Previous Entry Add to Memories Share Next Entry As pointed out
in email Plot holes in World War II   I've long thought you'd
have a damn hard time convincing someone from a parallel
timeline that a random Austrian, who attained the rank of
Corporal in the German Army in World War 1, would go on to be
dictator of Germany a mere 15 years after that war ended.  from
Viv Forbes, "Think Right" (not the first place I found it):  A
conference was held by the German Furniture Manufacturers’ Guild
in Munich in 1928. To help them plan their future the Germans
invited the greatest political prophet in Europe to forecast the
conditions they could expect in 5, 15, 20, and 40 years’ time.
He gave the five year forecast first.      “But in twenty years
from now, in 1948, Munich will be part of a tiny German nation
that stretches only from the Elbe to the Rhine, whose cities are
ruined and whose factory production has been as low as 10% of
the 1928 level. An Iron Curtain will stretch across Europe and
seventeen million Germa