History Literature / WebersGermanyTheVeterinarianTotalitarian

[[PointOfDivergence However]], in this timeline, a meddling American named [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E112NoTimeLikeThePast Paul Driscoll]] shoots Hitler in the middle of the Beer Hall ''Putsch'', injuring him just grievously enough for him to dictate ''Literature/MeinKampf'' (called ''Der Deutsche Kampf'' in-universe) to Weber before dying. Weber takes over the Nazi Party after Hitler's death, and eventually the Nazi Party takes over all of Germany - but some things are just noticeably different, and the divergences become full-blown once UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo breaks out...

[[ForWantOfANail However]], in this timeline, a meddling American named [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E112NoTimeLikeThePast Paul Driscoll]] shoots Hitler in the middle of the Beer Hall ''Putsch'', injuring him just grievously enough for him to dictate ''Literature/MeinKampf'' (called ''Der Deutsche Kampf'' in-universe) to Weber before dying. Weber takes over the Nazi Party after Hitler's death, and eventually the Nazi Party takes over all of Germany - but some things are just noticeably different, and the divergences become full-blown once UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo breaks out...

* ForWantOfANail: What if Hitler was killed early in his career, leaving another Nazi, Friedrich Weber, to take up the reins of the Nazi Party?
** Another way at looking at this: [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 what if Paul Driscoll actually managed to shoot Hitler?]]
** Also, the first other major change not arising directly from this divergence is Nikolai Yezhov choosing to blow the lid open on the Great Purge after he'd been declared inessential to the State.

** [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] exists in the Weberverse, as seen [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/webers-germany-the-veterinarian-totalitarian.311095/page-72#post-11487937 here]].

** Unlike OTL, where he committed suicide, [[spoiler:Heinrich Himmler]] is killed in a street brawl.

The primary focus of the timeline is on a certain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Weber_%28veterinarian%29 Friedrich Weber]], who in RealLife was a a scholar in veterinary science who led one of the paramilitary ''Freikorps'' in the early days of the Weimar Republic, joined the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}} Party under UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and involved himself in the Munich Beer Hall ''Putsch'' in November 1923.

** Another way at looking at this: [[Series/TheTwilightZone what if Paul Driscoll actually managed to shoot Hitler?]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Technically, the first divergence is [[Series/TheTwilightZone Paul Driscoll]] choosing to kill Hitler before his rise to power, in an environment where bullets are flying everywhere anyway. He couldn't have predicted that someone ''even worse'' would take the helm.

** Hitler's assassin is directly taken from ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Like... ''directly'' directly.

* ShoutOut: The leader of the ''[[LesCollaborateurs Kameruner Sonderkommando]]'' (and later, the self-declared "Fuhrer of the Cameroonian Empire") is named [[Film/PulpFiction Julius Winfred]]. For the picture of him, the author used a shot of Creator/SamuelLJackson in Nazi uniform from ''Film/TheSpirit''.

The primary focus of the timeline is on a certain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Weber_%28veterinarian%29 Friedrich Weber]], who in RealLife was a a scholar in veterinary science who led one of the paramilitary ''Freikorps'' in the early days of the Weimar Republic, joined the Nazi Party under UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and involved himself in the Munich Beer Hall ''Putsch''.