Hitler born in Italy

Adolf Hitler can become a pope.

A successful pastor, perhaps. A pope, not likely. Hitler was a damned good orator (seriously - they only play the ridiculous bits these days, but that's just 1930s Germany style. He had a good speaking voice and worked obsessively on his delivery). That's what the Church values in its pastoral slots, but it doesn't get you into higher office. To be a curial, let alone a pope, it takes serious intellectual firepower, preferably a major in canon law, though these days moral theology also carries cachet. Despite his voracious reading, that wasn't Hitler's forte. But you have to consider, as others pointed out, Hitler wasn't born a political maniac. He seems to have had an inflated sense of his own importance pretty much from the start, but in his early years he was looking for a greater cause to serve. The priesthood wouldn't be bad for him.

I doubt he'd fit into italian politics, though. Not enough proletaroid ex-petit bourgeois, not enough resentful frontschweine, not enough anmgry dispossessed would-be intellectuals and too much admiration for machismo. Hitler isn't anywhere near macho enough. He'd probably be laughed offstage.
 
How terribly ironic. :rolleyes:

It's just as likely as any other suggestion. Although to be fair the Italian invasion of Ethiopia would probably be butterflied away, meaning he'd have little reason to chose that part of colonial Africa in particular to migrate to.
 
It's just as likely as any other suggestion. Although to be fair the Italian invasion of Ethiopia would probably be butterflied away, meaning he'd have little reason to chose that part of colonial Africa in particular to migrate to.

Or he can just be an artist.
 
Or he can just be an artist.

He was never all that good at it IRL. I'm not sure he would have even tried to become an artist had he not lived in Vienna where there was a prestigious art school.

Though who knows. Contemporary Italian art styles might inspire Hitler to become a much better and serious painter.
 

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It really depends on where in Italy and exactly what happens to him in his childhood.

I could see him going anywhere from going back to Germany before WWI, enlisting in a Bavarian regiment and doing similar things to OTL, to dying in a muddy trench to becoming some sort of artist or businessman.
 
Shouldn't this thread belong to other sub-forum ?

This subforum is for Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900, right ?

It seems that some people doesn't even bother to check and still create threads about events after 1900s in this subforum ! :mad:

This is really annoying !

the POD is 1889, and the events branch off from there.

and there's still 11 years before 1900, lots of time for things to change.

It's in the Right forum.
 
the POD is 1889, and the events branch off from there.

and there's still 11 years before 1900, lots of time for things to change.

It's in the Right forum.

Oh, it's about Hitler's birth and not after that.

Sorry for the interruption. :p

I found several thread in the past which should be after 1900 but still posted here which make me rather paranoid when famous people mentioned here with famous exploits after 1900s
 
What if Hitler's mom goes to the U.S

Probably he becomes a reasonably skilled architectural draftsman, working for an architectural / engineering firm, or perhaps a mechanical designer/draftsman working for a major railroad. I'd assume he'd grow up in a city with a sizable German-speaking population, which would suggest Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee, or Cincinnati. I'll go with Baltimore since that's the one I know best, and besides, at the beginning of the 20th century, approximately one-fourth of the population of that town spoke German.

So...he becomes a designer/draftsman in the engineering department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, working his way up slowly, until he's the head of the drafting room by the early 1930s. He takes night school courses at Hopkins during the same period, earning his degree in mechanical engineering. By the mid 1930s, he's promoted to second in command of the engineering department, and becomes the honcho in the early 1940s. He retires at the mandatory age of 65 in 1954.

Outside the office...hard to be sure, but chances are he leads a relatively ascetic life, is a regular at Mass at Baltimore's cathedral or perhaps a neighborhood church in Highlandtown (a part of Baltimore that used to have a sizable German and Polish contingent; today, it's mostly Greek). He partakes of a beer now and then at one of the Highlandtown beer gardens, has a meal once in a while at Haussner's Restaurant on Eastern Avenue, and spends much of his spare time sketching and painting landscapes and the like in Druid Hill or Patterson Park. He's not a big follower of sports, but once in a while goes with a few friends to a minor league Orioles game at the park on Greenmount Avenue. It's likely he never marries.

His obituary warranted perhaps a sixteenth of a page in the Baltimore Sun upon his death at age 74 in 1963, covering his career and night school education for the most part.
 
It really depends on where in Italy and exactly what happens to him in his childhood.

I could see him going anywhere from going back to Germany before WWI, enlisting in a Bavarian regiment and doing similar things to OTL, to dying in a muddy trench to becoming some sort of artist or businessman.
I think he would end up in Bolzano-Bozen...
 
Probably he becomes a reasonably skilled architectural draftsman, working for an architectural / engineering firm, or perhaps a mechanical designer/draftsman working for a major railroad. I'd assume he'd grow up in a city with a sizable German-speaking population, which would suggest Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee, or Cincinnati. I'll go with Baltimore since that's the one I know best, and besides, at the beginning of the 20th century, approximately one-fourth of the population of that town spoke German.

So...he becomes a designer/draftsman in the engineering department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, working his way up slowly, until he's the head of the drafting room by the early 1930s. He takes night school courses at Hopkins during the same period, earning his degree in mechanical engineering. By the mid 1930s, he's promoted to second in command of the engineering department, and becomes the honcho in the early 1940s. He retires at the mandatory age of 65 in 1954.

Outside the office...hard to be sure, but chances are he leads a relatively ascetic life, is a regular at Mass at Baltimore's cathedral or perhaps a neighborhood church in Highlandtown (a part of Baltimore that used to have a sizable German and Polish contingent; today, it's mostly Greek). He partakes of a beer now and then at one of the Highlandtown beer gardens, has a meal once in a while at Haussner's Restaurant on Eastern Avenue, and spends much of his spare time sketching and painting landscapes and the like in Druid Hill or Patterson Park. He's not a big follower of sports, but once in a while goes with a few friends to a minor league Orioles game at the park on Greenmount Avenue. It's likely he never marries.

His obituary warranted perhaps a sixteenth of a page in the Baltimore Sun upon his death at age 74 in 1963, covering his career and night school education for the most part.

This has to be the most pleasant Alternate Hitler I've ever read.
 
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