if you could go back in time.would you kill Hitler as a baby?

Question

or maybe even set hitlers mum up with a date with Mussolini's father..

Answer 1

Nope! I'd go back to the 1700s and machinegun the entire Rothschild family. Then I'd go back to the middle ages and slaughter the usurious goldsmiths whose deceptions made the rise of the banking houses possible.

Answer 2

I'm sure there was a film where people travelled back in time to kill Hitler's parents, yet found that they'd made the situation even worse as someone else just took his place. Personally, I think that there are people just as evil as Hitler in the world today. So you can't just get rid of the individual wrongdoer, it is the social conditions that make their views appealing to a mass audience (giving them power and influence they would not otherwise have had. E.g. you could argue that if the Germans had been treated better after WW1, and were not bitter and angry at their treatment, that Hitler would just have been dismissed by most people as a crackpot) that give the most cause for concern.

Answer 3

interesting experiment! it would certainly be worth a go, wouldn't it? i wonder what the world would be like today if we could take out hitler and others of his ilk. if time travel becomes a reality one day then i'd be up for it. then again, it could have been tried already and the time traveller might well have replaced someone a lot worse with hitler. i know it's hard to imagine anyone more evil than that, but he did loose. what if he had won?
for all we know maybe hitler's mum and mussolini's father did hit it off - in an weirdly alternative reality. now what sort of a nutter would that inconceivable union have produced? maybe that's the one the time traveller bumped off in the first place! perhaps he's been bumping of psychos like that for years, and now...and now he's just simply given up...
and that's the question we have to ask for ourselves, "why has the time traveller given up?"
does human nature contain something so evil that it cannot help but produce hitlers? or, perhaps...? perhaps what ???
in a weirdly alternative reality ( maybe somewhere in the depths of the imagination) what are "you" capable of?

Answer 4

No I would not do either.

There was an episode of TWILIGHT ZONE where a girl went back in time to kill Hitler as a baby. She put a peasant's baby in Baby Hitler's crib and then jumped in the crib with Hitler. However, it turned out that the peasant's baby was the evil man we have heard about. Perhaps if the girl didn't switch the babies, the Hitler we know wouldn't have come to power. It is kind of odd. You'd have to see it.

Answer 5

There were many others who were only too pleased to help Hitler on his road to evil.

Also the people who didn't help their neighbours on the
Night of broken glass, were also guilty.
Where would we stop the killing?

This would make me as bad as Hitler..

How can we tell the path of a child will end in evil?

So, no, I wouldn't.

All we can do now, is make sure this kind of thing never happens again and yet we are still making mistakes...

Answer 6

I am sure many of us would love to go back in time and destroy Hitler but then again we should not mess with the pass because we don't know what would happen.

If Hitler got killed then maybe it would just allow a path for someone even worse than him to take over??

If I could go back in time and change somethings.... maybe I'd adopt Adolf and raise him differently. His father was abusive and that is very likely the reason what made him the way he was.

As a boy, Hitler was whipped almost daily by his father. Years later he told his secretary, "I then resolved never again to cry when my father whipped me. A few days later I had the opportunity of putting my will to the test. My mother, frightened, took refuge in the front of the door. As for me, I counted silently the blows of the stick which lashed my rear end."

From 1905 onward, Hitler lived a Bohemian life on a fatherless child's pension and support from his mother. He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1907 – 1908) due to "unfitness for painting", and was told his abilities lay in the field of architecture. His memoirs reflect a fascination with the subject.

I'd encourage him to express his feelings more also do more painting... as he had a desire to paint when he was younger.

What Hitler did to the Jews was horrific and unforgiveable but it makes you wonder why and what lead he to do this?

His father abused him.... KILL his father! But then again doing what we THINK is right may not always work out the way we want it to turn out.

Just watch "The Butterfly Effect":

Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who suffered severe traumas as a boy (John Patrick Amedori), copes with the pain by blacking out at moments of high stress.

While searching for an answer to heal his emotional wounds, he finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and is able to essentially "redo" parts of his past.

There are consequences of his choices, however, that he then propagates back to the present; his alternate futures vary from frat boy to prisoner to amputee.

As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes always have unintended consequences.

In addition, he needs to go further back in time after every attempt as several fatal mistakes he makes do something to wipe out that and all subsequent journal entries.
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Answer 7

Personally, I wouldn't change anything in history, good or bad. If you think about it, changing anything major and historic in our history as human beings would have a dramatic effect on the future. As a Jew, it IS temping to go back and kill Hitler, but really, without Hitler, our present day would be changed by so many ways. Before you go back and change the past, first be thankful of what you have now.

Answer 8

No, due to the law of cause and effect. If I kill Hitler perhaps all Europe has fallen before in the claws of the communism and Stalin with worse consequences for all.

Answer 9

No, the upbringing that he had would be changed and the phylosophy of life in general about people from all walks of life. Even the 1936 Olympics where he refused to shake hands with the black athlete Jesse Owens who won 2 gold medals.

Answer 10

THe question has always lkacked context and avoids the sad truth that hitler was another idiot in a long line of idiots and was a trigger, not a gun.

symbols of change such as his infamy has become only reflect the times, they dont innovate or direct it.