Poll: Would you time-travel and kill Hitler?
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World war 2 was horrible, and I just watched something on the sonderkommando yesterday that I really wished I hadn't. For those who want to know the Sonderkomando were units of Jews made to empty the gas chambers and put the bodies into the furnaces. I literally could not believe what I was hearing as the one of the few Sonderkommandos who had survived was telling his story.
Im amazed that he is able to function and also stayed sane after what he did, the things that man must have seen and done are mind boggling.
But despite all that the world could have been annihlated completely had a different tyrant risen at the same time.
Im amazed that he is able to function and also stayed sane after what he did, the things that man must have seen and done are mind boggling.
But despite all that the world could have been annihlated completely had a different tyrant risen at the same time.
I wouldn't kill him because of the whole ball-of-timey-wimey-stuff but would have a talk just to see what he was really like.
(Yes I'm sure he's evil but theres probably more than the ranting guy from the films)
(Yes I'm sure he's evil but theres probably more than the ranting guy from the films)
Those advances are medicinal too, and despite the huge numbers that died in world war two, it is nothing compared to the number that modern medicine has either saved or drastically improved.Stormpigeon said:
Also had the nuclear bomb not been invented, the world would continue to fight over the smallest things. Giving everyone the power to destroy anyone else means that no two are going to try to piss each-other off as it will lead to a swift death. So that there is a technological advancement brought about by world war 2 that has saved countless lives.
to the point: I would not risk it for both the reasons above and fear of screwing the time-line up. Badly.
I wouldn't do it
it happened because there was a need for it to happen in the eyes of the germans
not the genocide stuff, that was all hitler and his fuckheaded party
the german people needed another war. they'd lost their empire and were in the recovery of an economic depression caused by the allied nations
if hitler was killed
somebody else would still eventually lead them to war
and besides
the amount of people saved would mean that it's statistically next to impossible i would have been born
the events changed are too drastic for my mum and dad to conceive me at the exact right time again (which would be what was required)
it happened because there was a need for it to happen in the eyes of the germans
not the genocide stuff, that was all hitler and his fuckheaded party
the german people needed another war. they'd lost their empire and were in the recovery of an economic depression caused by the allied nations
if hitler was killed
somebody else would still eventually lead them to war
and besides
the amount of people saved would mean that it's statistically next to impossible i would have been born
the events changed are too drastic for my mum and dad to conceive me at the exact right time again (which would be what was required)
Paradox + It's something we learned a lot from, like human rights and such. I would, however, change the creation process of Israel, because all that fighting is bullcrap.
That's not even the main issue, Germany in itself wasn't that much of a threat. Unless that power vacuum was filled by someone more diplomatically apt who could've gotten more support on their side, namely the Russkies or the Americans, it wouldn't have mattered much, Germany had too much going against it.Pips said:
The bigger issue is the fact that we learned a LOT of things in WW2. Any would-be power freak nowadays can easily be 'identified' as a Hitler-wannabe and taken down before he can do too much harm.
More importantly, we also identified that "nukes are bad, mkay?" and it's something that we identified at quite a low cost, current nuclear power considered (we learned it with the first, weakest weapons). You think 80/120k casualties is a lot? The strongest nuclear weapon at the moment has about 23 times the fireball size of the Fat Man. Imagine using that crap on a big, densely populated city. And that's disregarding the fact that nuclear weapon development slowed down massively after the Cold War and that if we didn't have the experience, we would probably have an even stronger arsenal by now.
Also, due to the fact America used it's nuclear weaponry at the point where it was the only country to have it, there was no nuclear war, which would have been pretty much inevitable in a situation where both powers had a nuclear arsenal and weren't already familiar with their potential.
So yeah, as awful as WW2 was, we could have it a lot worse.
You know what an excellent example is of "what would happen if Hitler was killed" Making History by Stephen Fry 
Awesome book...and it's also the reason I wouldn't kill Hitler.
The void was already there, somebody else would fill it.
Awesome book...and it's also the reason I wouldn't kill Hitler.The void was already there, somebody else would fill it.
Well, I wouldn't need to.
Hitler was assassinated.
Hasn't anyone else seen that documentary called "Inglourious Basterds?"
Hitler was assassinated.
Hasn't anyone else seen that documentary called "Inglourious Basterds?"
No. Outright No. As a historian, I must admit that the rise of Fascism (at least outside of Italy) and the genocide of the Jews would not have occurred if Hitler was alive, the alternatives may have been even worse.
As hard as it sounds, we have to be grateful for what we have and glad that the events of Red Alert aren't happening.
As hard as it sounds, we have to be grateful for what we have and glad that the events of Red Alert aren't happening.
