Would you drown Hitler as an Infant?

[Sublimating]

Imagine that you've somehow tumbled backwards through time and find yourself in the small Austrian village of Braunau just across the border from German Bavaria. You're alone ...well, not quite. You're in the home of an infant Adolf Hitler who's laying swaddled on counter top in the small kitchen, next to him a metal tub filled with warm water. Would you drown Hitler ...?

 

[G.T.]

Well, I'd assume he wasn't alone in his uhh..."Eugenics" endeavor, so drowning him and him alone wouldn't quite solve the problem in my opinion. You'd have to also bitch-smack all of the co-conspirators until death do they part.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Imagine that you've somehow tumbled backwards through time and find yourself in the small Austrian village of Braunau just across the border from German Bavaria. You're alone ...well, not quite. You're in the home of an infant Adolf Hitler who's laying swaddled on counter top in the small kitchen, next to him a metal tub filled with warm water. Would you drown Hitler ...?

No. I wouldn't drown infant Hitler. I might see if I can oversee his upbringing and straighten him out.

 

[Madeline]

Imagine that you've somehow tumbled backwards through time and find yourself in the small Austrian village of Braunau just across the border from German Bavaria. You're alone ...well, not quite. You're in the home of an infant Adolf Hitler who's laying swaddled on counter top in the small kitchen, next to him a metal tub filled with warm water. Would you drown Hitler ...?

I probably would have smothered him rather than drowned him, but I take it that really is not the question.

What I wonder is, without Hitler would Germany have tried to extinguish the Jewish people anyway?

But just to be clear: yes, I'd have burned down the house with everyone in his family trapped inside if that was the only way I could be sure he died.

 

[AllieBaba]

Well that's telling.

You're saying you believe in eugenics. So essentially, you have the same core beliefs as Nazis. The end justifies the means, and those we don't like are less than human. We have the right to butcher them.

 

[AllieBaba]

Would you have drowned Bush as an infant?

How about Christ? Lots of people have died because of God, after all....

 

[Baruch Menachem]

He was not alone. He was the crowning glory of over 60 years of German socialism. He was very much the child of his age.

He got the largest percentage of votes in the last election, his ideas were not (And from what i see here and around) and are not all out of line for socialists in general.

While he was the overall voice of the party, there were better brains than his that carried out most of the real work of his revolution. Most of them, like Heydrich, Boreman, Schaact... have been forgotten.

He was like the rash that shows you have measles. But the disease goes far deeper.

 

[AllieBaba]

And you don't cure evil by using evil methods.

People are so fucking stupid. It boggles the mind.

 

[Sky Dancer]

In order to prevent the Holocaust much more than reforming or drowning Hitler would have been necessary. There were multiple causes and conditions that lead to Germany going crazy.

 

[Sky Dancer]

And you don't cure evil by using evil methods.

People are so stupid. It boggles the mind.

What people are stupid?

 

[AllieBaba]

Specifically Madeline or anyone else who thinks they can fix things by burning down houses with kids in them.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Hitler had heavy karma. I don't know what interventions may have helped him as a child.

 

[konradv]

I hate these time travel questions. What if you killed Hitler and WW II never happened. Your mom's high school sweetheart didn't die in the war, so she never met your dad and you were never born!

SO WHO KILLED HITLER?

 

[Sky Dancer]

He committed suicide.

 

[GHook93]

In order to prevent the Holocaust much more than reforming or drowning Hitler would have been necessary. There were multiple causes and conditions that lead to Germany going crazy.

You never know with your upbring he might have never become a great speech-maker who could rile the crowds. He might have just become an insignificant mad-man.

On a side note: So evil is in your genes. I don't think you could turn him to the straight and narrow. He was too evil and that was in his blood!

 

[Sky Dancer]

In order to prevent the Holocaust much more than reforming or drowning Hitler would have been necessary. There were multiple causes and conditions that lead to Germany going crazy.

You never know with your upbring he might have never become a great speech-maker who could rile the crowds. He might have just become an insignificant mad-man.

On a side note: So evil is in your genes. I don't think you could turn him to the straight and narrow. He was too evil and that was in his blood!

I don't think Hitler's evil was in his blood. It was in his karma.

 

[GHook93]

Imagine that you've somehow tumbled backwards through time and find yourself in the small Austrian village of Braunau just across the border from German Bavaria. You're alone ...well, not quite. You're in the home of an infant Adolf Hitler who's laying swaddled on counter top in the small kitchen, next to him a metal tub filled with warm water. Would you drown Hitler ...?

I saw an outer limits on this. A woman goes back in time and becomes of made of the Hitler family. One of the other Hitler mades is in love with the Papa Hitler. The Woman who goes back in time eventually kills Baby Hitler (murder-suicide), without Papa Hitler knowing. The Made sees the killing, but instead of telling Papa Hitler, she sees a homeless woman with a baby boy, she purchases the little bastard. That little bastard becomes the Monster we all knew and hated!

The premise was this: The woman sent to kill Baby Hitler had mixed fillings of killing a baby. At first she couldn't do it. I will admit people can talk tough of killing a baby (even baby Hitler), but when you hold a helpless baby that task might be much easier said then done. I personally couldn't image even hurting a baby, much less killing one. Nevertheless she did it.

However, without her actions the real Baby Hitler would have never emerged. He would have only been the bastard child of homeless woman.

 

[GHook93]

And you don't cure evil by using evil methods.

People are so fucking stupid. It boggles the mind.

If we didn't cure evil by evil methods we would never go to war to defend ourselves.

Sometimes the line between good and evil are blurred.

What I would be the most frightened of is the consequences. WW II was bad, but there could have been worse things. Say for instance. Hitler didn't come to power and Nazi Germany never rised to its feet. However, Stalin's Russia was well on its way without Hitler. Without WW II the Manhattan Project would have never occurred. Americans were still war wary over WW I. Say Stalin's Russia was the only one working on the bomb and they desired world communist revolution. Say they created the bomb and we didn't. They saw the rich Western countries as the threat and preemptively struck Britian, France, US, Austrialla, Canada and maybe Italy and Germany with nuclear strikes. If there were the sole nuclear superpower, the world would be helpless against them and their only option would be to go along with communist. If the West fell to the Iron Curtain, the world surly would far also. I think that would be far worst then our current course of history.

 

[GHook93]

In order to prevent the Holocaust much more than reforming or drowning Hitler would have been necessary. There were multiple causes and conditions that lead to Germany going crazy.

You never know with your upbring he might have never become a great speech-maker who could rile the crowds. He might have just become an insignificant mad-man.

On a side note: So evil is in your genes. I don't think you could turn him to the straight and narrow. He was too evil and that was in his blood!

I don't think Hitler's evil was in his blood. It was in his karma.

Awe you must be a hippie. I think evil can be brought on by your situation, but I also think some people are born evil and nothing anyone can do can take it away. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Gangis Khan, Mao etc. all fall in the born evil category.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I think if I could kidnap the kid and have him raised elsewhere it might be an interesting discussion. There would still be a Hitler monster running around Germany. It just wouldn't have been Adolf.

A large part of what made the man so monstrous was not his genes, but his up bringing. His father was just as much a monster as he was. A better adoptive parent might have lead to better results.