# Short stories with Adolf Hitler as the good guy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573 "2014-09-05T12:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573/21 "2014-09-08T00:43:12Z")
I did write a short story called “Saving Hitler,” in which the hero has to keep a time traveler from killing Adolph. _Analog_ once published “The Plot to Save Hitler” (which is the reason my story was rejected by them – it was published elsewhere, thought). ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573/22 "2014-09-08T11:44:31Z")
[And there’s always WikiHistory](http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory) Hitler isn’t so much “good” but… ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573/23 "2014-09-27T03:41:50Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > In Chuck Klosterman’s book _I Wear the Black Hat_, a collection of essays about villains, talks some about how Hitler is depicted in pop culture. “Hitler is still a historical figure, but he’s predominantly a placeholder for cognitive darkness; he’s the entity we use in the same way people once employed the devil.” It’s possible to have a work of pop culture where the devil, Judas, or pretty much any other traditional villain is depicted as sympathetic, misunderstood, or at least wickedly charming, but Closterman argues that this just can’t be done with Hitler, at least not in mainstream pop culture. Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun managed to pull it off it in their [Charley’s War: Hitler’s Youth](http://www.amazon.com/Charleys-War-Vol-Hitlers-Youth/dp/0857682997) strip, first published in 1983 and collected a few years ago in trade paperback. Hitler is shown as a young corporal in the German trenches, patriotic to the point of fanaticism but equally a brave soldier and a fellow human being suffering the dreadful privations of an awful, pointless war. Given that Thatcher-era Mills was about as left-wing as they get, it was a pretty remarkable piece of writing, and [Joe Colquhoun’s art is still as evocative as ever.](http://old.brokenfrontier.com/userfiles/images/lowdown/2012/04_apr/TUCharleysWar2_0412.jpg) How often have you seen a young frightened Hitler? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573/24 "2014-09-27T04:36:10Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Are there any short stories that like the “Case For the Empire” article which showed the Emperor toi be the good guy in the Star Wars series, takes the historic facts as they are known and creates a narrative whereby Adolf Hitler is a good guy? > > I’m sure there’s lots written by Nazi sympathisers who genuinely belive AH is a heroic figure, but that’s not what I’m interested in; I am looking for something more in keeping with “Case For The Empire” where the author is aware that _in the real world_ Hiter was a monsterous evil but is playing with a “what-if” scenario where Hitler is somehow doing good. Well, considering Hitler’s views on Jews and Bolsheviks and their essential identity, that’s kind of a tall order. Only [Pat Buchanan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Hitler_and_the_Unnecessary_War) or [Francis Parker Yockey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Parker_Yockey) can offer you such fiction (only, they don’t **know** it’s fiction). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-stories-with-adolf-hitler-as-the-good-guy/697573.md?page=1)