Changing History

[AlexanderHowl]

In the Infinite Worlds setting, there are hypothetically an infinite number of Echoes of Homeline (of which only a couple of hundred which have been discovered). What part of history would you want to change and why? What effects would you predict would occur?

My change would be to seduce and marry Johanna Hiedler (the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler) in 1848 before she married Johann Pölz (the maternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler) and immigrate to Canada with her. Without Johanna Hiedler in Austria, Klara Pölz is not born and, with Klara Pölz, Adolf Hitler is not born. Of course, the Echo would probably not diverge for decades, possibly not until 1919 when Adolf Hitler started to come to public attention, but that just means that by the time that anyone figures out that the Echo will shift, it will be far too late to stop that shift from happening.

Of course, the obvious effects will start to occur in 1919, when Adolf Hitler would have returned to Munich. Without Hitler, Eckart would not have had a charismatic and sympathetic military veteran to transform the Thule Society into the Nazi Party. Without the Nazi Party, the Socialists would have probably taken over Germany during the Great Depression.

The Socialists of Germany would have probably assisted the Socialists of Spain against Franco. That would have brought them into conflict with the fascist regimes, which would have them into conflict with the other fascist regimes in Europe (Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, etc). By 1939, I imagine that France, Russia, and the UK would be wondering if they should declare war against a Socialist Germany that was destroying the fascists states of Europe.