"Adelaide Hitler" - would a female-born Adolf touch history?

[Natalie Sinead]

There's a thread on one of the Other Places about how things would have gone if Hitler had been born anatomically a girl (and had a female gender identity in this alternate world).



"Adelaide" wouldn't be serving in WWI except as a nurse unless she does a Bob from Blackadder, and isn't found out.



Someone did a "Lenin born female" once and many of the same things apply. Adelaide would be like Liesl from "The Sound of Music" in that she'd be expected to be all dresses and jewelry and perfume in the "pretty princesses and feathered hats" world of turn of the century Europe and to marry a nice young man from the next town over.

[John Green]

Hitler was brutally beaten by his putative father,Alois. Possibly, there would have been sexual abuse had he been a girl.

His childhood and youth were a mess,but there's no reason to believe that he was born,rather than made,evil. A female Hitler would have had fewer opportunities for wracking the world in adulthood.

"Bloch said that Hitler’s most striking feature was his love for his mother: “While Hitler was not a mother’s boy in the usual sense, I never witnessed a closer attachment. Their love had been mutual. Klara Hitler adored her son. She allowed him his own way whenever possible. However, Bloch expressly denies the claim that Hitler’s love for his mother was pathological.

In his memory, Hitler was the “saddest man I had ever seen” when he was informed about his mother’s imminent death. He remembered Klara Hitler, as a very “pious and kind” woman. “Sie würde sich im Grabe herumdrehen, wenn sie wüsste, was aus ihm geworden ist.” (“She would turn in her grave if she knew what became of him.”).

In 1908 Hitler wrote Bloch a postcard assuring him of his gratitude and reverence which he expressed with handmade gifts, as for example, a large wall painting. Even in 1937, Hitler inquired about Bloch’s well-being and called him an “Edeljude” (“noble Jew”). Bloch also apparently had a special fondness for the Hitler family which was to serve him well in the future.

In 1938 Bloch wrote a letter to Hitler asking for help and was as a consequence put under special protection by the Gestapo. He was the only Jew in Linz with this status." www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/13/eduard-bloch-the-incredible-story-of-the-jewish-doctor-who-happened-to-be-the-physician-of-adolf-hitlers-family/

I hate it when people say the so-and-so "should have been strangled at birth",when it's the parents and circumstances which do so much to make the man (and woman).

[RWels]

There was a nazi party before hitler, and it was the unique circumstances that carried them forward. Although events aren't determined as the only possible outcome, it's equally foolish to believe removing one person would change much. (Well, Henry VIII, perhaps.) Hypothetically removing someone might change some aspects, but that could also be for the worse.