Tuesday 12 June 2007

What if there were no Hitler....


If Hitler had ended up as a bartender in a Bavarian bar, things would have been totally different.


Post WW1 Germany would be under short-term Chancellors. Some ineffectual, some old. The economy would have been slow and people would still be buying bread with wheelbarrows of deutschmarks. However, the general world ecoonomy would pick up and things would settle. There'll be a somewhat stable government with fairly competent leaders, in the end. Hindenburg would kick the bucket and they'll find some Berchtold-type person (preferbly ex-General with a moustache). And things will flow on as usual. They'll continue producing Porsches and Mercedes Benzes (no Volkswagens though...). Socialist governments and no Berlin Wall. No Cold War even. No Medal of Honour games. Unless some other Hitler-type guy takes the cue and it'll be Heil Klinkerhoffen instead. Because you could argue that the time was ripe for national socialism, remember Mussolini (oh and if there were no Hitler, Italy would be like Franco's Spain, if he played his cards right). There will be no WW2. Stalin was non-expansionist anyway. And no Nuremburg trials.


Hitler becomes one of the most competetive bar-owner in Germany and eventually finds his own lager company, BlondiBeer, with the help of an excellent marketing manager, Josef Goebbels. Hitler marries Eva Braun much earlier than 1945 but they have no children.


1 comment:

blagger said...

hitler was supposed to be a painter. if he didnt fail that entrance exam perhaps the world would be a different.. his paintings are not bad u know.