It's 1933. You're in a room, with Hitler . . .

Disregard above, I was mistaken on that point. Sorry.

Is it too late to re-interest him in art? If not painting, maybe musical theatre? I know these fellows, Bialylock and Bloom who have a script that Adolf might really enjoy!

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.

The SS was formed in the mid-20s with Himmler being made Reichsführer-SS in January, 1929.

See Wikipedia.

I did, too late for editing, thus the “disregard”. :slight_smile:

Great, only 19,999,999 Nazis to go.

Sorry, missed that.

I’m good at repetitive tasks.

Possible, certainly. But it probably wouldn’t be as easy as strangling Cheney.

Yeah, but the timeline you’re creating will specifically not have you, or anyone you love in any recognizable form. More importantly, it will not incorporate me.

Also, we might develop peacetime nukes and end up killing more people when another war eventually starts, without the lesson of Japan to rein us in. It’s a roll of the dice.

Go back and shoot Cleamanseu who gave a treaty which humiliated the Germans without successfully disarming them. More effective.

No worries. :slight_smile:

My biggest concern about WWII not playing out as it did is this possibility: Rival countries (could be any combo of the US, Germany, Russia, Japan, etc.) build up nuclear arsenals without really understanding how effective and horrifying they would actually be. The US ended up using two bombs on Japan, and the world collectively said, “That’s to be avoided.” Without that lesson learned (and it was barely learned anyway), there could have been a nuclear war that did much worse damage than what WWII did.

Hitler didn’t directly cause the war between the US and Japan, of course, but it’s a fair question to ask whether the Pacific War would have happened in an otherwise peaceful world.

In your studies, did you come across that whole Russian affair?

Who the heck doesn’t carry an Uzi when traveling time!?

Offer him an Arts Scholarship to a prestigous college. He’d be one of the sane, moderate students, and could finally realise his dream of changing the world through his artworks.

I’d say, “Wow! This is one helluva paint job in here. Who did it? How long did it take? How many coats is this?”

No, I specifically said "just you, dressed in your normal street clothes with no weapons, and Hitler,

It was remarkably hard to express that you and he are alone—if you say “You are alone with Hitler,” do you mean YOU are alone, but Hitler has some people with him?" or do you say “You are both alone,” which is a contradiction, since you’re obviously with each other. But you knew what I meant. Obviously if he had the usual SS guards with him, you’d have been taken out back and shot.

And he would reply, “Wer zur Hölle bist du? Wie zum Teufel bist du hier? Wissen Sie, wer ich bin? Ich werde Sie durch den Hoden aufgehängt , Sie amerikanische stechen!”

And you’d probably thank him very much and reply, “We’ll, I’m allergic to seafood, but I will have some of that nice schnapps, now that you mention it.”

It’s true that he would be unlikely to be by himself. But I’ve heard he was a lazy bastard and took naps all the time—do you think he would take a nap with someone in the room?

And in 1933 I don’t think he knew Eva Prawn yet—he was bonking his underage niece, Geli Rabaul, or that strutting twat, Leni Riefenstahl. But I like the part about the meat hook (apparently he had the generals in the bomb plot filmed swinging from meat hooks and watched the films himself).

This. As much as WW2 was terrible for all involved, there were a huge number of good things that came out of it. Setting aside things like technological advances, the rise of US power, and European unity, I agree that the WW2 experience made a fundamental impression on the global psyche that charted the course of the next 50 years. The problem is that it appears the lesson is starting to fade as each generation gets more removed from it.

Also, there were many ways in which Hitler was just a nincompoop, and I would hate to see someone more competent replace him.