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.
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.
You know how to carry out a lobotomy? I’m sure it isn’t as easy as you think.
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]
Why? It’s not like it’s brain surgery.
Og damn…Cite? Reasons for waffle?
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.
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.