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PO2 Robert M.
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Oh, Adolph, you krazy!
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SGT(P) Supply Sergeant (S4)
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Wasn't Hitler rejected twice from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna?

Alternatively, Hitler might have never became a politician if he wasn't discharged from the German Army when it was downsized to 100,000 men.
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Abe Dean
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That Treaty of Versailles thing really set off a lot after WW1, in my opinion.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
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I can't think of the title, but there was a book out that detailed Hitler's "turning point" and he missed a train heading home from his fiasco having his art evaluated. As he was enamored with veterans, there were several grizzled old-timer Chief Petty Officer types that would ride the train he should have taken. The postulation is "what if one of the old Chiefs talked the dejected young Adolph into joining the Navy?"
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Maybe we're thinking of a different book, but the story reminds me of a book called "Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II." The book gives ten scenarios in which Germany wins the war.

The first scenario is called "Little Admiral" by Wade G. Dudley. In this scenario a Senior Chief Petty Officer named Gunther Luck persuades the young Hitler to join the Imperial Germany Navy. Following the end of World War I, Hitler along with Erich Raeder and Karl Donitz fulfill their goal of rebuilding the German Navy to the point of being able to defeat the British's Royal Navy.

The author postulates that the real Hitler mostly ignored the naval theater of the war because he didn't understand the importance of naval power.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
PO3 Donald Murphy
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Yeah - that's the book!
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Abe Dean
Abe Dean
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I have got to check this out. For real. I love alternate history stories, and that one I now know of today.
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