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).
Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun managed to pull it off it in their Charley’s War: Hitler’s Youth 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. How often have you seen a young frightened Hitler?
Well, considering Hitler’s views on Jews and Bolsheviks and their essential identity, that’s kind of a tall order. Only Pat Buchanan or Francis Parker Yockey can offer you such fiction (only, they don’t know it’s fiction).
