# What decade does it become too risky to use your time machine to kill Hitler?

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**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-decade-does-it-become-too-risky-to-use-your-time-machine-to-kill-hitler/814821 "2018-05-25T19:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-decade-does-it-become-too-risky-to-use-your-time-machine-to-kill-hitler/814821/21 "2018-05-27T03:54:15Z")

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> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> That’s why I specified that he would have to be a unifying leader who could renegotiate better terms for the country, and bring hope again. I said like FDR. This leader works with other world leaders (to the extent possible in a time of international pressures to be isolationist) to effect global changes to help everyone through the Depression. Of course, his interest first is to Germany. End reparations! Rebuild! Jobs at home!

The Weimar system of multi-party parliamentary democracy and the crazy fragmentation of the German electorate made this really unlikely. (Hitler — or rather Hitler’s party — never won a majority nationally. And since all the non-Nazi parties hated the Nazis, he probably would never have won a parliamentary majority.)

Sensible party leaders who were ready to form coalitions would have been more plausible than a single party that could command majority support. I think.

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