# What's so fascinating about Hitler what-ifs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711 "2012-10-14T19:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/21 "2012-10-16T23:27:24Z")
You poor sap. Unicorns are a myth! ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/22 "2012-10-16T23:32:19Z")
But… I thought we were talking about the mythical Normandy invasion… Or was it legendary? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/23 "2012-10-16T23:33:05Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > And what username he would have picked? 😃 [**Adolf Hilter**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg) (changed for business reasons). ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/24 "2012-10-17T00:44:31Z")
I don’t know. I can think of various other what if scenarios: What if Charles Martel hadn’t stopped the Muslim invasion of Europe What if the mensheviks had won control of the USSR instead of the bolsheviks. What if Jesus had gone down in history as just another one of the [peripheral messiahs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_messianic_claimants) hanging around Israel 2000 years ago. I assume we do it because the Nazis have become the go to definition of evil and totalitarianism, so the idea that it could’ve been stopped by something relatively minor (like Hitler getting accepted into art school, or the 1932 elections seeing the social democrats not cede as much power to the Nazis, etc) means that hundreds of millions of people would’ve suffered far less. It is basically an example of the [butterfly effect.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/25 "2012-10-17T00:52:45Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > But could the Germans have repelled the Normandy invasion if Hitler had unleashed his trained reserve of Tyrannosaurs at the critical moment? Unfortunately for the Nazis, they were committed to the Eastern front to battle Stalin’s hordes of gorilla-human hybrids. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711/26 "2012-10-17T08:02:23Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > But could the Germans have repelled the Normandy invasion if Hitler had unleashed his trained reserve of Tyrannosaurs at the critical moment? Well, they’d already started messing about with [werewolves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny#Operation_Werwolf_and_surrender) and fed their troops [methamphetamine](http://www.amphetamines.com/nazi.html) in large quantities. Since they were at least notionally cooperating with Japan, I think they would have been far more likely to unleash a horde of ninja-trained meth-crazed werewolves. Possibly wearing monocles and [pickelhabue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickelhaube). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-fascinating-about-hitler-what-ifs/637711.md?page=1)