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Would you go back in time and assassinate Hitler?

Is political assassination an option?

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– MyPic Loudacris(774) Vote Up Vote Down
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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?

Posted 159 days ago
– MyPic pvtNobody(327) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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While you're reference is accurate, wikipedia is probably not the best source for any information.

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic madeingerman(169) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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Tend to generalize much?

Posted 153 days ago
– MyPic borme(514) Favored Vote Up Vote Down
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I agree Loudacris, if we could go back in time and capture or kill Hitler and prevent him from committing the atrocities that he did, it would be tough to defend a reason not to. However, I think that we all realize that this may be unrealistic; it's not as if the Allies didn't try to capture and/or kill him.

It's very similar to today's conundrum of finding and capturing or killing Osama Bin Laden. We are using every weapon and intelligence capability at our disposal to find him and bring him to justice (such as what happened with Sadaam), but we can't seem to find him. He's guarded by some very smart people who keep him on the move constantly, which is what they did with Hitler.

However, given the assumption that we could find him and assassinate him, I'm not sure how you could convince me it's not a good idea to stop him permanently.

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic nasadams(3) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 159 days ago
– MyPic Tamisan(437) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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So you'd go back and kill off everyone who was "wrong and cruel"? But to what degree? For instance, if you went back and killed off all those who killed others, well then you're a killer so you'd have to kill yourself. What about only those who were responsible for mutilation? There goes the Roman Catholic Church. Or maybe just those who believed in genocide? Then you'd have to kill every tribal, kingdom, or political leader who ever existed. Boy, you'll be a busy person.

Posted 152 days ago
– MyPic RevFred(310) Favored Vote Up Vote Down
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Agreed. How about we let the people of today learn from mankinds past mistakes.

Posted 149 days ago
– MyPic pvtNobody(327) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic jvega214(3) Vote Up Vote Down
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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

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic itscatfoo(4) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic reyz4(2) Vote Up Vote Down
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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

Posted 158 days ago
– MyPic DebateMan(392) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 157 days ago
– MyPic Time2Golf(255) Favored Vote Up Vote Down
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Good point. Take that freaking genocide inducing creep out and save millions of lives. You can't measure that in terms of economic productivity or GDP.

Posted 157 days ago
– MyPic damador04(8) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 152 days ago
– MyPic Swimmer(17) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 151 days ago
– MyPic 12345(7) Vote Up Vote Down
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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

Posted 121 days ago
– MyPic 12345(7) Vote Up Vote Down
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it is right to assassinate Hitler

Posted 121 days ago
– MyPic cribarrera(10) Vote Up Vote Down
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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.

Posted 159 days ago
– MyPic jwitter(77) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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Based on your logic, then, would you be willing to establish more concentration camps today, so that science and medicine could be advanced?

Posted 159 days ago
– MyPic cribarrera(10) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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No, I just think that the events that happened are all connected, and that we did gain something out of the horror, and from those findings we progressed even further. By altering time, we might not have had these.

Posted 157 days ago
– MyPic BLZBUB(4) Vote Up Vote Down
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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)

Posted 153 days ago