Uncle Alf

From Turtledove

"Uncle Alf" is an epistolary short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Alternate Generals II, Baen, 2002. It is set in a timeline where Alfred von Schlieffen survived to personally oversee the successful implimentation of his famous plan for two-front war against France and Russia. Germany wins the brief war in 1914, and fully occupies France and Belgium. When a communist revolution comes in Russia, Germany helps the czar put it down.

The main action of the story itself is set in 1929, as sergeant Adolf Hitler is sent to Lille in pursuit of agitator Jacques Doriot. The narrative is a series of letters from "Uncle Alf" to his niece/lover, Angela Raubal. In these letters, he expresses his frustration with the complacency of the local German officials; his disgust with the "degraded" French; his utter devotion to the Kaiserreich, and; his unrestrained (possibly inappropriate) passion for his beloved Geli.

Note: Despite the shared theme of a quick German victory during World War I, "Uncle Alf" is not set in the same timeline as Curious Notions.