if you can go back in time, would you kill hitler to stop the holocaust?

Answer 1

I would try. And if I failed, I would at least try to get the US in the war earlier, so less people died. But then again, Hitler would probably have thrown me in a concentration camp.

Answer 2

It's hard to say. I would want to, because so many innocents died during that time, but then I would have to think to myself. What good would it? They say you can't change the past, it's not that you can't change the past, but changing the past could alter the future into something much worse. What if you were able to stop Hitler, and save all those people? Then would Hitler escape and turn his gaze onto another group to berate and murder? What if you were able to kill him? You'd go to jail and someone-there is always SOMEONE-would find a way to take revenge. It may have cause a war anyway, something so much worse than what already happened. Remember, Einstein made the bomb, and he was from Germany. Suppose you change the course of history, but then he never came to the USA? Then what? They could have used his bomb against us, and Pearl Harbor never would have been avenged.
If I could go back in time there's a lot of things I would WANT to change, but I wouldn't, simply because a single grain of rice can tip the scale. I might be causing something so much worse and not even know it.

Answer 3

That question poses a paradox of sorts. If I were to go back and kill Hitler now, the Holocaust would never have happened, and I would have never needed to go back and kill him. Therefore, if I did not go back and kill him, the Holocaust would have happened, and I would want to. And on and on in circles.

However, if I lived during that time and saw it happening, I would do everything in my power to put an end to it.

Answer 4

There is a theory that We shoud have NOT stoped Hitler because Hitler was also against Communism, thus had Hitler devoted his attention to Russia at tht time, we would be in Cuba now enjoying this web-site and N.Korea would not have fired those missliles. Change time? Too deep better to learn from the past

Answer 5

Hitler could not exist in a vaccum. He could only do what he did because millions of people followed him. German and Europe as a whole had a LOT of blatant anti-Semitism until recently. So if Hitler did not come to power, how do you know that some other leader wouldn't give expression to the endfemic anti-Semitism in that society?

Martin Luther wrote a book, "On the Jews and their Lies" that prefigures the Final Solution. Perhaps if you killed HIM, Germany would not have been so anti-Semitic.

Answer 6

Time travel in the negative direction is impossible. We know this from E=mc^2. So this is completely hypothetical and therefore any answers are futile. So here is my futile contribution. I would not stop Hitler, because we learned too much from what he did. If you stop Hitler, then later we would make the same mistakes with a potentially more evil and dangerous competitor.

Answer 7

I'd like to begin by I feel terrible for the holocaust ever happening. and I also Love the Jew's like the brothers and sisters. But it was part of God's plan. it's something that shouldn't be changed. it was one of the events that caused a mass migration of Jewish to their God given land. For any Jews who read this I mean no offense. I love you and God be with you

Answer 8

That's a heavy question. You always hear/see stories of people who get the chance to change something and it turning out worse then before. I would say yes regardless. The people who lost their live's for no reason deserved much better.

Answer 9

You do realize, Hitler was only one man. Killing him would undoubtably (sp?) solve nothing. The real power was in his followers.
Besides, I don't believe in the death penalty. For anyone.
But kidnap and torture, perhaps?

Answer 10

I don't know because what if someone worse than hitler came around???