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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.
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I like this a lot. The French would have rolled right over the Germans in 1935 and Hitler and the Nazis would have been politically destroyed. I think it’s a much more realiable plan than trying to change Hitler psychologically.
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
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.
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I think Making History is the Stephen Fry book that you actually mean. Yes, the plan worked. But the results were not as expected.
(An excellent book, by the way.)
You could lobotomize or paralyze the young Hitler.
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
You could lobotomize or paralyze the young Hitler.
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You know how to carry out a lobotomy? I’m sure it isn’t as easy as you think.
[QUOTE=Alive At Both Ends]
You know how to carry out a lobotomy? I’m sure it isn’t as easy as you think.
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No, but for Hitler, I’d like to try.
“Walter Freeman lifted the patient’s eyelid and inserted an ice pick-like instrument called a leucotome through a tear duct. A few taps with a surgical hammer breached the bone. Freeman took a position behind the patient’s head, pushed the leucotome about an inch and a half into the frontal lobe of the patient’s brain, and moved the sharp tip back and forth. Then he repeated the process with the other eye socket.”
[Yiddish]And if I slip, I slip.[/Yiddish]
[QUOTE=Alive At Both Ends]
You know how to carry out a lobotomy? I’m sure it isn’t as easy as you think.
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Why? It’s not like it’s brain surgery.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
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!
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Og damn…Cite? Reasons for waffle?
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
You could lobotomize or paralyze the young Hitler.
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See no maiming rule.
Go back to France in August 1914. Somehow sabotage the “Miracle on the Marne”, allowing the Germans to take Paris and end the war by Christmas 1914.
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
Why? It’s not like it’s brain surgery.
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Dammit.
I didn’t think you could upstage my post.
Would the ‘no imprisoning’ rule allow changing the terms of an existing imprisonment?
If so, I’d use the money to bribe the judges in the 1924 Hitler-Ludendorff trial of the participants in the 9 November 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. The object: to change the sentences from Festungshaft (fortress confinement) to Gefängnis or Zuchthaus (normal prison sentences, Zuchthaus being the stricter regime). The difference: Festungshaft was not considered dishonourable. If Hitler, Hess, Göring et al. had served normal prison sentences of the same length as their Festungshaft, their ‘respectable’ supporters would have shunned them as ex-cons.
Join the NSDAP as member 54 or lower (AH was member number 55) and use the unlimited funds at my disposal to bribe enough members of the central committee to nudge the party in a different direction.
Either that, or buy enough rounds on 8 November 1923 to put the storm troopers under the table. The Burgerbraukeller putsch never happens, Hitler is not arrested, he never writes Mein Kampf, and the party, deprived of martyrdom, fades into obscurity.