So What If Adolf Hitler Was Accepted By The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna...?
What if Reinhard Heydrich had not be expelled from the Navy because he broke his engagement to Lina Olsten (who had relatives in senior navy command) and discharged in 1931 for "conduct unbecoming to an officer and gentleman"? Ironically he actually married her in Dec of the same year.
Certainly there still would have been a nazi party and certainly they would have played on popular resentment of the Treaty of Versailles, but could they have achieved the same successes in the Reichstag without Hitler who was busy becoming a world famous artist?
If the nazis still managed to achieve popular support could there have been a final solution if Heydrich was just a high ranking officer in the German Navy? Was Goering, Himmler or Goebbels capable of stepping into the breach and accomplishing anything meaningful?
Would the other threat, the German Communist Party have accomplished anything more meaningful than driving Germany's economic challenges to unrecoverable depths?
Would Stalinist Russia have dreamed of world conquest or would they have been content to sit behind their expanded borders and live at the expense of "the people"?
With no Germans and Italians bent on world domination to occupy the military, production capacity and the ire of the western world would Japans expansion policy have been quite as aggressive?
What a different century it might have been if one man became an artist and another fulfilled his dream of a successful navy career. Did millions really die because a vindictive girl dealt with broken promises by ending a mans military career? Did almost the whole of Europe get invaded because Hitler drew buildings well enough but had difficulty with the human form? Would Picasso have also been passed over for admission to The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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