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Point of Divergence
Leo Szilard (originally Leo Spitz, 1898-1964) was a Jewish-born Hungarian and later American physicist and inventor. He was 21 years old when convinced himself that the post-war Hungary was no future for him therefore Szilard left his homeland for Berlin. The young man enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University where he met Albert Einstein, Eugene Wigner and John von Neumann. Szilard received German citizenship in 1930 but was already uneasy about the political situation in the country.

When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. In our timeline he also successfully moved to England, but what would have happened if Nazis had arrested and executed him in 1933? Probably, he never wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.