If you could travel back in time would you kill hitler as a child?

Question

could you do it?

Answer 1

What?????Are you mad and deprive the World of all his wonderful paintings and sketches. So he was a bit controversial in a few other areas of his life but you can't take away the fact that the boy had talent/

Answer 2

No.

Hitler was a horrible person and committed heinous acts, yes. But, those acts also resulted in a lot of actions around the world. WWII pulled the US out of the depression and anchored it as a super-power. It gave the Jews more power in the world, eventually. The world learned a powerful lesson about the mania a single man can cause, which hopefully we will carry with us into this century. I am not saying that the millions of lives lost were worth all of this knowledge but at the same time, the world would be a VERY different place without him.

Answer 3

No, I'd send a whole army back to the time just before he invaded the UK. Only, this army would have infinitely more advanced weaponry and would crush his pathetic (by comparison) crusade against the world. I mean, if you could travel back in time, you could travel into the future as well and pick up a few war machines before actually going back to Hitler's time.

The UK would not face near-obliteration and would not have to be saved by the American's. We'd win the war totally independently and then cure the world of the Nazi's and save millions of Jews along the way. Then we'd live happily ever after! (It sounds like a fairytale, doesn't it).

Answer 4

This question was asked during a Jack Nicholson film about werewolves, I forget the name of it. Knowing what I do now, no. It is not up to me to decide whether people should live or die, no matter how it could impact the lives of others. Perhaps Hitler was no good, but what if he fathered someone who impacted the world by his actions more positivley than Hitler did negatively. What if several generations later, after we are gone, one of Hitlers bloodline did great deeds. By killing Hitler, you may have done more damage to the future than good. This is why I answer no.

Answer 5

There was a twilight zone episode or outer limits about that.
The woman went back in time to kill hitler when he was a baby. She successfully stole the baby, and jumped into a freezing river with it. The father new his wife would be horribly saddened so he stole a gypsy's baby and passed it off as their own.
The gypsy's baby was Hitler the entire time.
Moral of the story. You can't change the past because you don't know if you have already changed it.

Answer 6

No. Hitler and the Nazis have taught us so many lessons about evil. The world wasn't prepared for their kind. We are more prepared now and that is a good thing. Saddam Hussein was tackled more quickly than he would have been had there been no Hitler.

Answer 7

I am a jew. Steal I admit that something in me admires Hitler. He went so far with what he believed and he dreamt of making a huge change in the world. But I would kill all the idiots that followed him blindly.

Answer 8

Nope. Everybody has the capacity to kill. Been to the poultry section in the supermarket? A century or more ago you had to do that personally. Where do you think the ' Citizen Soldier ' comes from? Next case!

Answer 9

If you can, read the book Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl. There's a great story re: Hitler as a child.

Answer 10

No not really, things turned out fine in the end didn't they?

For all you know we could have skipped out the second world war and gone straight onto nuclear war instead, having not learnt the lessons of how bad war can be from the 2nd world war we would still all be thinking war was great.

Answer 11

well I'm not so much a subscriber to the Great Men of history- as much as Great Movements- so if it wasn't Hitler it would have been someone else. it was going to happen that way (in my opinion) whether or not it was Hitler per se.