# What Would Hitler Do?... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520 "2013-11-22T15:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/21 "2013-11-22T23:53:34Z")
Yeah, that’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/22 "2013-11-23T00:53:46Z")
Probably blame Fegelein for something, the poor bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/23 "2013-11-23T03:26:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Speaking personally, I’d annex the Sudetenland. All right, I’ll look the other way this once if you pinkie promise not to annex anything else. After all, everyone needs a little _lebensraum_ now and then, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/24 "2013-11-23T04:03:39Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > All right, I’ll look the other way this once if you pinkie promise not to annex anything else. After all, everyone needs a little _lebensraum_ now and then, amirite? Agreed. Besides, we could use him against the Commies. Sure, he’s a right bastard, but he’s _our_ right bastard, aren’t you Mr. Hitler ? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/25 "2013-11-23T05:06:17Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [This guy?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=696639) Whoa. My wife and I had a houseguest that week, so I missed that one. I’ve only made it through about half of it, but I notice he kept fixating on a “thing” he was saving money for that was necessary to realize his ambitions. Somebody spoil it for me:Was it an orbiting Death Ray? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/26 "2013-11-23T06:14:12Z")
True story: my grandmother was getting all genealogical and shit back in the day. My brother and I were ages about 13 & 12 the summer that Grandmother discovered a connection to Hitler’s maternal ancestors. That became the summer of the Uncle Adolph joke. The conceit was always “maybe he’s alive and well and living in Argentina or something.” “Mommy, Mommy! It’s Uncle Adolph, and look what he’s brought!” A GI Joe and a six man microwave. Soap and molars and lampshades. Some lovely striped pajamas. And leibensraum. (sp?) et cetera. We were odd, nerdy teenagers. That was the same summer that I broke my foot, by way of being trampled by a clumsy horse… perhaps the universe’s way of saying “God doesn’t like ugly.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/27 "2013-11-23T06:33:17Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > And leibensraum. (sp?) No, the Germans fought the war for _lebensraum_ (living room), because they found themselves just too crowded in the den and the kitchen. This discontent led to the Beer Hall Putsch, so called because, even in the Beer Hall, it was very crowded and everybody kept putsching and tschoving. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/28 "2013-11-23T08:41:30Z")
You know who else used to stop people talking about things he didn’t want them talking about? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/29 "2013-11-23T09:02:22Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > You know who else used to stop people talking about things he didn’t want them talking about? :rolleyes: C.S. Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/30 "2013-11-23T10:12:54Z")
Michael Douglas? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/31 "2013-11-23T11:52:38Z")
Church of Scientology? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/32 "2013-11-23T16:40:58Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Church of Scientology? Bite your typing-fingers! You mean the [Church of Happyology](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChurchOfHappyology)! ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/33 "2013-11-23T17:31:17Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > …with all this attention. > > Is there some unwritten rule on the SDMB that there must be at least 2 ongoing discussions about Hitler at any one time? Currently there are 3. > > That fuck gets more press around here than JFK, and frankly I’m sick of hearing about both of them to pretty much the same extent. > > What’s the fascination with that uber sociopath? You aren’t missing a thing. Lots of internet addicts seem to exist in an adolescent Dungeons and Dragons fantasy state, including a love/hate obsession with dictators. IMHO it’s one of the tiresome things about internet culture. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/34 "2013-11-23T17:33:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > C.S. Lewis. Shut up, **BrainGlutton**. :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/35 "2013-11-23T17:43:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > C.S. Lewis. Hey, what’s with the Clive Staples slams lately? He could out-think 99% of all Theists (and many of us here?). On topic, Hitler would’ve sneered at him. BTW, he died 50 years ago yesterday… which is why nobody really noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/36 "2013-11-23T17:53:28Z")
> [@digs](#): > > He could out-think 99% of all Theists You say that like it’s impressive. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/37 "2013-11-23T18:54:49Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Hey, what’s with the Clive Staples slams lately? He could out-think 99% of all Theists (and many of us here?). On topic, Hitler would’ve sneered at him. > > BTW, he died 50 years ago yesterday… which is why nobody really noticed. [Some noticed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707680) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/38 "2013-11-23T19:44:18Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > You say that like it’s impressive. A triple first at Oxford, philosophy tutor, Fellow at Magdalen College - I think he’d kick a mighty lot of ass intellectually, including those atheists who seem to think that merely believing in a God makes the believer automatically retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/39 "2013-11-23T19:50:40Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > You know who else used to stop people talking about things he didn’t want them talking about? :rolleyes: [Rosanne Cash.](https://myspace.com/rosannecash/music/song/just-don-t-talk-about-it-34494687-103249169) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520/40 "2013-11-23T20:00:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Some noticed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707680) Thanks. I missed that thread. Half of it’s a tribute to Huxley and Lewis (I’m ignoring BrainGlutton’s thread-sharting), and the other half’s high-larious: > [@](#): > > Do you believe the official government story about CS Lewis’ death? IMO there’s a lot of unanswered questions [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-hitler-do/674520.md?page=3)