Current Events > If you went back in time to 1946, would you kill Hitler?

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There might be too many changes to history to even contemplate what would happen.

would i know where in south america he was hiding out?

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Edit: oh you got me lmao

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It's quite possible more people would never be born than the number that died in the war. Preventing ww2 is possibly one of the most dramatic changes to the timeline you could make

would i be trained enough to even get close to him? what about my equipment?

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This is a good topic
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Pretty clear he had handlers, people above him that tried to pull off the wild idea of world domination


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Complete_Idi0t posted...

There might be too many changes to history to even contemplate what would happen.

like I wouldnt be able to go back in time or I already went back in time or I wasnt born or you werent born and didnt make this topic or Ashton never stepped on the butterfly?

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Btw some of his own people ended up attempting to assassinate him at least 2 times. They realized he was going too far. But they kept fucking up the plan. I wonder how history would have gone had they succeeded

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killing hitler would not work because if anyone killed hitler ww2 would never happen and with no ww2 there would be no reason to go back in time to kill anyone

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These topics always remind me of an amusing short story that I read on the internet long ago. It was a conversational story about somebody becoming a time traveler and immediately deciding to go back in time to kill Hitler, and then the rest of the time travelers talking about how fucking annoying it is that every new time traveler immediately tries to go and do something that will result in time travel never being created and the rest of them have to keep stopping it and saving Hitler over and over again.

Zikten posted...

Btw some of his own people ended up attempting to assassinate him at least 2 times. They realized he was going too far. But they kept fucking up the plan. I wonder how history would have gone had they succeeded

It's funny because if the Pope survives one assassination attempt then people will say he is blessed by God, well then what the fuck do you call Hitler surviving 42 assassination attempts?

Anyway if time travel is even possible, we have no idea how it works. Do you create a seperate branch like the MCU that is its own reality? Is it like Back to the Future where what happens in the past now effects the future so you can erase things? Is it like The Time Machine where if you go back in the past to change an event from your present it would mean you then have no reason to go back in time and thus nothing really changes at all?

We have no idea what, if anything, would actually happen. But if you could change anything you would literally be erasing billions from existence. No Hitler and WWII means no baby boomers and their children and their children's children. The population of the world now is around ten times what it was pre WWII. Not to mention the massive technological advancements that were a direct result of the war. There would be no computers or internet to debate this on.

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What if I became Hitler??

I think 90% of the people in this topic dont realize that hitler was dead by 1946 >_>

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Gamerguymass posted...

But if you could change anything you would literally be erasing billions from existence. No Hitler and WWII means no baby boomers and their children and their children's children. The population of the world now is around ten times what it was pre WWII. Not to mention the massive technological advancements that were a direct result of the war. There would be no computers or internet to debate this on.

That's all working on the assumption that some alternate series of events wouldn't have happened to spur a similar population and technology boom. It's almost impossible to even speculate

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So ummmm.....Hitler was already dead in 46.

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Gamerguymass posted...

It's funny because if the Pope survives one assassination attempt then people will say he is blessed by God, well then what the fuck do you call Hitler surviving 42 assassination attempts?

I mean, the Nazi daggers were inscribed with text that translates to: God is With Us

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ScazarMeltex posted...

So ummmm.....Hitler was already dead in 46.

shhh shhh just let it happen

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Zikten posted...

It's quite possible more people would never be born than the number that died in the war. Preventing ww2 is possibly one of the most dramatic changes to the timeline you could make

To be fair other people would be created.
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Flauros posted...

I think 90% of the people in this topic dont realize that hitler was dead by 1946 >_>

I admit I didn't notice the specific year or I skimmed over it initially

IMNOTRAGED posted...

That's all working on the assumption that some alternate series of events wouldn't have happened to spur a similar population and technology boom. It's almost impossible to even speculate

Except war always leads to jumps in technology. This is true for almost any time period. Nearly the entire modern world can be traced back directly to inventions that happened during or as a result of WWII. The same happens with population explosions after wars. Because the soldiers come home and fuck like rabbits. There's a reason they are called Boomers, because the baby boom after WWII resulted in the biggest generation the world had ever seen, only to be surpassed by their own children, Millenials. Its doubtful any event other then a global war would have resulted in such a population explosion. The world population doubled in less then 30 years after the war. It tripled within 50. Without the Baby Boomer generation it would never have grown that fast.

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Zikten posted...

I admit I didn't notice the specific year or I skimmed over it initially

i did too but yes going back to 1946 wouldnt do anything because Hitler died in 1945

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but what if i go back on time to 1946, and another time traveler beat me to the punch by killing Hitler in April 30th 1945?

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Is it right to kill someone before he did the crime

Gamerguymass posted...

It's funny because if the Pope survives one assassination attempt then people will say he is blessed by God, well then what the fuck do you call Hitler surviving 42 assassination attempts?

holy crap, GameFAQs compression is horrible.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

So ummmm.....Hitler was already dead in 46.

point and laugh

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I already did

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