Before I start, this is a purely SF / alt-history exercise. I'm not proposing in all seriousness that time travel is possible, nor that something like this has actually happened. So, you know, no need for this to go into the technology forum ;)
So, anyway, the general consensus seems to be that if you had a time travel machine, you should go kill Hitler. (Ignoring less obvious solutions such as pay for him to take more art lessons and find him a job drawing cartoons for Disney in America.) Meanwhile in Hollywood land, everyone who ever deliberately traveled in time to WW2 and did anything at all about the war, seems to have invariably given Hitler ramjet drives and disruptor cannons for his planes, or such.
But I'm thinking, what if RL were a branch where something entirely different has happened. Namely, it's not hard to notice that Hitler had the luck to avoid an amazing list of plots against him, by either having an explosive device moved, cancelling a speech early, disallowing aides to a conference at the last minute, or having a specific train car of new SS uniforms bombed so the guy who wanted to kill him didn't have to come model them any more. So what if the folks with time machines actually repeatedly SAVED Hitler from all those plots?
Why, especially knowing he'd lose anyway? Good question. The only thing that comes to mind is that history might have gotten even worse if someone did kill him, instead of letting Germany be decisively defeated.
Feel free to post your own scenarios as to how an alt history where Hitler dies at some specific point could turn out less fun than the one with him. Or really any other reason to save him.
So, anyway, the general consensus seems to be that if you had a time travel machine, you should go kill Hitler. (Ignoring less obvious solutions such as pay for him to take more art lessons and find him a job drawing cartoons for Disney in America.) Meanwhile in Hollywood land, everyone who ever deliberately traveled in time to WW2 and did anything at all about the war, seems to have invariably given Hitler ramjet drives and disruptor cannons for his planes, or such.
But I'm thinking, what if RL were a branch where something entirely different has happened. Namely, it's not hard to notice that Hitler had the luck to avoid an amazing list of plots against him, by either having an explosive device moved, cancelling a speech early, disallowing aides to a conference at the last minute, or having a specific train car of new SS uniforms bombed so the guy who wanted to kill him didn't have to come model them any more. So what if the folks with time machines actually repeatedly SAVED Hitler from all those plots?
Why, especially knowing he'd lose anyway? Good question. The only thing that comes to mind is that history might have gotten even worse if someone did kill him, instead of letting Germany be decisively defeated.
Feel free to post your own scenarios as to how an alt history where Hitler dies at some specific point could turn out less fun than the one with him. Or really any other reason to save him.
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