La part de l'autre

According to Schmitt, "The minute which changed the course of world history" is the moment when a member of the jury of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts uttered the words "Adolf Hitler: Failed".

What would have happened if, on that minute, the jury had accepted and not rejected Adolf Hitler, if it would have fulfilled his artistic ambitions?

That minute would have changed the course of a life, that of the young, shy and passionate Adolf Hitler, but it would also have changed the course of the whole world..." The book includes two parallel scenarios: First, Adolf Hitler's life is described, from October 8, 1908, until his death on April 30, 1945, and also including the consequences and further ramifications of his dictatorship - such as the Cold War, the Partition of Germany and the founding of Israel.

He joined the group surrounding André Breton, turned to surrealism and became a prominent painter within this artistic movement.

He also began a passionate relationship with a French woman, but when she died of illness, Adolf H. abandoned his active artistic career and moved to Berlin where he became an art teacher.

However, in Berlin Adolf H. re-discovered a friend from Paris, Sarah Rubinstein, who has succeeded brilliantly in perfumery.

His son Rembrandt, who had become a famous physicist, worked in the German space program, his daughter Sophie married an American and entered the world of United States cinema.

As the majority of Germans considered that their country's honor has been restored, radical Nationalist groups lost ground.

Though Zionism had many supporters, without a genocide of the Jews and the guilt felt about it, the International Community did not endorse the project of creating a Jewish State.

Rather, the pressure of the Arab population forced the British to stop the immigration of Jews to Palestine, and Zionism went to "the cemetery of failed utopias".

As WWII did not happen, the United States did not achieve a global superpower status, and was considered a rather old-fashioned country.