Hitler as a Baby

[TheDarkReaver]

Dodgy hair cuts seemed to be his trademark from a young age.

Other cool and rare pictures of well known people can be found here.

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver

Aaaah! He was pretty cute!


Erm...

[Selta]

That's a cool site.

[FL Knifemaker]

Someone needs to photchop a 'stache on him

[McHaven]

The real question is would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a child, if it meant WW2 would never happen?

[5StringBlues]

[TheDarkReaver]

Originally Posted by McHaven

The real question is would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a child, if it meant WW2 would never happen?

I would say...no. We got too many tech advances from it.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Originally Posted by McHaven

The real question is would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a child, if it meant WW2 would never happen?

Too many variables involved to say that killing one man would've stopped WW2.

[McHaven]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Too many variables involved to say that killing one man would've stopped WW2.

i agree, but as a hypothetical situation where we just simplify WW2 down to Hitler existing. Ignore the variables

[Deluge Of Sound]

My answer is probably still no. On a purely selfish level, both my grandfathers were involved in the war effort--I might not exist if they hadn't both been in The War.

On another level, I think that the Nazis serve and continued to serve an important historical role--both as a warning to overzealous nations, and as an example of what is and is not tolerated on the world stage.

Now, if your question was to erase The Holocaust, then my answer would be a resounding yes.

[stratovani]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Now, if your question was to erase The Holocaust, then my answer would be a resounding yes.

Then you'd be opening another can of worms. Without the Holocaust is there a State of Israel? What possible unintended consequences would there be to having an additional 6 million Jews in Europe? Would the British remain in control of Palestine? The questions and possibilities are virtually infinite. Fun to think about, though!

[TheDarkReaver]

Alternative time-lines hurt my brain!

However, they make for an excellent story backdrop in Jon Courtney Grimwood's Arabesque Trilogy.

[IconBasser]

that site was pretty cool!

and, man, I am REALLY creeped out by that picture of Hitler. My perceptions are conflicted by the innocence (of a baby) and the evil incarnate (of adult Adolph).

[TheDarkReaver]

Yeah, the picture of baby Adolf and the ones of Charles Manson and his family were the ones I found most interesting because of the conflict of perception.

[Thunderscreech]

Sean Connery. Enough said.

[TheDarkReaver]

Truly he is a sexy beast.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Originally Posted by stratovani

Then you'd be opening another can of worms. Without the Holocaust is there a State of Israel? What possible unintended consequences would there be to having an additional 6 million Jews in Europe? Would the British remain in control of Palestine? The questions and possibilities are virtually infinite. Fun to think about, though!

I'm aware of the other can of worms... no politics on TB, though.

[L-A]

Sure enough, that'd make a stunning cover.

[newbold]

Originally Posted by stratovani

Then you'd be opening another can of worms. Without the Holocaust is there a State of Israel? What possible unintended consequences would there be to having an additional 6 million Jews in Europe? Would the British remain in control of Palestine? The questions and possibilities are virtually infinite. Fun to think about, though!

Come on - Without the Holocaust there IS a state of Israel, as steps were already being taken to establish it in Palestine. Hitler was shipping Jews to Palestine until Britain stopped them, forcing them to be kept, unfortunately in concentration camps.

Many sources assert that the 'final solution' was shipping them out, not killing them. Of course, the final number of 6 million and the fact that Germany didn't just target Jews (it was more about a secret society/glass ceiling than about killing 'ethnically impure' people) are rarely examined closely when the issue comes up.

WW2 was awful on all sides, with the exception that the British POW camps set up in Canada treated the German POWs with respect instead of like animals.

If you put this forth as a political issue rather than a historical one, the discussion gets shut down and goes nowhere.

It's 2010. We should be past this by now.

[McHaven]

Originally Posted by newbold

Come on - Without the Holocaust there IS a state of Israel, as steps were already being taken to establish it in Palestine. Hitler was shipping Jews to Palestine until Britain stopped them, forcing them to be kept, unfortunately in concentration camps.

Many sources assert that the 'final solution' was shipping them out, not killing them. Of course, the final number of 6 million and the fact that Germany didn't just target Jews (it was more about a secret society/glass ceiling than about killing 'ethnically impure' people) are rarely examined closely when the issue comes up.

WW2 was awful on all sides, with the exception that the British POW camps set up in Canada treated the German POWs with respect instead of like animals.



If you put this forth as a political issue rather than a historical one, the discussion gets shut down and goes nowhere.

It's 2010. We should be past this by now.

America had plenty of POW camps as well. The one I'm most familiar with was in Hearne, Texas. Residents called it the Fritz Ritz. POWs were offered language classes, sport activities, and an a German musician unit was captured in Tunisia and gave concerts in Hearne for the locals. Pretty amazing how well they were treated. A number of the POWs later immigrated back to Texas.