Alternate Destinies (Der Führer ist Tot)

In the alternate history of Der Führer ist Tot, several people lived different lives than they did in OTL as a direct result of Adolf Hitler's death in the First World War. Some of our timeline's celebrities and politicians were never famous in this timeline, and vice versa.

Albert Einstein
Dr. Albert Einstein (1879-1941) was a German theoretical physicist and professor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. However, Einstein was a Jew and in Germany when Hugenberg came into power. Einstein attempted to flee from Hugenberg’s growing anti-Semitic policies in 1941, but he was caught and killed.

Joseph Goebbels
Dr. Joseph Goebbels (1897-1966) was a high-ranking member of the DNVP and a prominent leader in Nationalist Germany in the Great World War. Goebbels was a skilled orator and propagandist, and he was responsible for overseeing the production of all propaganda. His publications took a heavy anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist slant. This proved beneficial in the Great World War when his speeches rallied the German people. He joined after becoming upset with Heinrich Himmler's NSDAP.

Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1959) was the leader of the fledgling National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) until it was outlawed in 1938. Himmler took over soon after he joined in 1923. However, he was pedantic and dull, and he wasn’t what the NSDAP needed so the party never really grew beyond fifteen thousand people.

Himmler was very Anti-Semitic. He supported the mass extermination of Jewish people along with other so-called ‘undesirables’. However, Alfred Hugenberg never followed through with Himmler’s suggestions.

Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1918) was an Austrian-born German soldier who was killed in the First World War. He was an unsuccessful artist living in Munich who was rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna twice. Having stayed in Vienna when the anti-Semitic mayor Karl Lueger was in office, Hitler was believed to be an anti-Semite himself. He joined the Bavarian Army at the outbreak of the First World War and was eventually killed outside the French village of Marcoing in the fall of 1918.

Alfred Hugenberg
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Albert Speer
Albert Speer (1905-1981) was a famous German architect who designed several buildings for Nationalist Germany. Despite cooperating with them, Speer personally disagreed with many of their beliefs and was apolitical for most of his life. Following a comment denouncing rampant nationalism in 1944, Speer was arrested and stayed in prison until Nat. Germany’s fall seven years later. He later wrote a book about working with the Hugenberg regime and his arrest. On September 1, 1981, while in London, he died of natural causes.

Matthew Yankovic
Matthew “Weird Matty” Yankovic (born 1959) is an American singer and songwriter, mostly known for his song parodies. The songs are often satires of popular culture as well. Weird Matty is perhaps most well-known for songs such as “Fat”, “The Saga Begins”, and “Amish Paradise”.