![]() ![]() In short, it appears to be a cosmic law that something bad has to go down in the period between 19. After all, if Hitler didn’t rise to power, who’s to say that someone worse wouldn’t replace him? It might also create a new timeline with even more pain and suffering. Your time tripping is ineffective at eliminating the pain and suffering of the original timeline. What are you going back in time for? To bump off some random Austrian housepainter?įurthermore, while killing Grandpa might have a limited “butterfly effect”, killing Hitler would have wider consequences for everyone in the world, even just studying him in school.Īlso, there is the many-worlds idea, where traveling back in time causes a parallel universe to rise, as in that case eliminating Hitler would create a new timeline without Hitler, but the old timeline would also still exist. Similar to the Grandfather Paradox which paradoxically prevents your birth, the Killing Hitler paradox erases your reason for going back in time to kill him. In-story, this may cause any effects from just making nothing that the time traveler does change anything, to completely destroying the universe itself. To do otherwise was to essentially agree with Hitler's beliefs, something that no sane person would even contemplate after 1945.Įven worse, killing Hitler may prevent the assassin from existing in the first place, resulting in a Grandfather Paradox. In addition, if it wasn't for Hitler's nightmarish slaughter of "undesirables" that took place under his leadership, the rest of the world wouldn't have experienced the sort of collective shock upon discovery of the Holocaust that spurred them into beginning the process of purging racist elements from their own nations and colonies. Secondly, even if you do manage to kill him, something as bad or worse might appear in his place: maybe an even worse dictator takes over and actually wins, or maybe the Soviet Union starts the war instead. Locating a lone, disillusioned war veteran wandering around post-WWI Europe is perhaps the ultimate needle-in-a-haystack search. After all, the guy survived about 42 (known) real life assassination attempts - maybe one of them was ( or will have been) yours! Trying to circumvent these by targeting him before his rise to power begins will usually turn out to be ludicrously difficult as well. right?įirst of all, it often proves near-impossible to kill the man in the first place like most dictators, he was protected by various bodyguards and security forces. This would prevent World War II, The Holocaust, and their myriad side-effects. ![]() If you were given the power to travel through time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong, what would you do to prevent the atrocities of the past? For many, the answer is obvious: kill Adolf Hitler. ![]()
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