From the ideological perspective of preventing genocide, I think that going back in time to assassinate Hitler is absolutely defensible. Whether or not it would work is another question.

Have you ever read about The July 20 Plot?

Yes, I would go back in time and assassinate him because what he did to all those people was wrong and cruel. I think that someone should kill him the way he did the others. He should die a long painful death.

Now at this point my side on the issue probably is a bit clouded. Let's make something clear, I am in favor of political assassination at times of war. If there is a declared state of war and assassination of a single leader can shorten or prevent further fighting than I absolutely favor assassination. Thus Hitler was a prime target.

However assassination for purely political reasons, for example an uncooperative leader of a foreign nation, is not the place of outsiders. Let sovereign nations take care of their own problems I say.

if i could go back i would definitely assassinate hitler. what he did to all those people was wrong. maybe if it wasnt for him there would be no such thing as racism

Umm, he killed over 6 million people, and if I could go back and stop it, I think I would most definitely kill him so he couldn't do the mass destruction that he caused.

I would go back in time and assasinate Hitler because , if I was succesful in doing the assasination there could of been alot of great diferences in the history that Hitler did during his time

Yes, I would go back and blow his freaking brains out. Hitler caused so much pain and suffering for people and killed over 6 million Jews (not to mention the atrocities that were committed to those that survived) during his reign of terror.

If we really could go back and prevent all of this there's no reason we shouldn't. Give me the freaking M-16 and let me have at him.

Of course i would go back in time and assasinate him because all he did was cause destruction tp a race that didn't do anything to deserve it. Hitler was a bad person and he meant nothing but harm to the world.

I wouldn't call it an 'assassination'. if i had family members being killed because of one mans selfish and rediculous desires, i would join the army in first ranks and get as close to the blasted man as possible...if i had the opportunity you bet i take it.

yes I would do this even if it costs my life. I would at least save 11 million people. He killed 6 million jews and 5 million other people. Trust me on this, I took a camp about it. To really know how many 11 million people is do this. 1+1+1+1+1+1+1 11 million tmes million times

it is right to assassinate Hitler

I don't think assassinating Hitler would be a productive idea. At the time Italy and Japan has aspirations to gain control of large parts of the world as it is. Hitler aided them in their cause but they could still pose a threat without him.

Aside from that, the experiments conducted in concentration camps on the prisoners contributed heavily to modern medicine and science.

The best argument against going back in time and assassinating Hitler is that you know how it ended - Germany lost and Hitler blew his brains out. It cost forty, fifty million lives in total but how much may it have cost without Hitler?

Without Hitler, Germany may have remained weakened and unarmed as was intended in the Versailles Treaty. In this environment, and with a policy aim of spreading Communism worldwide, Stalin may have been able to mobilize the Read Army (as Germany mobilized the Whermacht) and sweep aside any opposition in its path (as Germany did in 1939-1942) but the Soviet Union would not have to fight a two-front war against the Soviet Union which chewed up its resources and allowed a knockout punch from the other side. Imagine Red Army troops marching under the Arc d'Triumph rather than German ones as the USSR stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Once the Soviets were in an unassailable position in Europe, the world would be divided in two as colony after colony fell into the Soviet orbit. Imagine just how much blood that would cost.

Stalin managed to kill over thirty million people before WWII even began. As has been said elsewhere, the US armed and mobilized in response to Hitler but maintained those forces to contain the USSR once Germany was defeated.

And that's just Stalin. Who knows who else may have shown up.

Now having been through that experience, we can now recognize (we hope) when it looks as though another Hitler may appear and take steps to contain them.

That said, I would definitely go back and put a bullet in the brain of any effective underling in the service of Hitler once the war had begun (Heydrich comes to mind)

i wouldn't have assassinated Hitler In the past if i was given the chance. The reason is not to prevent the mass killings nor would it be for a an ethical problem. simply because America would not have developed into the power country it is today without World War 2.