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This is a collaborative timeline based off some ideas for Points of Divergence that I had that are a bit unconventional but interesting nevertheless. I'd like to take it bit by bit, decade by decade, and have some fun. I want to keep it fairly realistic but keep with the spirit of having POD's of the more unexpected sort.

Here are the first dates to kick this off:

December 21st 1908: After been rejected from art school twice, enduring the passing of his mother one year earlier, and now having learned of his unrequited love Stephanie Isak's engagement to another man, a young Adolf Hitler sits in his apartment and shakes his fist at the ceiling, wondering how this could happen to him. At that moment he hears a knock at the door. When he opens it he discovers a pair of missionaries, who identify themselves as Mormons. After a moment of hesitation, he invites them in.

April 3rd 1909: Adolf Hitler is baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Johann Huber.

November 18th 1909: Adolf Hitler becomes Branch President of the newly established Vienna branch of the LDS Church.

August 4th 1917: Army draftee Henry Darger departs Camp Logan, TX for England as part of the American Expeditionary Forces.

September 20th, 1917: While attending mass, Henry Darger makes the acquaintance of a certain John Tolkien. The two discover a mutual interest in poetry and fiction, and begin a friendship that will continue in written letters following Darger's return to the United States.

December 3rd 1919: Shortly after publishing his first work, Spirits in Bondage, CS Lewis receives a letter from American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft expressing his admiration for the piece and its themes which helped him deal with the institutionalization of his mother. Grateful to have found someone interested in his work, Lewis begins a lasting correspondence with Lovecraft.
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