Fuck the present, I'd kill him. He deserved to die, and I highly doubt that the impending "power vacuum" people keep going on about would be filled by anyone crazier then Hitler himself. Seriously, Hitler was an insane, sadistic, anti-semite. Worse, he was an excellent public speaker. If he'd been killed before taking power then millions of deaths could have been averted.
Yes. However, history books would call it a "suicide."
To be seriously honest, no. Let's face facts: if any one of us had a time machine, we would only use it for our own selfish purposes. Killing a man in the name of good is still wrong, regardless of how justified your motives are.
Okay, people, the OP is asking a hypothetical - clearly the OP is ignoring any physics or time-travel fiction issues. "Blah blah paradox," or "blah blah impossible" comments are not helpful.
On topic: no. But not for any reasons mentioned.
Everyone talking about the war, remember that there was an Axis - three nations. Japan would have still attacked us, so WW2 would still have happened. It could even be argued that the war with Japan would have caused enough tech advancement so we wouldn't be much behind where we are now.
On the other hand, Hitler was the enemy that brought much of the world together. The horrors of WW2 helped shape the international laws that have made peace possible. The fact that some modern nations don't play by these rules doesn't make them any less important.
Other posters have also had some good reasons (Hitler being a dumbass for one, modern technology being another, modern culture being the third) which I also agree with.
Nope, traveling through time to the past is impossible, if it was possible, it would probably destroy the universe when it realized "oh fuck, this thing that happened makes no goddamned sense!"
Forward time travel is totally possible though, and the technology exists today. Ask yourself, if someone accelerates to insane speeds in a spaceship, and they age 1 year while everything else ages 50 years, what is that if not time travel?
No and I find the idea ridiculous. There were social and technological benefits that came out of WW2. And presuming you could time travel why waste it on going back to the 1940s?
Crap, I'm torn between not wanting to fuck up everything, and wanting to be beamed 50 feet above his head and delivering the mother of all drop-kicks on him.
Eh... I guess I wouldn't. As awesome as it would be to drop-kick Hitler to death, too many things could go wrong.
Now before I say this, chances are I will get flamed the ever-loving-shit out of, but I have to state the facts. I will at this juncture, admit that he was one sick bastard for the genocide of many people (and my grandparents, for that matter) but he did also do one thing that is positive.
He helped re-build Germany when the Treaty of Versailles which took much of the country's colonies and resources away from it as well as making it pay an impossible amount of reparations. Then, the Wall Street crash happened in the 1930's. Can you imagine how terrible it would have been in Germany then? as my history teacher described it "The banks were printing vast amounts of money that was worth less than the suitcases used to carry them".
Now I'm not sure about the rest of you, but if I was in Germany at this time I would hate and detest the Allies for making such a terrible situation happen. I'd vote for Hitler because he promised to end such a situation - to get people working and re-build Germany.
Here is how bad it was back then
The total sum of war reparations demanded from Germany?around 226 billion Reichsmarks?was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission. In 1921, it was reduced to 132 billion Reichsmarks at that time then $31.4 billion (US dollars 442 billion in 2011), or £6,6 billion (UK pounds 217 billion in 2011).[3]
It could be seen that the Versailles reparation impositions were partly a reply to the reparations placed upon France by Germany through the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt signed after the Franco-Prussian War; critics[who?] of the Treaty argued that France had been able to pay the reparations (5,000,000,000 francs) within 3 years while the Young Plan of 1929 estimated that German reparations would be paid for a further 59 years, until 1988.[17] Indemnities of the Treaty of Frankfurt were in turn calculated, on the basis of population, as the precise equivalent of the indemnities imposed by Napoleon I on Prussia in 1807.[18]
The Versailles Reparations came in a variety of forms, including coal, steel, intellectual property (eg. the trademark for Aspirin) and agricultural products, in no small part because currency reparations of that order of magnitude would lead to hyperinflation, as actually occurred in post-war Germany (see 1920s German inflation), thus decreasing the benefits to France and the United Kingdom.
Reparations due in the form of coal played a big part in punishing Germany. The Treaty of Versailles declared that Germany was responsible for the destruction of coal mines in Northern France, parts of Belgium, and parts of Italy. Therefore, France was awarded full possession of Germany's coal-bearing Saar basin for a period. Also, Germany was forced to provide France, Belgium, and Italy with millions of tons of coal for ten years. However, under the control of Adolf Hitler, Germany stopped outstanding deliveries of coal within a few years, thus violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.[citation needed]
Germany finally finished paying its reparations of GBP 59.5 million in 2010
tl;dr No I wouldn't, even if he was a complete and utter fuck stick. He helped re-build Germany, even if it was to gear up for war. At least it was in better shape compared to harshness of the aftermath of WW1.
Nope. Don't really feel like having something going wrong with the time machine, leaving me stuck or something! Anyway, it wouldn't be so simple to kill Hitler. I am sure he is going to be well protected.
Probably not. War is a terrible thing, but it also stimulates technological progress. Who knows, if WW2 had never happened, our technology may be something on par with the 50-70's.
Yea I don't think I would have either. Without the Nazi's starting World War 2 it could have been a lot worse. The Soviet Union may have taken advantage of the lack of a superpower in Europe and invaded with their massive army. Without Germany attacking Poland, the Japanese might not have invaded Pearl Harbour meaning that the US may have never entered the war, leaving Communism to run rampant over the entire western world.
Of course it could have gone any millions of ways without Hitler.
An interesting question. I think I fall on the "No" side, for reasons already stated by others. However, I would have no problem going back in time during my current life time and stopping crimes. They are still fresh, and therefore I can't honestly say that they would change the future too much from what I already know.
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