Ideas 1901-1949

• 1909: Hitler gets rejected/accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • Standard: Adolf Hitler is rejected a second time by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which starts him on his road to becoming a politician.
  • Event: The second time he applies, Adolf Hitler is accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna after their Dean of Admissions is replaced suddenly and unexpectedly.
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• 1920: Prohibition / Corn Syrup Disaster
  • Standard: Prohibition begins in the United States.
  • If: Corn Syrup! (1830) - Corn Syrup Disaster claims 31 lives.
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• 1938: LSD Discovered / LSD Not Discovered
  • Standard: LSD first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in the Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
  • (26): LSD Not Discovered: Nothing much to report here. Triggers (31) and (39).
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• 1945
  • Standard: The Nuremburg Trials begin, in which German officials are tried for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity following WWII.
  • If Maria Schicklgruber kills herself (1807): Hermann Göring, head of the Third Reich and Chancellor of Germany, captured by US forces in Berlin.
  • If Hitler accepted to art school (1909): Reknowned artist Adolf Hitler sentenced to life in the Nuremberg Trials for creating anti-semitic propaganda posters.
  • If Maria Schicklgruber kills herself (1807) and Hitler accepted to art school (1909): Reknowned artist Adolf Hitler's opposition to German Antisemitism is a major factor in the allies lenient treatment of German officials following WWII. He then moves to Long Island, New York, to found abstract expressionism with his friend Jackson Pollock.
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