h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"distributed world wide and sold well ...then..."

"Then" not later? Was there a chance to print a second ecition but this was not taken so the income dried up and instead of becoming a rich artistic man about town he decided to invade poland?

Hello pebblederook

After the book Hitler rose through the ranks of the National Socialist Party so the missed chance would be something that might have impeded his progress. Good point.

I smell a lead +3

How do you know he did not instead of becoming a rich artistic man about town?

Ang on a mo.......

Wasn't Hitler INVITED to become Chancellor???




GT

Yes he was

But had this evolved that might not have happened

Anything in connection with Corporal Schickelgruber's name change???



GT

No

We have
The book, related events after publication and something that could have changed events

Aha!!

Herr Hitler's Browshirts...

Could they have been outlawed, or membership made illegal???



GT

No gandalfstwin


Its all to do with the book and royalty (not Kings and other such toffs)

A Nobel prize of literature winner can't be Chancellor?

Something else could have prevented that, post 48 is a big hint

You can't be Chancellor if you have another revenue?

No but if you make money ....................

Did he not pay taxes on his royalties from Mein Kampf?

RF

"Did he not pay taxes on his royalties from Mein Kampf?"

What!!!??? If this is true he will really have gone down in my estimation! I hate tax dodgers.

Well done RF he did not pat tax +3 but that alone would not have caused him to miss WWII

Mein Kampf, it sold 9,000 copies in 1925, Hitler's political career pushed the sales to 54,000 in 1930 and 850,000 in 1933, the year he became chancellor. Over the next nine years, the German government purchased six million copies of the work as a copy was given as a gift to every pair of newlyweds in Germany. Hitler earned immense amounts. By 1945, a total of 8 million copies had sold, his royalties have been estimated $1 million per year.

But there is more to come

If he'd been jailed for tax evasion then he wouldn't have been able to rise to power?

RF

He considered moving to Switzerland as a tax exile

if he had been jailed in germany he would have been unable to become chancellor, as he was jailed inaustria it didn't count