I don't know if the mods will consider this history-related or not...move it however you feel necessary.


On to the question:

If, knowing what you know now, you had the chance to kill Hitler during the Great War, or from 1918-1932, would you?

No. Things hapen for a reason, humans should learn to accept the past understand it and live with it. Not dwell on it as if it could be changed

no, just the basics of time-travel make my head spin. if someone were to go back in time, their mere presence there would alter the course of history causing the timetraveler to disappear and never exist!

No, because of the reasons stated above and also, he would most likely be replaced by a more moderate leader who would know to honor treaties and consolidate gains, making it all that easy for him to conquer the world.

You'd have to be awfully sure that you were actually "improving" history. There's no guarantee that a history without Hitler, but with the same historical forces at play, would not have been worse.

Suppose a nazi-like party takes power, still, but the leadership is not so mired in private battles. Nazi Germany was astoundingly inefficient for much of the war. Do the Germans hang on longer, such that the atomic bombs are used in central Europe. Or perhaps both sides get the bomb, and we get a nuclear second world war. Even if a non-Hitlerian Germany is less anti-Semitic - and it might not be - that might be exchanging the lives of 5 million Jews for 50 million other casualties.

Well- if we are talking about time travel, then why not give it a go? If it doesn't work out you could always go back again and let him live. Paradoxes be dammed I say:)

No- Hitler was not a good general and brought about his own downfall. If someone else lived who could have been a better general, there's no telling what would happen in WWII.

In this case, I go by the saying "the evil you know is better than the evil you don't know."

No. If WW2 never occured the way it did, my mother would never have been born, and, well, that doesn't exactly lead to many good things for me.