WI: Hitler's Mother Lives Longer?

Somewhat weird question admittedly, however based on most if not all historical accounts, her death was major psychological turning point in Hitler's life.

While Adolf hated his father Alois vehemently, he is recorded to have adored his mother Klara up to the point of obession.
When she died in 1907 of cancer (age 47) Klara's doctor (who was Jewish) stated that Hitler was most distraught man he'd had ever seen. And it is said that after her death, Hitler could never form real emotional connections anymore.

So say instead Klara was able to survive late into her late 60s - early 70s (1927 - 1935).

Would Hitler still develop his virulent anti-semitism?
Would Hitler still enlist in WWI?
Would this POD butterfly Hitler the Nazi away entirely?
 
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If it was a Jewish doctor who saved her that may alter his views somewhat. Probably marry a cousin, live at home, and end up becoming a 20th century Edgar Allen Poe type but of the painting world.
 
Huge POD. Likely Hitler becomes a second-rank architect nobody remembers.

Strassers/Rohm/Goebbels national-socialism the emphasis on socialism?
 
Adolf would have been a very different person, he would likely never become the crazy nutjob that he eventually did become; and merely remain maybe just a normal racist of the time; probably lives a quiet life and dies in the 1950s.
 
Since Hitler didn't have / couldn't get (IOTL) the proper academic credentials to get into architecture in Vienna, you have to wonder if he might have emigrated elsewhere: say, the Netherlands, or even possibly the US. I could see him bringing his mother, settling in a German community in Buffalo ? Chicago / Cincinnati / St. Louis / Baltimore / St. Paul, and becoming a 9-to-5 technical draftsman, living in near-total obscurity before passing away sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.
 
It makes you wonder how many obscure/forgettable people in OTL could have become world changing figures with a minor POD. :eek:
 
Since Hitler didn't have / couldn't get (IOTL) the proper academic credentials to get into architecture in Vienna, you have to wonder if he might have emigrated elsewhere: say, the Netherlands, or even possibly the US. I could see him bringing his mother, settling in a German community in Buffalo ? Chicago / Cincinnati / St. Louis / Baltimore / St. Paul, and becoming a 9-to-5 technical draftsman, living in near-total obscurity before passing away sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.

Sounds like Norman Bates! :rolleyes:

Joking aside, the thought of what you described is so fascinating.
Imagining a pacified (mama's boy) Hitler is so surreal.

A timeline on this would be great but it's so niche I don't think anyone would read it.
 
Sounds like Norman Bates! :rolleyes:

Joking aside, the thought of what you described is so fascinating.
Imagining a pacified (mama's boy) Hitler is so surreal.

A timeline on this would be great but it's so niche I don't think anyone would read it.

Picking up on this (sort of), back in the late '50s, my father worked with a guy who swore up and down that he knew / had seen Hitler alive and well in Essex, MD (a Baltimore suburb).

So let's imagine this: Hitler and his mother emigrate to the US, choosing Baltimore with its sizable German community. He gets work at what will ultimately become Bethlehem Steel in the engineering offices at the Sparrows Point (MD) plant, rising through the ranks of draftsmen until he something of a minor manager at the time of his retirement at age 65 in 1954. He never marries and pretty much his life outside of work consists of the various beer gardens and German societies Baltimore had about sixty years ago. His passing in (let's say) 1974 merits no more than a standard agate type obituary in the Baltimore Sun, since he had no family in the US, and only distant relatives whom he never met surviving in Europe. He would be remembered by the neighbors in Highlandtown (then, a fairly heavily German / Polish section of the city of Baltimore) as quiet, private, and unassuming--in other words, pretty much forgettable except for the Charlie Chaplin-style mustache and his decreasing-with-time German accent.
 
Have you been reading "The Boys From Brazil"? The death of Hitler's father is seen as such an important event in his life, that all the fathers in that story are murdered. I like the sinister ending to the story!
 
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He could end up enroll in Austrian army, and fight well enough on the southren front that he end up killing a certain Socialist Journalist turned Nationalist member of Italian Army...

Hey, two birds in one stone...

Of course then, someone famous could end up admiring his wartime paintings and bought them, and make Hitler famous as the painter corporal. The Academy of Fine Arts then reconsider his enrollment and we have Hitler the Austrian Dali...
 
Have you been reading "The Boys From Brazil"? The death of Hitler's father is seen as such an important event in his life, that all the fathers in that story are murdered. I like the sinister ending to the story!

Do you think if Alois had lived much longer, this would have effected Hitler in a more profound way?
 
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