Let's say Hitler's parents had moved to German East Africa or Southwest Africa - how does this change Hitler from OTL? What effects could there be as a result of this?
Doesn't that make him a German, rather than Austrian citizen? That might give him a leg up, no?Let's say Hitler's parents had moved to German East Africa or Southwest Africa - how does this change Hitler from OTL? What effects could there be as a result of this?
Doesn't that make him a German, rather than Austrian citizen? That might give him a leg up, no?
How much do you think would change?Leg up to do what? His entire life would be completely and unrecognisably different if he was born in Salzburg instead of Braunau am Inn, let alone if he was born in Tanganyika or Namibia.
Yes - either that, or in Tanganyika.Born as the child of settlers in Namibia?
How much do you think would change?
Why? What’s to stop him from moving to Germany when war is eminent and ending up being the postwar Hitler we know?Leg up to do what? His entire life would be completely and unrecognisably different if he was born in Salzburg instead of Braunau am Inn, let alone if he was born in Tanganyika or Namibia.
Why? What’s to stop him from moving to Germany when war is eminent and ending up being the postwar Hitler we know?
If he moves to mainland Germany, he will likely just be the same as he was in our timeline, although being in a different regiment.
That logic only works if there’s something inherent to his path about being born in Austria, as opposed to colonial Germany.Because that's how the butterfly effect works. That's the whole point of posing a "What If" scenario. Changing his place of birth on his Wikipedia infobox and leaving everything else the same does not count as alternate history.
That logic only works if there’s something inherent to his path about being born in Austria, as opposed to colonial Germany.
Why does being born in German Africa instead of Austria butterfly away his joining the German army in WW1, serving on the western front, and then staying in Germany postwar to become Hitler IOTL? He certainly can’t go back to Africa after the war, since Germany’s colonies have been seized by the Wallies.I'm not understanding you. I'm guessing by "inherent" you mean "inevitable", but since we are starting at Hitler's birth there's no such thing as "inevitable" because straight away he's in an environment that is entirely different from the one he was born into in OTL.
What if Hitler had chosen to remain in Africa and fight for German forces there?Why does being born in German Africa instead of Austria butterfly away his joining the German army in WW1, serving on the western front, and then staying in Germany postwar to become Hitler IOTL?
Why does being born in German Africa instead of Austria butterfly away his joining the German army in WW1, serving on the western front, and then staying in Germany postwar to become Hitler IOTL? He certainly can’t go back to Africa after the war, since Germany’s colonies have been seized by the Wallies.
The point is, by having him born in Africa instead of Austria, you are creating limitless probabilities, so much so that the odds of things turning out the same are so miniscule they might as well not even be considered.
Hess's family lived in a villa on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria, and visited Germany often from 1900, staying at their summer home in Reicholdsgrün in the Fichtel Mountains. I doubt that Alios will be able to afford regular trips back to Germany and even less so to a holiday home there.might not butterfly everything away? if his life followed a path similar to Rudolf Hess? (born in Egypt)
What is limitless probabilities? Surely that phrase is contradictory.you are creating limitless probabilities,