I was playing an old favorite game of mine, which in it's day was renouned for it's historical accuracy. Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time
The game made a lot of sense, including some items that were actually on the ship. Obviously the characters and exact story are fictional, but I'm curious how accurate they were in their statement that the entirety of the world wars was riding on the Titanic journey.
In the game, you are a British secret agent investigating the roots of what will become the Communist Revolution and the Nazi party.
(Spoilers following, it's a really good game.)
It's discovered that their are 4 key items that must be taken from German possession.
The Rubaiyat, a priceless jeweled book to be sold to fund early Nazis. (IRL, this book actually existed and wasn't seen after the disaster)
A notebook containing all members of the Communist Revolution planning
A painting by Adolf Hitler himself with a WWI inavsion plan hidden on it
Jewelry that goes to funding early Communists
According to the game, WW I and II as we know it happened because all four of these items weren't recovered. If only some weren't found, Communists or Nazis would have an upper-hand in the war.
If you complete the mission successfully, with all four items, the Communists are executed and the Nazi party never forms.
Is there any truth to this story? Seems to fit history quite nicely, but I'm no expert, you guys are though.
Were there any actual agents from Britain, Germany, and Russia aboard the ship?
Is it actually true that any items on the Titanic were important keys in history?
Was there really a Communist notebook on board? An original Hitler painting?
If none of that story is actually true or known, and they were just filling in blanks, are there any signs Titanic was connected to WWI that they might've been getting at?
It is all complete fiction, sorry. Titanic's cargo manifest is pretty routine stuff for Southampton-London runs, apart from William Carter's Renault. Titanic has no particular connection to WWI other than in improvements to ship survivability as a consequence of the disaster.