable (define it yourself) distance. So you could retain Jean Jaurès, for instance.

What I'm after is twofold: first, an exercise in creative thinking. Second, I also hope to learn of those chaps who didn't die who could have made an impact.
 
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