Alternate Destinies (Age of Kings)

Alternate Destinies is an article to list and describe the lives of important figures in OTL (Our Timeline) who are not important enough to merit their own pages in Age of Kings.

Hitler, Adolf
Adolf Hitler, (20 April 1889 – 14 January 1941), was a German soldier and politician. Born in Austria-Hungary, the young Hitler was poor and did not complete all of his education. He attempted to join the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna but was rejected twice. Rejecting a career in architecture, Hitler moved to Munich, Bavaria in 1913. When World War I broke out, Hitler joined the German army and served on the Western Front, where he was wounded in action. After the war, he remained in the army as he had no obvious career paths. Following the bloodshed of the war and little obvious gain, Hitler soon turned against the Social Democratic government and other perceived weaknesses in the German state. Hitler resigned from the military in 1923 to join the German National People's Party, a more right-leaning party than the main German People's Party. The Great Depression and Hitler's oratory skills propelled him to the Reichstag in 1931, where he railed against the Social Democratic government of Otto Wels and blamed ethnic minorities, especially Poles, for Germany's misfortunes. When World War II broke out Hitler returned to Munich to support the war effort. In defiance of shelter codes meant to protect nobles and politicians, Hitler remained above ground during a French air raid and was killed. While he was remembered in Bavaria as a martyr for the war effort, modern public perception has soured for his views on Social Democrats and minorities.

Semyonov, Grigory Mikhaylovich
Ataman Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, (25 September 25 1890 – August 30 1946), was a White Russian soldier and effective dictator of Mongolia from 1919 to 1921. He was born in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia. His father was of partial Buryat descent and as a result of his upbringing Semyonov was fluent in Mongolian and Buryat. He joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1908 and graduated from Orenburg Military School in 1911. He was commissioned as a Cossack ensign and distinguished himself in combat against German and Austro-Hungarian forces during World War I. He was somewhat of an outsider among his fellow officers because of his ethnicity. While serving he met Baron Ungern-Sternberg, another officer generally shunned by their peers. When the Russian Civil War broke out, the two men swore allegiance to the White cause and traveled to Siberia to raise Buryat units. In 1918 Semyonov gained control over the State of Buryat-Mongolia and crossed over into Mongolia the following year. He quickly gained control over the Bogd Khan and declared a "Great Mongolian State" by merging Buryat-Mongolia with Mongolia. Fearful of his power and angry with his brutal troops, the Bogd Khan and many Mongolians conspired with the Soviets to overthrow him. In 1921 he was forced to flee the country and set up one of two Mongolian governments-in-exile in Harbin, Manchuria, where he unsuccessfully tried to gain Manchurian, White Russian, and Japanese support for an invasion of Mongolia. In the aftermath of World War II, the Manchurian government, under pressure from the Soviets, deported him to Mongolia, where he was executed for counterrevolutionary and war crimes.