If I could just go to 1935, I would go to the French frontier with a whistle. When the German troops entered the Rhineland, I’d blow the whistle, which would be identical to the one the lieutenants used. The french army would cross the border, crush the Germans, and Hitler would be overthrown by his own army.
You can put a sterlization pill in the well of his village, to prevent his mother from ever concieving.
Worked in The Liar.
No, really, that exact scenario.
Is going further back in time and picking up Napolean an option? No one can rile up a frenchman for winning wars like Napolean.
For certain values of ‘worked’.
I would say screw you I’m not killing myself and eveybody I know before they’re born. I destroy the time machine because the worst thing that can happen is a government has a time machine to fuck up history.
I would visit him in 1912, & give him $75,000 (1912 money), a boat ticket to South America, & a commission to paint landscapes of all the Mayan/Incan/Aztec ruins.
Full oil paintings.
He wouldn’t be home before the end of WW1.
Wasn’t the US on the gold standard at the time? Doing that in US dollars would pretty much destroy the US National Reserve, wouldn’t it? Thanks a lot, you just shifted the rise of Nazism from Germany to our country!
Go back in time and kill his parents.
If Science Fiction has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t destroy time travel technology where it involves traveling into the past. They’ll just send another copy of it back from the future. There’s an infinite amount of “future”, after all (or so we hope).
In fact this is one of the “proofs” that time travel (into the past) doesn’t exist or isn’t possible. 'Cause if it were, we’d know already from all the future travelers coming back to now or earlier. (Unless they’re really, really good at blending in… :eek: puts on tinfoil hat and underwear)
Go back in time, & pay his father to move to another country.
Hey, the OP said “unlimited funds”. I take that to be poetic license, like the time machine. 
What does preventing WWII do to the US as a super power? Preventing WWI may prevent or put off the Russian revolution. Does Great Britain remain the lone superpower?
Just drop the damn time machine on hime from 10 feet up.
And then steal his shoes to help you get home?
“There’s no place like the Sudetenland… there’s no place like the Sudetenland…”
No you can’t. The OP said your time machine can’t go back beyond 1889. Hitler was born in April 1889 and therefore conceived the previous year.
Likewise you can’t prevent his parents from ever meeting.
But you could prevent them from meeting a second time.
HO! Get me! I’m scorin’ on Hitler.
It wouldn’t be a good idea to prevent WWI. Too many poeples finally got their independence as a result of the war.
Forget Hitler. Go back and give Franz Ferdinand’s driver a map to the Sarajevo hospital.
Stopping Hitler would have only been one slight fringe benefit of that plan.
British Intelligence had amde contact with the german Army COS (General Ludwig Beck); this was in 1936 or so. The german generals wanted two things from the British, in return for which they would order their troops to revolt against the nazi government:
-(1) recognition of the coup leaders as the legitimate government of germany
-(2) British military support of the coup
Sadly, the British waffled-and lost their one (and only) chance to do away with Hitler and the nazis!
Gavrillo Princeps is drowning his sorrows in a beer garden when Ferdinand’s driver stops right in front of him, I believe. At least standing dejected on the street corner.
Buy Princeps a drink. A very strong drink. Get him under the table before the car shows up.
I recently heard a comedian (Louis C.K., maybe?) talking about something just like this. He said he wouldn’t even have to kill Hitler, he’d just rape him as a child, which would give him lifelong depression and self-esteem issues.