Non-Parallellism in TL-191
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This rarely gets mentioned :
Featherston's Over Open Sights gets published only after his ascent to power and isn't as pervasive among his own supporters as OTL's Mein Kampf. Maybe it's because it would be less believable to copy OTL, since Featherston's homeland shares the same language with its arch enemy. And unlike a certain choleric Austrian painter, Featherston is pretty much self-taught and not from a very wealthy background.
Featherston's Over Open Sights gets published only after his ascent to power and isn't as pervasive among his own supporters as OTL's Mein Kampf. Maybe it's because it would be less believable to copy OTL, since Featherston's homeland shares the same language with its arch enemy. And unlike a certain choleric Austrian painter, Featherston is pretty much self-taught and not from a very wealthy background.
Seems like a bit too much heavy thinking. Not to mention the fact that they're vastly different ages.
Which certain Austrian painter came from a very wealthy background? Certainly not the son of a civil servant of the empire who had been born into a peasant family and died a failed farmer?
He also rails massively against the Confederate Establishment, almost all of the vitriol being aimed at the War Department.
Given that most of the speeches he gave were obviously anti-black rants I don't see why he would choose to thinly disguise it in his book.
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Featherston is not a Hitler-copy, just another dictator that did a infamous industrial genocide. His rise is significantly different.
His rage, unlike Hitler's shouts, was cold and deadly.
His rage, unlike Hitler's shouts, was cold and deadly.
Sean Mulligan
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Featherston actually cared for the rights of soldiers while Hitler only liked them as canon fodder and refused to meet with wounded soldiers. Also, while Featherston was opposed by the Confederate aristocracy who he hated as well, Hitler received heavy financial support from the German elite and partial support or at least neutrality from much of the German aristocracy. Wilhelm II eldest son the crown prince and one of Wilhelm's other sons August Wilhelm both supported the Nazis for a while.
MarshalBraginsky
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Also, Featherston's rank while he was in the Army was Sergenat, while Hitler only got promoted to Corporal.
Technically, Hitler was a gefreiter, which is something like a senior private.
Another Featherston-Hitler compare-and-contrast -- Featherston was a professional soldier who joined the military in peacetime and was part pf a prestigious regular army unit, whereas Hitler was a wartime volunteer who was placed in a reserve division created well after the war had started.
MarshalBraginsky
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Did Featherston won any nedals? If so, then what was it and if not, then I guess Hitler may have an edge over his ATL counterpart in terms of military life.
Nobody's going to give the man who indirectly contributed to the death of Jeb Stuart's grandson any medal.
And Hitler certainly did have it better, getting to fight his war at regimental HQ while Featherston could see his enemies over open sights.
Between this, and all the other Hitler/Featherston comparisons that've just been listed, I just have to comment: isn't it funny how the fictional genocidal racist dictator was, at the end of the day, more respectable and humanistic (at least, as far as genocidal racist dictators can be; you know what I mean); while his real-life counterpart was the more miserable, impossible-to-be-around, uptight irredeemable waste of a human life who more closely resembled a pure evil, one-dimensional comic book-style villain? Truth is stranger than fiction.
Snake Featherston
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Not to mention that Hitler never actually saw the Front and tended to leave the war in his hands when he was too far to adequately lead but too distrusting of his own generals to let them do their thing. Featherston by contrast trusted his generals rather more and as a result they seem on the whole to have trusted him more, also. Featherston also recognized that PTSD existed, the Nazi regime of OTL did not, and treated it as cowardice and worthy of being shot (which the USSR also did).
Snake Featherston
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An even more obvious one-Featherston was a CS citizen descended from someone attached to a lower rung of the traditional structure, but still traditional. Hitler was an illegal immigrant who served in the Bavarian Army for dislike of the regime he grew up in and due to his Pan-Germanic ideology and did not become a German citizen until the 1930s.
Yeah. I really can't picture Hitler patching up a soldier's wound in the middle of a battlefield.
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