# It's 1933. You're in a room, with Hitler . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 6, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295 "2016-02-06T04:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kamakiri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kamakiri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamakiri)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295/61 "2016-02-09T12:47:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m a former soldier myself, three years younger and quite a bit larger. Plus, he might hate me in general terms, but he won’t be quite as specifically motivated as I am. I think I can take him. > > And I won’t be destroying the timeline - I’ll be creating an alternate, equally legitimate timeline. Just like we all do every day. So that was _you_ meddling with my timeline and preventing that blonde girl from winking at me at the Second Cup this morning. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Kamakiri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kamakiri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamakiri)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295/62 "2016-02-09T12:50:28Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > Who the heck doesn’t carry an Uzi when traveling time!? Israel had not been invented yet, thus, there were no Uzis. But I get the drift. I would have used my iPhone to summon a laser-bearing Zano to waste the entire building. After transporting the hell out of there, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295/63 "2016-02-09T13:05:06Z")
According to Wikipedia, Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler first met in 1929. Geli Raubal died in 1931. Hitler and Riefenstahl first met in 1932, so it’s possible she’d be around in this scenario. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295/64 "2016-02-09T16:57:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And I won’t be destroying the timeline - I’ll be creating an alternate, equally legitimate timeline. Just like we all do every day. OK, but that means that Hitler still killed 6 million Jews in _our_ timeline, as well as having started a war where tens of millions of people got killed. If we’re doing the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, there are of course already countless timelines where Hitler is never born, and countless more timelines where he never gains power. What’s the point of creating one more timeline where he never kills anyone? Other than the personal satisfaction of throttling Hitler, of course. _That_ I can understand. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295/65 "2016-02-10T01:51:51Z")
The seeds of the Third Reich were sown long before Hitler came to power. Without him, someone else would have taken over. I’d still try to kill him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-1933-youre-in-a-room-with-hitler/745295.md?page=3)