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FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Let’s say you’re right and you’ve prevented the birth of Adolf or altered him to send him to another life trajectory. Who is to say that there wouldn’t be another mad person, naturally a man, who would rise to power and commit similar if not even worse crimes. It’s not only the person that made the fuehrer possible, it’s also everything happening in the world, especially politics at the time. So you’ve bumped Adolf but you’ve created Anton who was similarly radicalized but he wasn’t a landscape painter, he was a physics major and he made Germany develop nuclear weapons much faster. So now you have to go back and disturb Anton’s conception. Which brings about fuehrer Armin and so forth. You might be stuck in a time loop you’ll never be able to stop because you can’t control all the variables.

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throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They told me to “stop hitler” and I technically acomplished the mission. 🤷‍♂️

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- GuyFawkes@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Just following orders?
  
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  - throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Ah… shit… here we go again…
    
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    wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    All you had to do was follow the damn train (to Auschwitz) CJ!
    
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sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Without the Holocaust, there’d have been no international horror over the atrocities of concentration camps, gas chambers, human experimentation, genocide. Anti-Jewish sentiment was rampant around the world.

Progressives made a lot of progress off the back of WWII, and the anti-fascist sentiment in the US that survived until the greatest generation died and their grandchildren took over. It’s entirely possible that, without WWII, the fascism we see in the US today would have happened much earlier, and we’d have run our own concentration camps.

Ironically, the people who probably would have benefited most from preventing “Hitler” would be the modern Palestinians, because without Hitler, Israel would not exist today, and it wouldn’t be carrying out a genocide.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

El. Psy. Congroo.

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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Reminds me a bit of the setting for the Red Alert series of games. Although there they actually go back in time and kill Hitler so different from the scenario in this post but the possible alternate timelines are fun to think about.

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