Would you kill baby Hitler?

[Thundercrack85]

Wouldn't/Couldn't the Germans just fund and smuggle weapons to rebel groups like the KKK in the Southern States in order to destabilize US as a whole instead of just trying to invade.

The second Ku Klux Klan wasn't a strictly Southern organization. One of the most powerful branches of the second Klan was actually the Indiana Klan. 250,000 members. They basically controlled the state for a while.

But on the national scene, the Klan had lost most of its political clout by the late 1930's. Most of the South – dominated by Democrats – actually supported FDR anyway.

There just weren't any secessionists groups in the United States in the 1930's. The worst you had were a handful of Communists, and some angry businessmen who fantasized about getting rid of FDR.

 

[Mightmitenot]

There just weren't any secessionists groups in the United States in the 1930's. The worst you had were a handful of Communists, and some angry businessmen who fantasized about getting rid of FDR.

General Butler might disagree with you here.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Read what you quoted.

 

[-Arya-]

if you went back kidnapped him as a baby an brought him to our time to raise him...

do you think he would turn out better or worth ?

Probably better to be completely honest.

 

[Mightmitenot]

Read what you quoted.

How about if I quote what I read?

In 1933, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time.

 

[Octoberist]

I wouldn't. It would radically change everything in the timeline. Good and bad.

 

[warhorse78]

I'd have to say no, because for the simple fact that without Hitler's action existing, I wouldn't be here. Most of my family came over during Hitler's reign, simply to get away from him.

 

[hippie_hunter]

How about if I quote what I read?

But it sums up what Thundercrack said:

The worst you had were a handful of Communists, and some angry businessmen who fantasized about getting rid of FDR.

It was never something to be taken seriously.

 

[dude stannis]

No. I'd leave him as is. Who knows how that would affect the circumstances of my ancestors differently.

But I would clone him and raise him as my own child, teaching him not to be an ass, and eventually have him become an elected official so he can make all the trains run on time.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Nope...I'd tell him just to stick with his art.

 

[Urich Leeds]

If I could go back in time, and encounter baby hitler, I woudn't kill him. Id just ensure that he could never become what we know he does.

There are ways to do that without killing him.

That said, changing the fate of such a pivotal figure in history would alter the world in too radical a way. Doing that would probably keep a significant number of the people born since the 30s/40s from being born.

 

[terry78]

If I could go back in time, and encounter baby hitler, I woudn't kill him. Id just ensure that he could never become what we know he does.

There are ways to do that without killing him.

Sure, take the boring route.

 

[Thundercrack85]

There's actually an even more boring, less bloody route. Just go back to the 19th century, when Hitler's dad tried to change his family name from Shicklegruber to Hitler, and bribe the judge not to let him change his name.

Who the hell is going to follow a guy named Adolf Schicklgruber?

 

[terry78]

Someone else brought up alternate universe stuff on a Man in the High Castle message board and discussed other stuff like JFK not being assassinated and what not. A lot of people throughout history that got killed actually galvanized a lot of change throughout the centuries, so in some instances it was probably a greater good.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Anyone else watching Hunting Hitler on History channel?

 

[Schlosser85]

There's actually an even more boring, less bloody route. Just go back to the 19th century, when Hitler's dad tried to change his family name from Shicklegruber to Hitler, and bribe the judge not to let him change his name.

Who the hell is going to follow a guy named Adolf Schicklgruber?

"Heil Schicklgruber" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

 

[Pink Ranger]

There's actually an even more boring, less bloody route. Just go back to the 19th century, when Hitler's dad tried to change his family name from Shicklegruber to Hitler, and bribe the judge not to let him change his name.

Who the hell is going to follow a guy named Adolf Schicklgruber?

Yeah, but then young Adolf could just change his name to something even more catchy, like Adolf Diesel, Adolf Statham or Adolf "The Rock" Johnson.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I'll admit, I'd vote for Adolf "The Rock" Johnson.

 

[dude stannis]

Or Adolph Lundgren?

 

[Roose Bolton]

Him most of all. His Krieg would be the most glorious that the planet has ever born witness to.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, but then young Adolf could just change his name to something even more catchy, like Adolf Diesel, Adolf Statham or Adolf "The Rock" Johnson.

Adolf Winfrey.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Go back in time and persuade him into changing it to Oprah. Keep it simple.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Adolf Winfrey.

Go back in time and persuade him into changing it to Oprah. Keep it simple.

How many kinds of wrong is it that the first thing that pops into my head is a horde of Aryan soldiers goose-stepping down the street to this song?

 

[Guts]

Instead of going back in time to kill someone, who would you go back in time to have sex with?

 

[terry78]

......Hitler?